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2006-08-30 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Humvees tendency to flip over would have been aggravated by adding a lot of bolt-on armor.

Still, six or eight months ago, I read (here) an account where after US forces tried for hours to recover their comrades from a flipped-over Humvee in a canal, the Iraqi army came by and took over the recovery opperation.

I'm sure the NYT carried the story, too.....

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-30 06:48|| 2006-08-30 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 In other words, those that screamed the military failed because the Hummers were not tanks are complicit.

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-30 06:49|| 2006-08-30 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 GOd bless them and their families.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-08-30 08:19|| 2006-08-30 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 In other words, those that screamed the military failed because the Hummers were not tanks are complicit.

Yep. Just like the screaming safety nannies who forced the auto industry to install passenger side airbags without enough testing resulting in infants being killed. No one pillors these twerps in front of cameras with the video records of their demands and then pictures of the consequences.

Posted by Grinter Snereter2038 2006-08-30 10:03|| 2006-08-30 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Grinter-
Sadly, their response would be that the military screwed it up and that it certainly wasn't their fault...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-08-30 11:00|| 2006-08-30 11:00|| Front Page Top

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