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2007-04-29 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2007-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That's what it takes. Lenient, aggressive ROE's and a take-no-prisoner attitude.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-04-29 00:17|| 2007-04-29 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 No fair.

Posted by Danking70 2007-04-29 00:37|| 2007-04-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Tales like this just warm the cockles of one's heart. Great shooting lads. Mincemeat is always a favorite dish whenever Muslims are involved.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-04-29 00:39|| 2007-04-29 00:39|| Front Page Top

#4 You just see a big dust cloud where the person used to be

Works for me. Good hunting, troops!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-29 01:10|| 2007-04-29 01:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Coalition attacks on mistakenly identified targets here, as in Iraq, have left dozens of civilians dead and wounded and can act as a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists.

Oh, horseshit. Facts, please? How many of the unintentional kills of non-combatants have involved enemy war crimes (treachery, deliberate endangerment of non-combatants - uh, they're actually very well-established war crimes, guys, go look it up)? Oh, that's right - 100% of them.

So what he MEANT to write was that "deliberate terrorist use of civilians as shields - a grievous war crime - has in limited cases resulted in air attacks killing non-combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan". No kidding - this is exactly what a literate, reasonable journalistic dispatch would sound like in reference to this issue. Imagine the difference in public attitudes if literate, informed reporting like this were the norm.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-04-29 02:40|| 2007-04-29 02:40|| Front Page Top

#6 ~~Don't~~ fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Cigars all around, boys!!

Posted by smn 2007-04-29 03:33|| 2007-04-29 03:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Take no prisoners because if you do it will allow the Dhimms the chance to invent new rights for them.

Posted by Lemuel Shaiter3417 2007-04-29 05:02|| 2007-04-29 05:02|| Front Page Top

#8 The attack, and four other missions against suspected Taliban compounds, are clearly effective, but the stakes are high. Coalition attacks on mistakenly identified targets here, as in Iraq, have left dozens of civilians dead and wounded and can act as a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists.

Just more MSM propaganda camouflaged as reporting. It's no wonder the editorialist who wrote this crap is named Chamberlain.

Posted by Lemuel Shaiter3417 2007-04-29 05:07|| 2007-04-29 05:07|| Front Page Top

#9 commanders must hope that the Taliban do not get their hands on the weaponry that has made life so perilous for pilots in Iraq,

The ISI is probably working hard to ship anti-aircraft missiles to the Taliban right now...

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-29 07:16|| 2007-04-29 07:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Lessons as old as warfare. Never turn your back on the enemy. Calvary will chop up infantry in the open. Talibs should read more than the Koran.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-04-29 08:14|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-04-29 08:14|| Front Page Top

#11 ~~Coalition~~ attacks on ~~mistakenly identified~~ fully identified dozens of civilians dead and wounded ~~and can act as a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists.~~ without Muslims caring about it and while MSM do their best to air colalition's unwanted collateral damage and silence Jihadist savagery.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-29 08:22|| 2007-04-29 08:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Stories like this really make my day. More please! Preferably with video of beareded mouth-breathers being shredded by machine-gun fire.

Posted by Sonar 2007-04-29 08:28|| 2007-04-29 08:28|| Front Page Top

#13 After the turn of the century
in the cold blue skies over Helamnd See
Came a roar and a thunder not recently heard
Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird
Up in the sky, a Jooo in a plane
Avner Greenburg was his name
14 men tried, and 14 men died
Now ~~they're~~ ~~buried~~ vaporized together on the countryside.

/Royal Guardsmans
yeah I'm that old, sorry about the earworm

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-29 08:58|| 2007-04-29 08:58|| Front Page Top

#14

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-29 09:58|| 2007-04-29 09:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Them boys just don't know how to play this game .

Posted by Matt 2007-04-29 12:04|| 2007-04-29 12:04|| Front Page Top

#16 It's elk and sitting duck season in Helmand!

More like eel and slimeballs, but that's ok - as long as the talislimes are the ones dying.

I still think we're missing a major weapons system in this war. I know we got shredded for using napalm in Vietnam, but the da$$$$ stuff works. Hit a bunker with napalm, and it doesn't matter that fifteen people are inside - they're dead. Don't use it in towns and villages, but when we catch the slimeballs out in the open, fry them. It also keeps the idiots from hauling away their dead and giving them "hero's burials" (who wants to haul away 140lbs of overcooked meat?). We are being far too "nice", and it's costing us casualties.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-29 14:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-29 14:13|| Front Page Top

#17 this the way it should always be done

Posted by sinse 2007-04-29 14:14|| 2007-04-29 14:14|| Front Page Top

#18 I like the way the talibunnies got busy puting on burkhas as soon as the gunships showed up.

Oh great lions of Islam!

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-04-29 14:20|| 2007-04-29 14:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Excellent. I'm with sinse: this is the way it should always have been done.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-04-29 14:28|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-04-29 14:28|| Front Page Top

#20 Ptah hows that dang fire doing? If we get a wind from the NE it's bad biz.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-29 14:42|| 2007-04-29 14:42|| Front Page Top

#21 the tallest man in the group, struggled to pull what appeared to be a burqa over his head.

Proof positive.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-29 16:52|| 2007-04-29 16:52|| Front Page Top

#22 "Stop, you would'nt hit a wimmin with a child!"
"No, I'd hit her with automatic weapon fire."
To paraphase Walt Kelly

Posted by bruce 2007-04-29 16:59|| 2007-04-29 16:59|| Front Page Top

#23 Not enough killing. 1200 sound better.

Posted by Enver Angaiter1337 2007-04-29 17:15|| 2007-04-29 17:15|| Front Page Top

#24 So where's the gun/ copilot camera footage of the "lions of i-slam" getting their Burkas on?

Would be a live Leak hit!

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-29 17:57|| 2007-04-29 17:57|| Front Page Top

#25 Re #6: "DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES!"
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Revolutionary War ancestor of Redd Foxx

Posted by borgboy2001 2007-04-29 18:55|| 2007-04-29 18:55|| Front Page Top

#26 Old Pat,
I heartily agree. Napalm has proved it's usefulness Very effective for mass attacks as Talibuns frequently use. Good for caves. And, along the same lines, don't forget Flame Tracks. Beautiful sight. FF'd Muslims at 150 yards. The effect on the enemy is devastating. Once they see their buds cooked alive and receive a whiff of the odor, they never forget.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-04-29 19:25|| 2007-04-29 19:25|| Front Page Top

#27 Once they see their buds cooked alive and receive a whiff of the odor, they never forget.

Seeing as how scorched humans are supposed to smell like roast pork, there could be a double payoff in terms of disincentive and uncleanliness. Even if there wasn't, just like with fuel-air bombs, napalm and taliban were meant for each other.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-29 21:14|| 2007-04-29 21:14|| Front Page Top

#28 Accusations of 'Cold Blooded Murder' by Murtha in 5... 4... 3...

Apologies from the State Department as well...

BTW: Good shooting!

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-04-29 21:16|| 2007-04-29 21:16|| Front Page Top

#29 LOL BorgBoy

/Fred Geee (the gee is for good 'un) Sanford

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-29 21:36|| 2007-04-29 21:36|| Front Page Top

#30 Burning flesh is something that you NEVER forget. It is very nasty. That being said, I think that napalm would be a good weapon against concentrations of Taliban. Would get the message across.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-04-29 22:58|| 2007-04-29 22:58|| Front Page Top

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