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2006-03-29 Afghanistan
Taliban say Afghan offensive is on, 22 dead
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Posted by tipper 2006-03-29 01:54|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Welcome to the new Chechnya

Posted by 12234 2006-03-29 03:26||   2006-03-29 03:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Dear fuckwad, you forgot to mention the word 'quagmire'
Posted by Howard UK 2006-03-29 03:55||   2006-03-29 03:55|| Front Page Top

#3 roflmao - new chechnya - oh thats just the best one i've heard yet. Whole divisions destroyed, the cities turned to rubble, the sky red with fire, Quagmire!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for providing me such such a good laugh 12234, really thankyou - cheered me up a great deal on this cold morning. Please can you share more of your wisdom with us, we need more 'know nothing armchair generals' like yourself to provide our amusement here at Rantburg.
Posted by ShepUK 2006-03-29 05:59||   2006-03-29 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Dang, it's either the Brutal Afghan Winter(tm), or the Spring Offensive(tm)... what a country... I wonder what's due to happen in the summer and fall.

As for Chechnya, well... Chechnya is an another front where the jihadis got and get their *ss throughouly kicked by a yet out-of-shape russian army (and where the locals suffer way more than in Iraq or Afghanistan, if only through the brutality and corruption of the occupiers); how did this turn into a victory for the Lions Of Islam, I don't know.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-29 06:00||   2006-03-29 06:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Chechnya? No wait ... I thought it was Vietnam. Oh the Humanity! We're in for it now folks! The new new quagmire! The vaunted Taliban "spring offensive." Can't wait to see all those 'antiwar' protesters ... again.
Posted by Happy 88mm 2006-03-29 06:54|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-03-29 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, let's see if I get the latest chain:

Iraq was going to be the next Vietnam.

Then Afghanistan wasn't going to be another Iraq, it was going to be the next Vietnam.

Then it was "Iraq won't be another Afghanistan", it was going to be the next Vietnam.

Now, Afghanistan's going to be the next Chechnya?
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-29 07:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-29 07:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Talking to my SOF buddy now who was in this battle, he says at least 50-60 talibanies whacked. He says all enemy casualtie are always underestimated.
Posted by Crater Unerelet3613 2006-03-29 11:51||   2006-03-29 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 he says at least 50-60 talibanies whacked

First week of the new spring offensive, and they've already lost 10% of the new trainees? At this rate that Mullah is going to have to cross the border his very own self pretty soon. Well done, gentlemen!
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-29 11:55||   2006-03-29 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Per my buddy, theres a lot more left. He says the Fit is going to hit the shan this spring/summer. Its gutcheck time.

Side note, there is another battle going on right now at another FOB, but he has no info other than bullets are still flying.
Posted by Crater Unerelet3613 2006-03-29 12:03||   2006-03-29 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 More targets for Our Boys? Happy hunting! (I won't bother to say, "Stay safe," since he certainly doesn't need good advice from me... and he's/they've already got my prayers, for what that's worth.) Very good news, Crater Unerelet3613 -- soonest started, soonest ended for the bad guys.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-29 12:21||   2006-03-29 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 What? Cancun was booked? The Tali are dying to be offensive this spring.
Posted by Captain America 2006-03-29 12:25||   2006-03-29 12:25|| Front Page Top

#12 No...It's Viet-nya. (what a maroon). Another LLL-pussy who has never served a day in the military writing from his laptop hiding behind his Mommy's skirt.

Have her wipe your nose and your little behind.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-03-29 12:56||   2006-03-29 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Give the troll credit. At least he/she/it picked some other place than Vietnam. Vietnam is SO 2004....
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-29 14:58|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-03-29 14:58|| Front Page Top

#14 The Bush Crime Family do NOT want to win the wars. They want troops in Muslim countries to convert occuped peoples to christianity. They also want the oil companies to rule. if you want to know where I get the truth: I read Noam Chomsky. End the USRaeli war on peace.
Posted by Honest Truth Testifyer 2006-03-29 15:59||   2006-03-29 15:59|| Front Page Top

#15 HTT appears to be one of those who fled to Canada to avoid the Black Helicopters
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-03-29 16:12||   2006-03-29 16:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Honest Truth Testifyer - You read Chomsky?

You poor demented bastard!
Posted by 3dc 2006-03-29 16:13||   2006-03-29 16:13|| Front Page Top

#17 Dear Honest Truth Testifyer,

If you really believe that you get the truth from reading Noam Chompsky, I have a great deal on some Enron stock for you.
Posted by usmc6743 2006-03-29 16:14||   2006-03-29 16:14|| Front Page Top

#18 End the USRaeli war on peace.

*laughs* Er...yeah! Cuz we all know how "peaceful" the Middle East would be left to its own devices!
Posted by Crusader 2006-03-29 16:17||   2006-03-29 16:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Crater, glad to here your buddy is giving out some good info. I'm in fire service and lost alot of friends/brothers on 9/11. The biggest gripe at the house is we have no idea if we are paying back these mf's for the big whole in Manhatten and 3,000 dead. Any word on enemy casualties? I need something for these guys to grab onto. Enemy kia in either Iraq or Afganistan?

Thanks, Brian
Posted by Rightwing 2006-03-29 17:11||   2006-03-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

#20 HTT, don't forget the /sarcasm tag. Otherwise folks will think you a slobbering lunatic posting nonsense like that. Here, let me demonstrate ...

/sarcasm
Posted by kirk 2006-03-29 18:00||   2006-03-29 18:00|| Front Page Top

#21 HTT appears to be one of those who fled to Canada to avoid the Black Helicopters

HTT is posting from a Springfield IL addy. Guess they don't do sarcasm well there.

Meanwhile our initial troll posted from Canuckistan. Explains the 'Chechnya' reference.
Posted by Pappy 2006-03-29 18:30||   2006-03-29 18:30|| Front Page Top

#22 "Occuped peoples"? Sounds serious...
Posted by tu3031 2006-03-29 18:40||   2006-03-29 18:40|| Front Page Top

#23 RW,

enemy KIA's just during one part of OP STEEL CURTAIN near Sedat (syrina border) last Nov - at least 200. There were a lot of body parts so I guess it was hard to get a real accurate count. I hope this cheers up your smoke eating brethren.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-03-29 18:41||   2006-03-29 18:41|| Front Page Top

#24 Especially for us Preoccupied People. We're busy.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-03-29 18:45|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-03-29 18:45|| Front Page Top

#25 aww crap - I meant "syrian" border. I fat fingered it again. I will counsel myself accordingly later.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-03-29 18:45||   2006-03-29 18:45|| Front Page Top

#26  I will counsel myself accordingly later.

Please do so with a Pabst longneck. You deserve it, friend. Thank you for all of the forward observation. Good hunting.
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-29 19:19||   2006-03-29 19:19|| Front Page Top

#27 Ima hate to be picky, but that Snarkie should be quad left to grab the eye.
Posted by 6 2006-03-29 19:31||   2006-03-29 19:31|| Front Page Top

#28 Where is .com?
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-03-29 20:11||   2006-03-29 20:11|| Front Page Top

#29 This guy posts pics of our boys in Afghanistan:
http://stupidrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/

I don't have any more information on KIA, but my buddy says that DoD usually under reports those numbers. Anyway, my buddy told me story about this dog (a picture of her is on that website). This dog is like a mascot at this camp and a couple of weeks ago the taliban mortored the place and the dog got wounded. Apparantly about a dozen Tali's got pretty close. Well anyway some of our boys located them and shot them to hell. He didn't know how many there were, guestimates a dozen. Anyway, they tagged about 6-8 of them. He also said that some of them were so shot up that they were missing limbs. Don't mess with the dog.
Posted by Crater Unerelet3613 2006-03-29 20:24||   2006-03-29 20:24|| Front Page Top

#30 the dog has higher worth
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-03-29 21:05||   2006-03-29 21:05|| Front Page Top

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