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2003-02-28 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-02-28 10:25 am|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OH! I thought the headline read:
"Iraqi army DEFECATING"

Posted by John 3/1/2003 12:45:14 AM|| 3/1/2003 12:45:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Naw, the digging in of tanks is actually a pretty common tactic, we ran into it quite a bit during the first gulf war.

-DS
"the horns hold up the halo"

Posted by DeviantSaint 2003-02-28 10:19:08|| [www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2003-02-28 10:19:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Sammy claimed the credit for that piece of brilliance in a speech he gave on the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Kuwait. I think that was also the first time he publicly claimed victory in Gulf War I.

As further evidence that he's a natural-born military genius, he recently told his tank unit commanders that they should have machineguns mounted on their tanks.

Posted by Fred 2003-02-28 10:36:08|| 2003-02-28 10:36:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Unfortunately, parking tanks in a mosque is now a common tactic as well.

Posted by Jon 2003-02-28 11:01:40|| 2003-02-28 11:01:40|| Front Page Top

#5 If entire companies/brigades begin to desert on the Northern front, it will mean we don't need Turkey at all.

Posted by mhw 2003-02-28 11:28:54|| 2003-02-28 11:28:54|| Front Page Top

#6 There also are reports that Saddam's henchmen have issued orders to commanders to shoot any deserters they can catch.

But who is going to shoot the commanders when they surrender?

That's a rediculously easy question to answer, the Russians answered it decades ago.

Saddam very likely has "political officers" in units he does not trust, officers who don't command, they watch the commanders, with orders to shoot the commanders in the event of attempted surrender or betrayal.

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-02-28 14:33:11|| 2003-02-28 14:33:11|| Front Page Top

#7 OH! I thought the headline read:
"Iraqi army DEFECATING"

Posted by John 2003-03-01 00:45:14|| 2003-03-01 00:45:14|| Front Page Top

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