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2003-08-27 Afghanistan

U.S., Afghan Forces Retake Mountain Pass

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-27 9:24:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Collect them? sprinle baco-bits on em and let the flies have em

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-27 9:43:48 AM|| 2003-8-27 9:43:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 D'oh! How about sprinkle? damn, I need some coffee

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-27 10:16:43 AM|| 2003-8-27 10:16:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank, did you perhaps mean spackle?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-8-27 11:11:16 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-8-27 11:11:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 spackle with Spam works as long as there's pork in it lol

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-27 11:15:03 AM|| 2003-8-27 11:15:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 When the Mujahadeem fought the Soviets in Afganistan they had Uncle Sam by their side. Now the little sheetheads want to take us on and they have, what, Pakistan, mafia, China maybe. RPGs can be a real pisser I'm sure, but they don't really match-up. Take hold where ever they are and shake the liv'n hell out of'm. Hot war.

Posted by Lucky 2003-8-27 12:09:13 PM|| 2003-8-27 12:09:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 A mountain pass would be an excellent place to do a fast-track trial on the Metal Storm.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-8-27 12:37:13 PM|| 2003-8-27 12:37:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 just like vietnam .fight to take the hill then leave it in a couple of days . They cant stay up there forever. It is cold and winter is coming.

Posted by steveerossa 2003-8-27 1:28:39 PM|| 2003-8-27 1:28:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 we've been in afghan for close to 2 years now. Still have only about 10,000 troops, a couple of dozen US combat deaths. After 3 years in Nam we had 500,000 troops and 40,000 combat deaths.

steverosa doesnt seem to have gotten the line - its IRAQ thats the new viet nam, not afghanistan. My suspicion is he's a plant by the hawkish side, to make the doves look stupid.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-8-27 2:21:24 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:21:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Air strikes? What we should do is lay lands mine in the passes the terrorists take. Seeing thier comrades mutilated and crying for help turned alot of Paks back when we first went in to Afghanistan.

Posted by Charles 2003-8-27 2:30:52 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:30:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Land mines are dirty, terror weapons when used in the fashion you advocate. In Vietnam, many of the VC mines were repurposed American weapons, especially mines.

American doctrine for mining is for them to be in well-organized, mapped deployment protecting strategic points.

Some prepostrously high percentage of American casualties in Vietnam were landmine-inflicted. There are better ways to wage war.

Posted by Mitch H. 2003-8-27 2:38:20 PM|| 2003-8-27 2:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The sky is the high ground.

Posted by Tresho 2003-8-27 4:00:31 PM|| 2003-8-27 4:00:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 odd, no mention of AC130's. The harriers and a-10's have limited dwell time, and Apaches have issues at high altitudes, IIUC. How high did they say these mountains are?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-8-27 4:10:00 PM|| 2003-8-27 4:10:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Winter is coming on? You mean the dreaded Afghan winter? It's frickin' August for cryin' out loud.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-8-28 3:12:30 AM|| 2003-8-28 3:12:30 AM|| Front Page Top

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