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2003-11-20 Iraq

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Posted by Dar 2003-11-20 4:32:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The man who shot Uday Hussein.....he was the bravest of them all.....

(Apologies to Burt Bacharach, Hal Davis, and Gene Pitney)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-20 4:44:05 PM|| 2003-11-20 4:44:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 John Wayne shot Uday?

No way. If Big John hits someone 17 times they are graveyard dead.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-20 5:21:51 PM|| 2003-11-20 5:21:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Uday's ability to survive 17 bullets sounds disturbingly like the Duke's ability to do the same in his movies. Good thing 101st used more bullets.

Posted by OminousWhatever 2003-11-20 5:55:32 PM|| 2003-11-20 5:55:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 the AK47 uses a high speed 30 cal bullet and I don't believe you can survive 17 bullets of it. Something is wrong here: either he wasn't hit 17 times or Uday was wearing body armor.

Posted by JFM 2003-11-21 1:59:33 AM|| 2003-11-21 1:59:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC AK fires a medium-velocity bullet that does minimal tissue disruption (at least in FMJ configuration); I remember reading some Fackler's articles about terminal effects of military rifles - the AK made the "cleanest" wound channels -, plus a review of a school spree-shooting, with AK lethality evaluated at 14% on small children (which corresponded to Viet Nam war datas). So, I guess it is possible to be hit 17 times (extremities?) and to survive.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-21 8:56:58 AM|| 2003-11-21 8:56:58 AM|| Front Page Top

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