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2004-02-06 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-02-06 9:14:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Battle of Debka pass?????

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-2-6 10:17:13 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:17:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 31 Americans and 80 Iraqi Peshmerga troops, aided by Navy fighter bombing runs guided by Air Force combat air traffic controllers
Somebody say jointness?

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-6 10:34:38 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:34:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Company-strength (111) dismounted infantry--with a bit of air support--stops a mounted attack by an armored brigade.

These guys are good.

Posted by Mike 2004-2-6 10:40:34 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:40:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The guys they were fighting were pretty bad, but it's still impressive.

Posted by Hiryu 2004-2-6 10:47:29 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:47:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sure, the iraqis are Keystone Kops, but they did have tanks, aks, rpgs, and everything else that can put out lead. And come on, it's an ENTIRE FREAKING BRIGADE! Thats 111 guys taking on 4500! How many rounds did they send out trying to kill a company?

Of course, the iraqi mutts learned the same thing the taliban and soddis learned in afghanistan: the only thing that keeps U.S. troops from dealing incredible death and destruction upon you is restraint. Once the gloves come off, you are in a world of shit.

Props to joint operations and SF for doing the job and doing it well.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-2-6 11:23:02 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:23:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Its a trick! There are two of them!" (from an old joke..).

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-6 11:54:16 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:54:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 CrazyFool, what's the rest of that old joke? (it's older than me, probably)

Posted by (lowercase) matt 2004-2-6 12:10:11 PM|| 2004-2-6 12:10:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The joke.... (This gets edited and recycled for each conflict. This version is from Afghanistan)

A large group of Taliban soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune....

"One US soldier is better than ten Taliban"

The Taliban commander quickly sends 10 of his best soldiers over the dune, whereupon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes then ssilence. The voice then call out.....

"One US soldier is better than one hundred Taliban"

Furious, the Taliban commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune

and instantly a huge gunfight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence. The voice calls out again....

"One US soldier is better than one thousand Taliban"

The enraged Taliban commander musters one thousand fighters and sends them across the dune. Cannons, rockets and machine gun fire ring out as a huge battle is fought. Then silence.

Eventually one wounded Taliban fighter crawls back over the dune and with
his dying words tells his commander..... "Don't send any more men....it's a trap....there's two of them

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-6 12:25:03 PM|| 2004-2-6 12:25:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Not everything, though, went according to plan, Antenori acknowledged, noting that a Navy bomb mistakenly killed a group of Kurdish soldiers gathered around a disabled T-55 tank.

Someone might wanna create some sort of all-clear signal for Kurds that don't understand English and tell them not to venture out until it's given....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-2-6 2:56:56 PM|| 2004-2-6 2:56:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 It's still a good joke.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-6 3:21:01 PM|| 2004-2-6 3:21:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 too bad about the Kurds. It seems that they are good allies and warriors.

Posted by B 2004-2-6 10:12:59 PM|| 2004-2-6 10:12:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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