6 British Soldiers killed in Iraq

[Agathon]

Re: Re: 6 British Soldiers killed in Iraq

Originally posted by Cruddy

Resistance forces generally don't operate in cities at the start of hostilities.

Never a truer word was spoken.

Wait until the resistance has a name and then you'll know that the trouble is really starting.

Any candidate names? Here's mine:

"The George W Bush Appreciation Society"

"The Committee to de-Elect the President"

[DanS]

Unfortunately, Bush and Wolfie want to prove they know more than Shinseki and other professionals

Hey, since when did you like Shinseki?

[Cruddy]

Agathon, total number Brit casualties lost to Iraqi fire up to capture of Baghdad = 8.

Add six more to that and you can see we're not exactly in the throes of panic over them.

They are doing what they are paid to do. Getting shot at and returning it 10 fold. They're not conscripts, they're volunteers - and the few (5?) who had weren't happy about the Iraq War were lifted out before it kicked offf.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Agathon, total number Brit casualties lost to Iraqi fire up to capture of Baghdad = 8.

Add six more to that and you can see we're not exactly in the throes of panic over them.

They are doing what they are paid to do. Getting shot at and returning it 10 fold. They're not conscripts, they're volunteers - and the few (5?) who had weren't happy about the Iraq War were lifted out before it kicked offf.

That's not what worries me. If this is indeed the beginning of a lengthy and popular resistance then there will be more deaths (I don't care whose) and that may make the overall situation worse.

[PLATO]

A resistance significant enough to pose a large threat would almost have to be state sponsored. Undoubtedly this sponsorship would be exposed. Given GW's trigger finger, the results could be disastorous for the sponsor nation. More likely you will continue to see loosly organized groups conducting random attacks for some time. The establishment of self governance should lessen, but not eliminate them

[Cruddy]

As I understand it, troops involved were 1st Para helping train Iraqis as police.

Maybe target wasn't the Brits but the "collaborators".

Yep, definitely 100 miles outside of Basra - out of the Sh'ia area entirely.

[Dis]

turn Iraq over to the U.N. dammit!

this is out of control.

[Lord Merciless]

The decision to disband the Iraqi army without severance pay definitely pushed many Iraqis over the edge. If only 1% out of the 400,000 decides to go extreme, we suddenly have to face 4,000 guerillas with lots of weapons and military trainings.

[C0ckney]

yeah well we saw how well their weapons and military training served them in the war itself...

and gegap, i think you underestimate the british public, while loss to our forces is tragic, 6 deaths is hardly going to make people want to call the whole thing off.

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by C0ckney
yeah well we saw how well their weapons and military training served them in the war itself...

It's harder to kill Americans in wars.

[Dis]

but easier to kill americans when not in war

[Cruddy]

Only real cure to the problem is an economically viable Iraq which can mind it's own business.

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Only real cure to the problem is an economically viable Iraq which can mind it's own business.

That means holding out until such thing becomes a reality.

Pulling out just because there are casualties is not an option.

[Dis]

yes but a slow integration of U.N. peacekeepers is a viable option.

We could slowly, and I stress slowly, turn over control of Iraq to the U.N. peacekeepers.

[C0ckney]

why would that make a difference, it would still be the foriegn troops in iraq, which is after all what the iraqis are objecting to. although the iraqis may find the UN a little more acceptable, do you honestly think that the hardliners wouldn't attack them as well?

the only difference would the fact that we'd be replacing the best armies there are in the world with a mish-mash of blue helmets tied up in red tape.