Holy ****! (Iraq) Helo shot down, up to 35 aboard, 20+ casualties

[Kropotkin]

Meanwhile, I've found this 'funny' anecdote from the msnbc website:
"A month ago an Iraqi citizen approached some U.S. soldiers, offering to sell a shoulder-held SA-7 surface-to-air missile, the kind that can be use to shoot down commercial airliners. When the soldiers offered the man $250, he drove back with a truckload of missiles and collected a payment of $40,000. He told the GIs that he would have brought more but he couldn’t fit them all into his truck."

A SA-7 being the most likely weapon used against the downed chopper.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Meanwhile, I've found this 'funny' anecdote from the msnbc website:
"A month ago an Iraqi citizen approached some U.S. soldiers, offering to sell a shoulder-held SA-7 surface-to-air missile, the kind that can be use to shoot down commercial airliners. When the soldiers offered the man $250, he drove back with a truckload of missiles and collected a payment of $40,000. He told the GIs that he would have brought more but he couldn’t fit them all into his truck."

A SA-7 being the most likely weapon used against the downed chopper.

So, we tell him we'll buy him a bigger truck too.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
... and if they are not so lucky, they'll just pop up again as soon as the US Army leaves.

30,000 troops in one city will do a fairly good job of securing it and shutting it down. They won't take a **** without us knowing when, where and what color. And by the time we left, they wouldn't have anything left to fight us with. Turn it in and sell it to us, we'll buy, **** with us, and we'll take it and arrest your asses. Resist, and you're one dead mother****er.

[Kropotkin]

Ask the IDF, they have been up to that kind of jobs for decades.

[Kuciwalker]

And have been failing miserably.

[Kropotkin]

I know! Lets build a wall around the sunni triangle!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Ask the IDF, they have been up to that kind of jobs for decades.

They haven't had the kind of manpower available, and have an issue of porous national borders and smuggling that we don't have.

[Kropotkin]

They don't need to smuggle things in, yet.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Our aim should be to create that need, by massive search and secure operations to rid them of the means of significant resistance.

[Kropotkin]

Then you'd need both those extra troops you talked about to do search-operations and troops to guard the borders.

[HershOstropoler]

"porous national borders"

No porous Iraqi borders?

[Kropotkin]

Only the ones against Saudi arabia, Iran and Syria.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
Only the ones against Saudi arabia, Iran and Syria.

None of which are particularly convenient to the Sunni triangle for purposes we're interested in.

[HershOstropoler]

They'll find their way.

[Kropotkin]

Aha, so you don't think the sunni triangle has porous borders?