Oerdin's Iraq thread.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Why do you let the civilians keep one AK-47 per family? I can't figure out any legal use a civilian would have for an assault rifle. Letting them is calling for trouble. People could jump in and out of the guerilla at their own preferance.

And if their attitude turns really hostile, millions of angry unarmed civilians is much better than millions of angry civilians with assault rifles.

Very true . I never understood why they're allowed to keep their Kalashnikovs either.

[Lancer]

Ok, glad to see you got the stuff Oerdin We got dough enough for another one but I'll let you work your way through what you have first.

[Dis]

Yeah I don't think Iraqis should have assault rifles. If americans can't have them, I don't want Iraqis having them . They have more of a right to bear arms than americans That's just not right.

I can see allowing them to carry pistols and such. But assault rifles?

[Lancer]

Oerdin, did you prefer the Gallo Salami or the HF beef sticks? That Salami is a personal favorite and if you prefer it too I'll double up on it next time at the expense of the beef sticks.

Also, next go round expect Baby Bel cheese which is tiny rounds of Gouda, wax wrapped, bite sized, mmmmm....

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie



And what's an REMF? Those American abrevasions (sp) are killing me.

Rear Echelon Mother F*ckers.

The noncombat army types.

[Kropotkin]

Malajer, Ollie, malajer...

[Chemical Ollie]

It was malajer (REMFs) who manned the cannons that sunk Blücher with 3000 German soldiers heading for Oslo in WW2. No one else was available that morning, as the regular crew was on leave. But that's another topic.

[Kropotkin]

If I remember correctly, I think that the fact that the german kriegsmarine didn't think of those old guns as a threat at all also played some role in the process...

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Do you have those big, old-fashioned loadspeakers on the roof of your Hummer, like Blues Brothers in the movie?

We have four loudspeakers packed into one big unit which is mounted on the turret of our humvee. In addition we have a 600 watt amplifier in the vehicle, a minidisk player, a cassette player, a remote operating transmiter, and a microphone.

How do you know the translator doesn't set you up, and record something completely different onto the minidiscs?

We use multiple translators during a mission so hopefully one of them will be honest plus as added protection we mostly use US citizens instead of locals especially on important missions.

Didn't you try to sleep in the Hummer when you waited for the "go" order? 1-2 hours could do a miracle. But I guess the delay was not expected?

I should have but I kept expecting them to be ready at any minute and I didn't want to be groggy when we left.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
Why do you let the civilians keep one AK-47 per family? I can't figure out any legal use a civilian would have for an assault rifle. Letting them is calling for trouble. People could jump in and out of the guerilla at their own preferance.

And if their attitude turns really hostile, millions of angry unarmed civilians is much better than millions of angry civilians with assault rifles.

I agree it would be better to disarm them but trying to do so would likely turn most of the pro-Coalition people against us. EVERYONE in this country has an AK-47. Saddam gave them away to everyone prior to the war so they could act as a citizens militia though most of them simply turned into armed thugs who looted and robbed at will. Now everyone feels they need an AK-47 for personal protection thus the policy is each house may have one AK-47 and 30 rounds of normal nonarmor piercing ammo. Anything more is considered stock piling and is illegal plus any other military weapons are strictly illegal (though Saddam flooded the country with those as well).

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lancer
Oerdin, did you prefer the Gallo Salami or the HF beef sticks? That Salami is a personal favorite and if you prefer it too I'll double up on it next time at the expense of the beef sticks.

Also, next go round expect Baby Bel cheese which is tiny rounds of Gouda, wax wrapped, bite sized, mmmmm....

Hmmm, let me nibble on a little of both and I'll get back to you.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Oerdin


We have four loudspeakers packed into one big unit which is mounted on the turret of our humvee. In addition we have a 600 watt amplifier in the vehicle, a minidisk player, a cassette player, a remote operating transmiter, and a microphone.

Next time there are insurgents in the area, just play Mozart or something. That should put end to that.

[pchang]

Rap and Hip Hop

I believe rap and hip hop were the preferred weapons against Mr. Noriega.

[SpencerH]

Given the amount of time it took to get that cluster**** going I'm amazed you found anything. They were probably moving the heavy weapons out the back doors while laughing at the chaos.

[Auntie H]

Clearly Lancer has far better shelf stable cheese than Auntie H! I thought the gouda in wax required a fridge!