We've got great billion dollar hi-tech and physical military strength, versus a bunch of antiquated sporadic low-tech hit and run sandal wearing fanatics.
I can not believe the degree of sickening and disgusting effectiveness the IED's are inflicting on our soldiers. How can a device so crude, equalize a war which the insurgence have no business competing???? SH*T.
God bless our troops, they should be home enjoying life and love.
Because the same media that reports about the IED's killing Soldiers are the same that reports about Courts martial for Marines that may have been in volved in killing Iraqi civilians. But never mind that insurgents, DAILY, kill Iraqi civilians with these "Non-Discriminant" IED's.
Because we are better than them, we have to walk on a higher moral path, and that is what truely evens the playing field. You don't see us setting up IED's and blowing them up by remote in hopes that an Insurgent may walk by. We COULD just bomb the entire cities to oblivion and the war would be over because eveyone is dead. But we are the good guys that have to drive Trucks around, and look for Ambushes, all the while endangering our soldiers lives in the process.
No, we don't use IEDs to blow people up by remote. However we have no problem dropping cluster bombs on them while flying at an altitude of 10 miles. I suggest you research the effects of cluster bombs and how we used them when this war began before you talk about anyone "walking on a higher moral path".
shareGet my facts straight? You need to review facts instead of pointing fingers on what you heard someone say to someone else about what they heard someone else say to what's his name.
Cluster bombs dropped from the air have killed 1 Iraqi civilian. That's right. ONE "1" civilian. Cluster munitions from artiliery have killed less than 600. One report says 375 and another says it's 200 higher, so I'll give the benefit and say 600 or less.
And the most gruesome of these attacks was on the road to Baghdad. They went through the town of Hillah. One family was hit when they attempted to go out of the Nader Neighborhood by looking for a Taxi on the major thoroughfare.
"When the bombing started, Abdul Jewad al-Timimi, 44, a disabled veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, decided to gather his wife and six children and clear out of Nader. He hoped to catch a taxi on a main road and get to his parents' house, 3 miles away."
This is the street that was attacked because Insurgents were using this same road to travel back to Baghdad. The ARTILLERY exploded and killed the 6 children that the father mistakenly lead into a war zone where there were already gunshots going off around them.
Yes, there are casualties in war, but the civilians are not our targets. Because we are kept to a higher standard than the insurgents. We abide by the Geneva Convention rules when the enemies that we are fighting do not. And we are bad mouthed when any civilian casualty is found because we are immediately accused of wrong doing.
Maybe I expect too much but, wouldn't you figure by now there is an IED sensory contraption that could read IED'S within at least 10 yards away?? If not, somebody make one....PLEASE.
shareSucks, doesn't it, to loose against these "lowlifes", when all the hollywood movies and army commercials and Tom Clancy books have told you otherwise. The mightiest army in the world, bleeded out by little brown people. When will we see the last fleeing enter a helicopter on a roof in the green zone...
A.B.
It's funny how you people refer to the insurgents, calling them lowlifes etc.
Do you guys really think you'd be any different if you're country were invaded?
I'm opposed to the war and the way the war is being fought from both sides, but don't try and take the moral high ground by looking down on these people who are fighting like anyone would.
"lowlifes" was in sarcasm quotes so its not my opinion ;)
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