You think up a title... "US tactics condemned by British officers "

[BugsBunny1078]

They do use technology to locate mortars or other artillery. You can't fire shells at American military without them being able to find you anymore.

If you're an Iraqi and someone near you is shooting mortars at American troops you would be pretty dumb to hang around.

 

[onelove]

you would be pretty dumb to hang around.

as the dead ones have been finding out

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
They do use technology to locate mortars or other artillery. You can't fire shells at American military without them being able to find you anymore.

If you're an Iraqi and someone near you is shooting mortars at American troops you would be pretty dumb to hang around.

And if the mortar was fired from in front of a house, hotel, school, etc. it wouldn't matter to you?

 

[beer]

What's the alternative, conjur? Sit there and let them pound you while you sit twidling your thumbs until they move into the clear?

I usually agree with you but now that we're in there (which we shouldn't be), we might as well treat it as what it is - it is a WAR. After seeing the video of fallujah I personally wanted it to become the next Dresden.

 

[arsbanned]

The alternative would be to not attack a sovereign nation for made-up reasons in the first place.
If the Iraqis attacked the U.S., I would do everything I could to fight them.
That is what is happening.
No excuses, this is Bush's doing.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: alchemize

Originally posted by: SuperTool

Originally posted by: beer
Women and children were cheering as they lynched the four contractors. And I have a feeling that events in this article are referring directly to fallujia. The US has been letting women, children, and old men leave during all daylight hours. Sounds like it's their own fault if they choose to stay.

Yeah, it's their own fault they didn't take their children and go for a walk in the desert for a week

Try mutilating 4 government employees in small town USA on live TV, then barricade and arm your town. See what response you get here. Or anywhere.

19 Mostly Saudis mutilated 3000 people including government employees on live TV and nothing happened to Saudi.
Some Fallujah residents mutilated 4 private security firm mercenaries and off we go to kill a few hundred Iraqis. This is TV driven war strategy. "American Idol" of sorts.
It's going to accomplish nothing in the long run.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
They do use technology to locate mortars or other artillery. You can't fire shells at American military without them being able to find you anymore.

If you're an Iraqi and someone near you is shooting mortars at American troops you would be pretty dumb to hang around.

And if the mortar was fired from in front of a house, hotel, school, etc. it wouldn't matter to you?

At any rate we can't allow them to use human shields. They must know that human shields dont stop our bombs and won't keep us from bombing. They won't bother with human shields if we don't allow it to work.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
They do use technology to locate mortars or other artillery. You can't fire shells at American military without them being able to find you anymore.

If you're an Iraqi and someone near you is shooting mortars at American troops you would be pretty dumb to hang around.

And if the mortar was fired from in front of a house, hotel, school, etc. it wouldn't matter to you?

At any rate we can't allow them to use human shields. They must know that human shields dont stop our bombs and won't keep us from bombing. They won't bother with human shields if we don't allow it to work.

Wow...the excusing and apologizing keeps digging you into a deeper and deeper hole, eh, Bugs?

"At any rate"? So, in your opinion, we could kill 1,000 or, heck, even 10,000 innocent civilians each day and you wouldn't care.

 

[NumbersGuy]

The Nazis formula would be to kill 10 civilians for each of their soldiers killed, later raised to 100 to 1, specially in the Balkans. So 600 for 4 mercs is 150:1, a new record.

Some of these operations unfortunately recall the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the destruction of Warsaw (not the same event), the Budapest uprising, the Chechnya war and the more recent Jenin affair.

This is not the usual company the US keeps or what it strives for.

If the US were runover, by say Martians trying to implant the Martian way, every American that could would be shooting at them.