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Title: Thunder Run
Post by: SunTracker on January 31, 2005, 06:05:33 AM

I picked up a book at the airport yesterday, Thunder Run.  I was familiar with the term from the books about Vietnam I have read.  Well this one is about the capture of Baghdad by Abrams tanks.

I've always been a fan of tank combat, but this book is making me sick.  I've read a few chapters so far, and its telling first hand accounts of M1s rolling into Baghdad.  Apparently it caught the Iraqis by surprise, and all the Iraqis ordered their troops to attack the tanks.  Well all they had were Ak-47s, aging RPGs, and thousands of teenage conscripts.

The tankers said the conscripts were coming so close to the tanks that they could see the terrified look (on the iraqis' faces).  The tanks were blowing apart the Iraqis with 120mm, .50 cal, 7.62mm, and M-4 carbine rounds.

So if you want an unsanitized look at the war, check this book out.  Hard for me to be patriotic about killing kids.

Title: Thunder Run
Post by: Creamo on January 31, 2005, 06:23:31 AM

Certainly they didn't lose all the elite Iraq troops that invaded Kuwait?

Title: Thunder Run
Post by: SunTracker on January 31, 2005, 06:37:06 AM

No, they all died when they couldn't get medicine for 10 years.

Title: Thunder Run
Post by: Creamo on January 31, 2005, 06:43:43 AM

Well they should have invaded Canada then. Kuwait only has alot of oil. Told ya Saddam was a crappy leader.

Title: Re: Thunder Run
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 31, 2005, 08:18:10 AM

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Originally posted by SunTracker

So if you want an unsanitized look at the war, check this book out.  Hard for me to be patriotic about killing kids.

Would think it would be hard to feel patriotic about killing anyone.

Reguardles of age. So long as they were fighting, they were the enemy.
Isnt unusual that teenagers get used in war.

Near the end of WWII the Germans were using Kids and old men.
and many of our own soldiers had the same type misgivings about it.

Our own civil war was no different.

Not to mention Nam.

There was a military analyst for Fox (Retired Col.David Hunt I think)I saw that probably put it best.

At the outbreak of the invasion he said "The training is over this is the real deal now. From now on If its got a gun. you kill it"

Title: Thunder Run
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 31, 2005, 08:20:54 AM

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Originally posted by SunTracker
No, they all died when they couldn't get medicine for 10 years.

Hmmm wonder whos fault that was.
The Money to buy medicine was certainly there

Title: Thunder Run
Post by: Creamo on January 31, 2005, 08:27:49 AM

Don't feed Suntracker anymore. Transparent people on the BBS are sometimes considered "trolls" but I think he really believes himself, so let it go.

S! the Iraq children that defended the hordes of Bush tanks.