Author Topic: iraqi sniper videos (Read 525 times)

Citabria · « **on:** October 20, 2006, 08:21:40 PM »

was looking at cnn.com and saw their insurgent snipers videoing shots on US troops.

it was unsettling to see your side losing from the enemies point of view. though ive seen many videos of US snipers popping the heads off of arabs with a 50 cal and got a good laugh, seems it all depends on your point of view.

I guess either way you look at it...
its a battlezone and if your sitting still on top of a humvee in a turret or behind some rocks (pick one) with your head poking out you are sitting duck to a good sniper.

mandingo · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2006, 08:36:22 PM »

yeah were getting our asse dkicked 4 shure

Yeager · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2006, 08:46:40 PM »

jeeze man....ogrish been posten those things for last few years, where you guys been?

I definately think the jig is up in iraq. Those people are butchering themselves up like thousand year pros on a hell binge. and remember kids, Islam is peace and christianity is teh devil (along with boosh).

ROC · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2006, 08:50:15 PM »

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yeah were getting our asse dkicked 4 shure

It's war, our boys die, but we are Far from getting slapped, much less our butts kicked.

Viking · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2006, 09:32:45 PM »

ROC, President Bush didn't seem to agree with you in his interview with ABC News where he agreed that the current situation in Iraq is comparable to the Vietnam War.

Neiher did Sir Richard Dannatt, the British Chief of the General Staff when he publicly recognized the abject failure of the Western intervention in Iraq.

Neither did Major General William Caldwell, the US military spokesman, when he publicly admitted yesterday that the two-month joint US-Iraqi drive to end the violence in Baghdad had to all intents and purposes failed.

All of this happed this month.

Citabria · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2006, 09:44:24 PM »

well about the win loose thing...

it is very similar to vietnam in that it is an insurgent guerilla war in iraq.

militarily you can stay their indefinitely and absorb steady daily casualties but if you want to accomplish somthing you need the backing and support of the population of the country you have invaded.

but iraq is already in the beggining stages of civil war which is most likely to become an all out sectarian civil war with the country splintering apart along baath sunni and kurd lines. the kurds are problem free for the most part up north. the US actually did rescue them from sadaam and they are quite happy with the US presence. the sunnis were repressed by the minority group baathists and both groups despise the US presence.

insurgent= fish
population=sea

the fish swims in the sea and the sea supports the fish.

when your only option for victory is to send a bunch of soldiers to convince a countries population that you are there for their own good and they are supposed to rally to your side... "winning hearts and minds"

well really who is fooling themselves or anyone else?

it dosnt really matter if its us or them or who is who when you think about it...

foriegners with guns patrolling your streets will create strife and animosity in any setting...

guerillas are a the inevitable result of a non native occupying force.

now back on topic... iraqi snipers...

Eagler · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2006, 09:52:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Citabria
now back on topic... iraqi snipers...

are a fact of war
the new slant to it all is video, alot of it, and will work in favor of our enemies as they can stomach the stuff much better than the average joe six pack and soccer mom ... regardless of the why we are there. we could be saving starving africans from drug crazed warlords and enough in ur face groove tube videos with US boys dropping dead and one side or the other of our political machine will rally to the "bring them home" cause ...

Yeager · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2006, 09:54:45 PM »

indeed, but let us now face this increasingly likely scenario: US forces draw down, current shi*ite led government faulters and the 12 major militias in Iraq seize power of their respective regions.

Then what?

RedRadr · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2006, 09:56:31 PM »

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Originally posted by Citabria

guerillas are a the inevitable result of a non native occupying force.

germany? japan? nothings inevitable..

ROC · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2006, 11:05:26 PM »

Just because the Pres is caving to political pressure of the hand wringers does not mean we are getting our butts kicked.

The guys I know over there are quite proud of what is going on, and greatly dissapointed with the "impression"

Kinda like Vietnam. Let politics run the war.

Anyone Honestly think that for One Minute, if the military was Allowed to go ballz out and Win, we couldn't? Oh, that would just be so mean, we can't do that.

Oh please.

FiLtH · « **Reply #10 on:** October 21, 2006, 12:13:30 AM »

When we pull out I hope we blow up every power station, poison every well, and destroy every hospital before we leave. It could be our way of saying thanks.

Viking · « **Reply #11 on:** October 21, 2006, 12:50:43 AM »

You sort of did that already

cav58d · « **Reply #12 on:** October 21, 2006, 01:41:22 AM »

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Originally posted by ROC
Just because the Pres is caving to political pressure of the hand wringers does not mean we are getting our butts kicked.

The guys I know over there are quite proud of what is going on, and greatly dissapointed with the "impression"

Kinda like Vietnam. Let politics run the war.

Anyone Honestly think that for One Minute, if the military was Allowed to go ballz out and Win, we couldn't? Oh, that would just be so mean, we can't do that.

Oh please.

Very true....We are in the situation we are in right now, because of the limitations we have put on ourself...This war could be won in a month, but WWII is in the past, and we will NEVER again fight an all out war

cav58d · « **Reply #13 on:** October 21, 2006, 01:42:38 AM »

I even have my doubts that we would respond to a nuclear attack, with our nukes.....If it's state sponsored then we better, but if Al Qaeda does, I doubt we would...i hope im wrong and it never happens to begin with

Obie303 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 21, 2006, 03:27:47 AM »

In the town I work for, Sturbridge MA, we had the wars first casualty to a sniper yesterday. Marine 2nd Lt. Joshua Booth. 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Actually it was more like an assassination. Booth was well liked by the Iraqi people in the reigon he was patrolling and he went out of his way to escort civilians through a dangerous part of the town. He was only in-country for a month.

Booth leaves behind a pregnant wife and an 18 month old daughter.

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to all of our servicemen and women who fight for our country. God bless them and keep them safe till they all come home.

Obie