Insurgents Counter U.S. Moves in Iraq

[IChing]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About as quickly as the U.S. military finds a way to thwart insurgents' roadside bombs and other methods of attack, the insurgents counter with a new move of their own.>>>.snip

Brooks said the insurgents will plant false bombs - sometimes even with real blasting caps - and then study how U.S. forces respond. That is a classic technique for developing countermeasures, or, as Rumsfeld described the insurgents' method, "going to school on us."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ_ATTACKS?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Does anyone mention the tons of high explosives that went missing this past summer because they were not secured by US forces?

[jayfish]

1. Rule #1:...

No one mentions shit that will tarnish the glow of this great war.

Jay

[okieinpain]

2. Rule #2: see rule number 1

[rodeodance]

3. those stolon stashes have really been off the radar screen since Kerry

talked of them at the end of the campaign.

[screembloodymurder]

4. My friends son is over there dismantling bombs

God help him. Seems like the real Patriots all end up dead.

[Inland]

5. Real patriots die, and Bush and Cheney live forever.

And make a mint. No justice.

[Sterling]

10. My friends does that. They don't dismantle the blow them up.

I was worried about my friend but he explained that guys that do his job are very protected and they don't do it with their hands like you would imagine. Still any job over there right now is not safe and has to suck worse than I can imagine.

[IChing]

6. going to school

The UN's nuclear watchdog has told the Security Council of the theft of nearly 350 metric tons of high explosives from a military complex in Iraq. 770,000 lbs of very high explosive is a lot to use, one oz. will take out a tank.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3950493.stm

I find it strange that Rummy's answer was the rebels were. "going to school on us"
like it was a school prank, like our torture jails.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Rummy is a racist little git.

Iraqis aren't the "stupid little ragheads" rummy & his neocons figured on.

[NNN0LHI]

7. That is what happens when there are 25 millions sets of eyes...

...watching every move of the foreigners who only have 150,000 sets of eyes. Even the best military in the world can't beat that. Its a numbers thing.

Don

[bemildred]

9. "It's eeerily like they had human intelligence ..." nt