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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 02:22 AM Original message |
No wonder we can't win. We can't shoot... |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. Are you talking about U.S. troops? If so, that's really a cruel remark |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 02:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I am talking about poorly trained combat troops |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 02:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Oh please, it's hardly simple. Even if every last one of them were |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 03:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I was beimg facetious |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 10:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Oh please, why are some people so quick to pull that line? |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 10:51 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Do you have anyone you love fighting over there? What a smug |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. after reading other OPs by Tom, I can assure everyone that treestar is correct... |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 04:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. You are missing my point completely. The reason we are losing |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. fair enough cboy4... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. btw, both he and I LOVE everyone fighing over there for the US... |
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cboy4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Jefferson. How can you question my compassion in this thread? |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:52 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. well your anti-war and care about our FIGHTING troops, so that's good enough for me.... |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
4. according to squaddies(UK troops) I know |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 03:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Really? Carbine rounds? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 05:44 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The M-16 is not known for penetrationg power, but |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
38. The 5.56 NATO round is very good at penetrating |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 03:08 AM Response to Reply #38 |
44. would any of you ballistics experts care to respond to this?... |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 03:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
37. "Carbine rounds"... |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 03:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. That's true of any rifle round, |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 04:03 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Well, no...that's not entirely true. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 02:38 AM Response to Reply #39 |
42. You are quite right..."designed to" wouldn't be true of 5.56mm either... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 03:11 AM Response to Original message |
7. LOL, "let Allah figure it out" K&R... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 05:51 AM Response to Original message |
9. I think 'winning' in Iraq takes more than killing people over there. |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 10:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. you sure hit that target top dead center rman... |
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maine_raptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. Firepower |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 09:05 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. It's called fire superiority... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 08:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Yeah, history is fun isn't it? Let's start in that OTHER Civil War... |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. I've read that US troops in Iraq fire an average of 275,000 small arms rounds per day |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. it speaks volumes about profits though and even more about... |
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stanwyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. I can assure you that my son CAN shoot |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 06:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. In the Marines, I read a few months back that LACK OF PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT was a problem... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. and I'm VERY curious about modern training in URBAN COMBAT.... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
26. The M16 rifle isn't accurate past 50 yards |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:50 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. What a fucking lunatic! |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:51 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Oh, so YOU'RE part of the zioni$t communi$t conspiracy |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. 'Fraid so. You caught me. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 03:33 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. What an idiot. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 05:34 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. et tu, benEzra? |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 02:43 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Yeah, I just got back from my local Illuminati meeting... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 10:34 AM Response to Reply #43 |
47. One thing I MUST know about those Illuminati meetings |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
27. "Bring 'em home and let Allah figure it out." I like that. I like it a lot. |
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Kelly Rupert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. The problem with Iraq is not that we are inefficient at killing. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-12-06 08:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I know the OP, and I can tell you that he knows that intimately. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
36. All this talk has a lot of people taking "Can't Shoot" personally. |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 04:03 AM Response to Reply #36 |
45. Somehow I doubt |
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entanglement (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-13-06 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
40. This was a lost cause from the start - an unjust war of aggression |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-14-06 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
46. Paper doesn't shoot back n/t |
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