Our 914 club member in Iraq, Anybody heard from him? Options

[tesserra]

There was a club member in Iraq that would chime in when he could.
As I remember he was in Fallujeha (sp?), where all the shity stuff is going on.
I don't remember his name but I have been thinking about him and what a tuff deal that would be.
Anybody hear anything?
Just hope he is safe.

George

[need4speed]

...I hate this weapon...)

What's wrong with it?

Isn't it aircooled? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

no- really, I'm interested in hearing what you don't like about the M249. I've never seen one in real life, let alone touched or fired one. But from time to time, I read or get into discussions about these kinds of things. I hear people make tons of criticisms over the m9, while others think it's great, and the m16 too, etc. I'm just interested in what you don't like about it.

. . .. Gotta finish the job.

Say what you will about the war, you all know where I stand on Iraq. But on this one point, I think we all have to agree. We cannot abandon these people now. Read up on your history of what happened in Afghanistan after the Soviets pulled out. (Read today that Dotsum broke with the Karzai govt. and has taken control of a northern city - essentially, Afghanistan is now in civil war as well).

I don't think that this Sadr guy is that serious a threat in the big scheme of things. (I'm not there dodging his thugs bullets tho. . . ) - if the US seriously commits as strongly as Bush talks tough, then there's no way this force, even with bald-faced Iranian backing, is going to deter the mission. It may delay it. But the biggest threat to freedom and democracy in Iraq, is the white-collar criminal who got us into this mess in the first place: Ahmed Chalabi (and his INC goons). I have no doubt that US forces can defeat Sadr - the tragedy is that we may have to apply force at a level that's going to get a lot of innocent civilians killed. But in the end, the Sunnis aren't going to side with Sadr in any organized fashion, and neither are the Kurds. Even Sistani has not come forward publicly supporting him. Sadr's a dead-man walking, and his thugs are too. I don't see a REAL civil war in Iraq happening until a few years after the "handover" - when Chalabi starts asserting more control, and pisses off the ethnic groups and minority factions.