Sorry, did I need the sign?

Post #232,192 by rcareaga 11/2/05 6:19:39 PM Reply	Sorry, did I need the sign? I suspect that the Iraqi resistance is getting better kill numbers from their IEDs than we are with our bullets (250,000 shots:1 expired bad'un; see above). cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #232,194 by hnick 11/2/05 6:54:09 PM Reply	Probably not a good ratio On the one paw, it neglects dropped bombs, artillery, and small arms. On the other paw, they use .50 in planes (including copters), tanks, and other carriers. Which spray down desert, buildings, rivers, whatever looks like it might be hostile. Or not as friendly as Detroit, say. A lot of the old ammo probably was quickly field tested, failed, losing a barrel, and pitched in the hopes that the bad guys would use it. Some of it might be dumped out of hand because they've lost too many barrels/receivers to verdigris covered rounds. I wouldn't use AK ammo from Vietnam days; WW2 is ridiculous. How much of the dumped ammo is coming back to haunt the dumpers is up for speculation. But you've got a point. We're killing too few bad guys for resourses spent (I consider our soldiers a lot more valuable than materiel.) Perhaps if we knew who the bad guys were...
Post #232,205 by rcareaga 11/2/05 8:55:55 PM Reply	eyes, beholders hnick sez (edited for clarity): We're killing too few bad guys for resources spent. —of course, bystanders aside (and Allah only knows how many of those have been toted up as "terrorist" kills), a significant fraction of the "bad guys" foolishly imagine that they're fighting on behalf of their country to expel a foreign invader. We know, of course, that the Great White Father in Washington wants nothing but good for all the peace-loving people of Wogistania, but you can understand how a buncha ignorant furriners might not see the Big Picture. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #232,441 by mmoffitt 11/4/05 12:53:19 PM Reply	That was priceless. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

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