Re: Is that they call discriminate fire? Yes, actually...

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:47:03 -0600, "No Spam!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


>Looks like the Saddamites are getting more desperate. Setting off a 
>remote bomb or an RPG is one thing; trying to take on US armed forces in 
>an actual face-to-face engagement is another. They should have learned 
>from last Spring.

  or this might have been something different.  Everyone knows that
the U.S. cannot be defeated militarily-- but it can be defeated by
attacking the political will to stay.  
  Had the attack gone badly for us, you could be seeing dozens of body
bags coming home, complete with reports that a "U.S. column was 'wiped
out' in fighting with Iraqi resistance fighters".   That would have
been a victory worth any number of casulties, and made far more of an
impact on U.S. public opinion than a simple car bombing. 
   Of course, that didn't happen, and when ambushes go south on the
attacker they tend to go very badly south-- which is what happened. 

   But the fact that they could set this up in the middle of a town
would indicate that the occupation either has A. no support., or B. no
credibility, at least in teh sense of being able to protect informers
from revenge strikes.  Either way, it's fairly apparent that hostile
forces can move around there fairly freely.