Re: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles

At 10:31 AM -0500 5/12/08, Doug Evans wrote:
>Thanks for the thoughtful, reasoned, and civil reply to a previous
reply
>that was none of the above. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an
>apology.

Doug, bear in mind. John has been over to Iraq twice. His wife has been
there once. Her deployment was after his first deployment and before his
second. They had about enough time to kiss and get to know each other
again before she was in the theatre. John is working up for his Third
deployment. She'll probably get a deployment after he comes back.

I strongly suspect that his being told that he is mistaken on what is
and is NOT supplied by the Iranian QODS Force when he's probably
inventoried and stacked the boxes himself is NOT a good way to get a
polite response to him. Especially considering he's probably helped bag
friends and co-workers who've been killed by those same weapons from
those same sources.

If you look at the media and reports and the history, it's bloody clear
that Iran has a hand in what is going on in Iraq. Both in material
funding and in advisors. We captured several Iranians who were "on
holiday" who were quite clearly there to advise 'Mookie' al Sadr. The
attack on the US compound where US soldiers were 'captured' and then
executed had a LOT of markers that pointed to an Iranian Op. How many
acts of war do we allow the Iranians? I'm sure that's in Johns mind. It
is in mine.

>By the way, I've seen reports on Iranian weapons cases, but not
specific to
>EFP's.

The Administration/Pentagon showed some around a while back. People were
un-impressed. The same was done with some of the weapons supplied to
Hezballah. The Media is NOT really concerned with this sort of detail.
Why I cannot say, I don't go to those meetings here at work.

The thing about this war is that there are enough speedy open source
details that if you listen and pay attention, you'll get a better idea
of what's going on than from the nightly casualty count figures cited on
air.

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