[Sandwich]

Honest question: http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/news/page.cfm?objectid=12715943&method=full&siteid=106694

Looks like a tabloid, but I wanted to be sure.

[Styxx]

Erm... No idea. Sounds strange, tho.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Styxx
Erm... No idea. Sounds strange, tho.

Actually, from the briefings I've received in my time in the IDF, it sounds like the caliber of soldiers that Syria places along her border with Israel - weakest first.

[karajorma]

The Mirror is a british tabloid and probably the one who prints the most correct stories out of the tabloids so it's probably true. Kind of shows how willing the average Iraqi soldier is to fight.
 I remember hearing stories of them surrendering to unarmed drones too

[Nico]

what I find funny is that those guys are described has weak, with little equipement, terrified, etc, but still:

"The Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off with barbed-wire fencing, watchtowers and huge trenches"

hem... I guess those soldiers were indeed not very dangerous, so I think somebody should think those "fortifications" over again

[Cannikin]

So much for Hussein's threats about how great Iraqi resistance will be.

[Tiara]

...and ordered them back to their home country telling them it was too early to surrender.

Ow and this site is like

"What should we write about today?"

"Ah, that sounds good! Lets make it a little bit more 'spectacular!'"

[karajorma]

Originally posted by venom2506
what I find funny is that those guys are described has weak, with little equipement, terrified, etc, but still:

"The Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off with barbed-wire fencing, watchtowers and huge trenches"

hem... I guess those soldiers were indeed not very dangerous, so I think somebody should think those "fortifications" over again

Maybe they were no longer dangerous AFTER having marched across the desert, cut through barbed wire fencing, ducked out of the view of watchtowers and climbed up and down huge trenches.
 I know it would take the fight out of me

[Martinus]

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Note that this is the paper that made a huge scandal over what was going on in the storyline of a completely fictional british soap.

"One character murders another character SHOCKER!!"

etc., etc., et braindeath...

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[Alikchi]

Well, I don't blame them. They're just delaying forces and they know it. The Coalition will roll over everything until they reach Baghdad. Then they lose their advantages in range, firepower and moral justification and it gets really messy.

[Knight Templar]

Tabloid or no, that's damn funny

[GT-Keravnos]

Would YOU fight for Saddam?



(Me thinks, barring Rep guards, US Forces have  little to fear)

[Vertigo1]

I doubt thats true.  It would've been on CNN by now if it was.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
The Mirror is a british tabloid and probably the one who prints the most correct stories out of the tabloids.  

i.e. it's probably still utter pish.

NB:  I saw footage of Iraqi troops surrendering  to a US drone during a proggy on channel 5 a few weeks ago.

[vyper]

Originally posted by aldo_14


i.e. it's probably still utter pish.

NB:  I saw footage of Iraqi troops surrendering  to a US drone during a proggy on channel 5 a few weeks ago.

[Vertigo1]

Maybe thats why the French want to deal with them.  Misery loves company.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by aldo_14


i.e. it's probably still utter pish.

NB:  I saw footage of Iraqi troops surrendering  to a US drone during a proggy on channel 5 a few weeks ago.

Well I wasn`t going to say so but....

[Stryke 9]

You know, it'd actually be pretty believable except for the "sending them back because it wasn't time to surrender" bit, which ranks up there with a giant meteor crashing into the Earth because God hates gays on the believablity scale. I mean, US forces technically have started attacking Iraqi installations and towns already- call it pre-preemption.

[IceFire]

Whats with the anti-French sentiment around everywhere?  Here, there, the PC Game I just got, on TV, in the stores where french fries are freedom fries...come on here.  They are allowed to have another position and be bloody stubborn about it.  In Canada, the "french" in Quebec have tried to separate from us a whole bunch of times and we've had a referendum and Quebec is still in the country and frankly nobody around here is seemingly seething about trying to split our country up and then changing all the food names so that they don't say French or Quebec in them....goodness!!!  All of you guys need lessons in how to be a Canadian

[Knight Templar]

Soo many things wrong with that paragraph..