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Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs
Luban Doyle writes "In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq."
Talk about being a television-programmed drone. Personally, I think it would be all worth it if you saved a life. Seeing it on television means jack shit, just like seeing that one video of a bomb going down a chimney that we saw replayed about 3495235927 times during desert storm.
Obviously, this doesn't detract from what the woman is doing, but it's frightening nonetheless. It's not real unless you saw it on television.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
WHOA! SOmeone not claiming our soldiers are morons, on this site? Thats new.
Anyways. You do have to give it to them, they will improvise when they need to. It has happened in every long-term conflict that the US has been involved in. Soldiers will come up with their own small was to thwart the enemy.
You mad
The reason for the acronyms is that they make the idiots at the White House sound more competent and knowledgeable than they actually are, expecially when they are forced to explain that troops are being killed by booby traps.
Once again the people back home need to give the soldiers what they need to survive (Body Armor, Helmets, Silly String...), while our government is busy wasting millions of dollars on Raytheon missle systems that don't work... but then again who own stock in Raytheon? (hint: they run the White House....)
The same group that would tell your fatass to shut your cum dumpster. Better known to civilians as mouth.
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It is really silly. And what about using planes to pull out the soldiers? It will safe more lives then Silly Strings.
Should not mothers lobby for their children returning home instead of gathering silly things?
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
Get the FUCK out of Iraq.
Patriotically as always,
Kilgore Trout.
P.S.: Call Your Senator and demand the arrest, trial, and conviction of the
world's most dangerous war criminal.
you know... Silly string doesn't just disappear after you have sprayed it out of a can. It wouldn't be hard for insurgents to see the left over silly string and figure it out. I am not saying that these posts can't tip off insurgents but seriously... That's as bad as Newt saying we need to "curb" Freedom of Speech on the internet and media to protect our troops. There are more leaks in our government then there should be.
I think it's brilliant and clever, more power to our troops and their creative ways to protect themselves. Lord knows our government isn't as focused on their protection as they should be.
If the French and British learned that invading an independent country wasn't a good idea, the situation in iraq wouldn't be as dire as it today. People in france and british are decendent from professional killers and backstabbing statesmen that created this situation. They should be ashamed and he French and British deserve whatever they get for shirking from their responsibility for this mess and being hypocrites about cleaning it up.
Essentially the French and British split up the ottman empire after WWI (they sided with germany and of course lost WWI) and the British decreed their section to be aggregated into Iraq by gluing together the sunni, shia and kurdish territory (this is not unlike the problem in the former yugoslavia another failure of the League of Nations). Not surprisingly, it isn't working like most things the UN (the sucessor to the League of Nations).
You can fault the US all you want to for the invading Iraq, but sadly there is enough blame to go around It's just that the US is the last one that touched it before it broke.
Fuck Jesus.
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
> It's near-impossible to predict exactly what troops on the ground need before you actually get there.
right, nobody would have expected to find trip wires on booby-traps in a war zone
> American soldiers have always innovated in the absence of the right tool for the job
> the innovation of the American soldier
Yep, *American* soldiers innovate, *furin* soldiers are just a bunch of mouth-breathers that sit around like zombies when not told what to do
Saving lives..... whoehahaha
Raising the survival rate of your proper soldiers so they can do more killings.
Die in pain and anger!