Quote:
|
Most of the violence is Iraqis killing other Iraqi's isnt it?
|
Most of the *deaths* are, but the Iraqis aren't in armored cars, in body armor, with ROE that say 'shoot cars that don't stop', and with medevac helicopters standing by.
For a long time the violence, defined as number of attacks however, was overwhelmingly against coalition forces, and indeed may still be so (not seen any figures recently). The includes anything from a chap having a pop with a rifle at a patrol to a mine explosion capable of destroying a tank to the rather elaborate co-ordinated downing of a US chopper followed by two ambushes of the rescue party. We've really given the bad guys world-class training in counter-insurgency.
Quote:
|
Yes, but that doesn't help BBKing knocking the efforts of British people over there trying to make things better.
|
I'm certainly not knocking the British Army, since I tend to agree with a lot of the views expressed on ARRSE, in particular (shorter version: 'Blair is a ****/the mission's pointless/get out now'). I *am* knocking a) the people who lied to send them there and b) people who have an irrationally rosy view of the situation out of all proportion to the few known facts, who don't listen to the views of serious military men who know what they're talking about, preferring the views of charlatans like Bush and Blair.
The troops want to come home, the population of the UK overwhelmingly want them to come home, the population of *Iraq* overwhelmingly want them to come home, so why should all three views receive the middle finger?