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9. We keep pouring gasoline on this fire, and it just keeps getting bigger

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sat Jun 6, 2015, 09:10 AM

Jun 2015

The solution is, obviously, to pour more military hardware into the region.

Luckily for folks like Lindsey Graham, nobody in the popular media has the brains to see the problem, so he can keep going on the talking chucklehead shows and say the most bone-stupid things, and none of the millionaires interviewing him betray the least sense that they're having a word with a raving lunatic.

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More than 2/3 of the Humvees the US supplied to Iraq have ended up in the hands of ISIL [View all] n2doc Jun 2015 OP

Should have put Lo-Jack in those things. Wilms Jun 2015 #1

The irony with that is one key works on all the Humvees JonLP24 Jun 2015 #4

they do not have a key Duckhunter935 Jun 2015 #8

I forgot how we turned them on in then JonLP24 Jun 2015 #12

they just have a switch Duckhunter935 Jun 2015 #14

I remember the lights now JonLP24 Jun 2015 #16

where the 915s based on a commercial truck? Duckhunter935 Jun 2015 #17

Freightliner JonLP24 Jun 2015 #18

Easier Duckhunter935 Jun 2015 #19

our motor sergeant Duckhunter935 Jun 2015 #15

Who could have seen something like this coming, eh? Raster Jun 2015 #2

I've seen clips of ISIS rolling around in US tanks JonLP24 Jun 2015 #3

well maybe faulty airbags will get em dembotoz Jun 2015 #5

eh, lousy fuel economy on those things. n/t malthaussen Jun 2015 #6

Very lousy JonLP24 Jun 2015 #13

The most likely lesson that will be learned from this: Martin Eden Jun 2015 #7

We keep pouring gasoline on this fire, and it just keeps getting bigger gratuitous Jun 2015 #9

Want to buy some Iraqi "Army" rifles....? Bigmack Jun 2015 #10

There should be strong demand for spare parts. bluedigger Jun 2015 #11