Potatoman

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (IceFire @ April 24 2003,03:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well obviously you're gonna havta atleast do SOME work for it. Â Duh!<span id='postcolor'> How bad was your friends eyesight? What age was he? He didn't just happen to grow out of mildly bad eyesight did he? By the way if you have eyesight problems not wearing your glasses will just make things worse.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (PitViper @ April 23 2003,16:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ICBMs were derived from the V2. Â However, it would have taken a while to develop them and its certainly nothing the Americans could not have developed themselves or attained through espionage.<span id='postcolor'> Sure. At the end of WW2 the Germans had missiles that could fly from Germany to Britain and the US had.. erm... nothing! And the US has really shown how good they are at spying.

5--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 07 2003,125)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">addition, all Bradleys are amphibious. edit: you haven't been playing OFP enough.<span id='postcolor'> Do the USMC have Bradleys? Â

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 07 2003,11:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Been on Reuters for a while: http://www.reuters.com/newsArt....2518469<span id='postcolor'> Umm that was an AAV not a bradley.

As far as i have seen iraqi tv has shown 1 M1 in the last couple of days. It is quite possible the news channels haven't been showing everything but I have seen the same BMP shown several times as a US tank . Overall I've seen I'd say about 5 M1s destroyed. There are probably a few more that we haven't seen. I was quite funny seeing the Apache on the back of the truck

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ April 06 2003,17:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Iraqi information minister speaks of many destroyed or disabled coalition tanks. Â Also there are pictures of several of them. Â He also says the airport is not really under coalition control and that small numbers of coalition forces return to the airport after retreating, for propaganda purposes. Â Since this is war, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, certainly not where coalition tries to put it.<span id='postcolor'> Nah he's talking crap.If there were more destroyed US tanks they would surely show them not try and claim a BMP is a US tank And the fact that sky news are showing pretty regular reports from the airport shows that it is fully under Coalition control. I think it is fair to say at this stage that the Iraqi army is fucked and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.

Reuters raw video has footage of a burnt out M1 and what looks to be a bmp. I doubt more US armour was destroyed or Iraqi TV would surely be showing it.

Iraqi TV showing celebrations around what they claim is a US IFV. The turret was separated and there was no fire. I'm watching on streaming video so it was hard to see but it looked like a BMP to me  Edit: US claims of Iraqi casualities reduced to a couple of hundred.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ April 05 2003,17:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But how only one dead one critical? Â 3 Bradleys or M113's were destroyed, I don't really understand how no one died in those. Â Â <span id='postcolor'> Where are those reports from? What I'm hearing (sky news & bbc news 24) is one M1 disabled but towed out and one other abandoned due to mechanical failure.

According to the commander of the 3rd Infantry 1 dead and 1 critically injured in this mornings excursion into Baghdad. Hundreds of Iraqi casualties.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (tracy_t @ April 05 2003,16:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hold on a minute. A tank commander was SHOT? Â Don't tell me the Americans went into Central Baghdad, "turned out" so to speak? If that's the case, I've heard it all. You should put this story in the Military Stupidity thread.<span id='postcolor'> Most of them seemed to be turned out firing their machine guns. I'm not sure if the commander who was killed was in the M1 that was disabled. Apparently the engine was on fire and the crew got out and tried to put the fire out while the commander shot at iraqi infantry with his handgun

There seemed to be some m113s involved. I don't think i'd like to be there in one of those.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Antichrist @ April 05 2003,15:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well reporter from Russian news channel just reported that Iraqis kicked US forces from the airport. Heaps of coaliton soldiers died! And he is also saying that he didn't see any coalition troops anywhere in Baghdad!<span id='postcolor'> Hmm. I guess that sky news reporter at the airport must have been a bit confused then. Anyway footage on sky news of m1's driving along main roads in baghdad shooting the shit out of pickups and trucks is pretty convincing. One M1 definitely lost and 1 tank commander was killed. Edit: US forces apparently drove through some of the suburbs destroying the defences and then pulled back which is why no reporters in the city can see them. It looks like a devastatingly effective attack but really nowhere near the centre of baghdad.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ April 02 2003,20:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Last warning to Avon and Potato man.<span id='postcolor'> Oops sorry skipped your post when I refreshed.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (theavonlady @ April 02 2003,20:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Longinius @ April 02 2003,21:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Love thy neighbour.<span id='postcolor'> Well, I've already discussed that above. So is captial punishment and war outrighly forbidden, according to Christian biblical law? Is this stated anywhere? Once again, I plead ignornace on the subject.<span id='postcolor'> Not explicitly as far as I know(I am no theologian). But basically it goes against everything jesus said. But hey when has anyone ever followed their religion except when it suits them. I guess people are more inclined to follow the old testament as it encourages all sorts of nasty things.