On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:54:32 +0000 (UTC), Jim Yanik
wrote:

Steve Hix wrote in
:

In article ,
Jim Yanik wrote:

If the crowd of jihadis is milling around and carrying prohibited
weapons like RPGs,why not just drop a 250 lb. blast-frag bomb on the
crowd? Everyone there is supporting the jihadis.

Hardly. Quite a few locals are fed up with the jihadis, particularly
al Sadr's mob.


Then they should be turning them in to the authorities,or fleeing the area.

I doubt that in one of those rallies,that ANTI-jihadis are mixed in the
crowd.Heck,you can see them all waving their arms,and waving
flags,banners,etc.That's not anti-jihadi behavior.

Look at it logically - you're on the way to the shops to buy a hun of
cheese, take a wrong turn, and find yourself caught in the middle of a
mob who you don't support - do you

a. Chant and shout along until you can get the hell away (my personal
choice)

b. Jeer and taunt them, and end up dead in under a minute with a 9mm
headache

c. Go and report them to the authorities - who happen to be the
Americans who have been killing a lot of innocent Iraqis along with
the guilty, and who are being watched by those same nutters yuo're
against - oops 9mm headache again

Tough choice huh?

Peter Kemp