you don't see or hear of iraqi helicopter pilots, or tank crews. their soldiers rely on their rifle. why do they go into battle with no ammo? why does this happen all the time? why does your media refuse to ask the most fundamental question? how many bullets do we give iraqi soldiers? if the answer is ZERO, we all instantly realize why its so tough to get them to step up.
2006-12-28 08:00:49 · 10 answers · asked by Christian Wolfe 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
can folks stop just making up answers? is there not a single soldier in the u.s. military who has worked with iraqi soldiers and can answer this question?
2006-12-29 05:25:26 · update #1
I'm pretty certain we don't give them any bullets. There are AK-47's and ammo for them everywhere. So having to supply Iraqi troops with ammo doesn't make sense. AK-47 ammo and M-16 ammo are NOT interchangeable. And how do you know they are going into battle without ammo? Are you sure you aren't watching some training footage?
2006-12-28 08:12:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on how they use it. 600 rounds for an AK-47 weighs a lot, yet in automatic mode that's only 2 minutes worth of ammo. They love to spray and pray. Sometimes they will spray straight into the air. To the Iraqis, they have 2 minutes of ammo, and to the Americans, that ammo could last for a couple of hours. If the Iraqi soldiers were given M-1s instead of AK-47s, there ammo supply would last longer.
2006-12-28 10:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iraqi soldiers? Remember, these are men with families who were living in a stable dictatorship peacefully.
Then the Freedom loving hallucinators rode into town and brought hell and now they want those fathers/sons/brothers to bears arms to defend against an enemy they created?
BULL ****!
2006-12-28 08:13:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Their Army is being fully funded and their soldiers fully equipped...it's not our fault they don't show up for training, formation, etc... that is why it's so hard to get them to step up! But at least the Iraqi Army isn't as corrupt as their Police Force.
2006-12-28 08:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by i_love_my_mp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hear your plea! I pray for you! .... it's like fighting a war with sticks and stones against helicopters and tanks, ouch, i'd certainly think i'd be the underdog with my sticks and stones, had you warned me, maybe i could've prepared for this onslaught and made those damn "Nuclear Weapons" and destroyed you all, we had the money, the oil, we had our disputes yet we settled it among ourselves without interferrence and all of a sudden puff puff, here comes the American's.
2006-12-28 08:27:58 · answer #5 · answered by whispergently0204 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not that, Its that their thinking the US is going to be there to do all the work for them forever. I say we pull out and make em do it themselves like America had to. They already have better incredibly better odds against the Insurgetns than the Colonist against the Brits.
2006-12-28 08:12:59 · answer #6 · answered by I Hate Liberals 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We give them enough for more than 15 each, how the Iraqi's hand them out we don't know.
2006-12-29 04:50:28 · answer #7 · answered by Clamdigger 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
i agree with Mach I,and i 'd like to reverse the question : how many bullets should be given to american soliders for ruining Iraq?
2006-12-28 08:31:14 · answer #8 · answered by sara l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zero, I hear that most really don't want to defend themselves or their country as a whole.
2006-12-28 08:07:44 · answer #9 · answered by mitch 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Please recognize the subtle distinction between a national "police force" and a national "army".
2006-12-28 08:05:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋