In message , "Paul J. Adam" wrote:

it's fine in peacetime idiot, but firing mg's in a war zone will get you
killed .

It's not a "war zone"

??????

- major combat operations ended last year.

ISTR that they did. This is not the modern British Army (as it appears as
things are judged "over there." A few companies skirmishing with small groups
of insurgents hardly constitute a major battle. There has been no large scale
(corps/army) maneuvering, since the fall of Baghdad.

Your
President said so, I saw him on the televisualiser gadget thingy,
standing on one of his big grey war canoes.

They aren't his, they are the U.S. public's. We are a republic, remember?

What, was he wrong or something? Isn't anyone going to tell him?

For "he" you should have written "I," and, yes, you are, or are you attempting
to sell the notion that guerilla war is not war, therefore, a "warzone" cannot
exist? You have really stretched some of your arguing points beyond the point
of credulity of late.

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Regards,

Michael P. Reed