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[quote]My big concern is if there will even be an election. The Homeland insecurity act allows for the continuation of powers in the event of national emergency. Something they didn't even have during World War 2 but suddenly need now. My money is on a terrible occurrence between now and then. a sad faced monkey president will appear on television and not mention the lack of election, only the need to postpone during this time of crisis.CM[/quote] I think that is a little ridiculous

We do have thermobaric SMAW rounds in the inventory. If you made it a tandem charged warhead, a penetrator followed by the thermobaric warhead (similar to the PG-7VR) you could have a suitable bunker buster as well as an all around urban destruction application.

It is man's nature to want to force other people to adhere to his views. In reality that is what armed conflict is: forcefully imposing your will on others. I seriously doubt that Hitler's ideologies have much to do with the middle east or the groups that terrorize it. Terrorism and terrorist tactics as they are today evolved from the IRA's success in Ireland.

Can't say anything about blackouts because I never saw them in my area of operation (Fallujah and surrounding area). As for cars, they were either repaired or replaced for the full cost plus whatever we gave them while on patrol. They had access to the fresh water any time they wanted to get it from either the Euphrates or from the human assistance sites within the city.

[quote]DrathKar, Let me fill you on a little info. It is really easy to trash a idea AFTEAR IT HAPPEND. You should try to look at Trumans point of few. If you look at the Japanese army, which was one of the best in the world, they would fight to the death. which is hard enough without facing a well trained, battle hardend, and well motivated enemy. Why do you think we invented the Island hopping campaing, because we thought they should be left alone? WRONG, we did it because the Japanese army wa