US tanks push into Iraqi stronghold

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040510/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480NAJAF,

Iraq - U.S. forces stepped up pressure on Shiite gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, pushing with tanks into the holy city of Kufa and assaulting militia positions in the narrow streets of a Shiite enclave in Baghdad. At least 34 Iraqis were killed

[Paulie]

1. Our Thristy MBT's?

Or something else? If the former, they resistance will just need to wait a few hours for them to run out of fuel, or their filters to clog. Gas Turbine engines in a desert... amazing...

IraqMIRE!!!!

[wuushew]

2. How long before we lose a tank to a thermite bomb?

according to numerous anarchist publications on the Internet a small amount of thermite can quite easily melt itself through the engine block of a car. Is the skin of steel tank any different?

[bemildred]

3. They just don't get the guerilla war stuff, do they?

There are no "positions". There is no "pressure".
There is just thrashing around in the mud-pit, or choosing not to.

[Just Me]

4. Was al-Sadr "an enemy" before the neocon-backed PNAC,...

,...or after? His father was slaughtered by Saddam, true? His father was slaughtered because he rose up against the brutal regime of Saddam,...true?

Tell me this picture isn't totally f-uped. Tell me that the US isn't anti-freedom. Tell me that these people are "liberated".

I will tell you,...you are a LIAR!!!!