Politics: RPG for You and Me
If I were to play the invaded nation/weapon association game, I would not have previously associated Iraq with the now-ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). That was Afghanistan's weapon of choice, at least in the newsmedia. But it appears that every family in Iraq has an RPG they can squeeze off at "coalition" forces at a moment's notice. Unless we didn't really beat the Iraqi army and we just rushed to capture Baghdad leaving the enemy at large in much of the country, fully armed with RPGs and even a fearless leader... Nah, that didn't happen.
If I were to play the invaded nation/weapon association game, I would not have previously associated Iraq with the now-ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). That was Afghanistan's weapon of choice, at least in the newsmedia. But it appears that every family in Iraq has an RPG they can squeeze off at "coalition" forces at a moment's notice. Unless we didn't really beat the Iraqi army and we just rushed to capture Baghdad leaving the enemy at large in much of the country, fully armed with RPGs and even a fearless leader... Nah, that didn't happen.
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