• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    And that’s why they didn’t bother with guns in Iraq. Defeating the Americans was hopeless; mission accomplished.

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      4 months ago

      This response is so weird I can’t quite tell what your point is. Are you suggesting that the Iraqis resisted with small arms fire? Because that’s not the case.

      More US citizens die each year in the US from guns than US soldiers died in the entirety of the Iraq war. And it’s not a small difference either - each year 4-5x as many citizens die from gun violence. Not including suicides (which would more than double the number)

      So was your post trying to say the small arms resistance in Iraq was effective?