Weapons on a University Campus?

Seems to me that it would be easy to set up a place at the entrance manned by Iraqi citizens whereby all visitors/students "checked" their weapons before entering and could retrieve them upon leaving. The "gun check guys" could be some of those Iraqis milling around on the streets and loitering on the corners.

Let the Iraqis shoot their own instead of ours.
I think I am losing patience with the Iraqi "do-less" attitude.

You know, that is the biggest problem with career bureaucrats: They form up and "administrate", each establishing a territory in the scheme of things, and then the fun starts as they "earn" their large paychecks.
Practical, simple solutions never emerge, just crap like the loafers hanging on corners, contributing nothing while they wait for coalition people to fix everything. They'll spend ten million dollars in taxpayers' money to produce nothing but more problems "requiring" more bureaucracy.
I'm in favor of seeing the rebuilding of Iraq supervised by a senior military officer who's been around the block on the business end of the armed forces rather than the back office end. Or a hard nosed, no- nonsense veteran company builder who knows how to turn a failure into a success.

And what the post above didn't say is that the poor kid was just standing in line to buy a soft drink. He was shot at point blank range in the head. The perp got away. WHY?

This makes me angry. Angry at the bystanders who saw this happen and didn't get the perp.

May he rest in peace.

RIP, brave soldier.

This was one of the things Wolf said our kids over there would learn the hard way. Not their fault, it's just that some things don't register on people until they learn first hand. He showed me a post he had put up to a female soldier- Theresa?- in which he had cautioned combat readiness at all times.
He was really serious, and he predicted some of this.
Like, don't even let your guard down in the barracks, bring your weapon with you to the head, sleep with it, don't trust any civilians to the point of not considering them a potential enemy and NEVER go anyplace without a buddy or two, not even to a public toilet. Every back needs to be watched, no "time outs". Live and breathe survival, because even in a city like Baghdad in times like these, with a strong U.S. military presence, when there are guerillas around you are in a combat zone 24 and 7, and need to treat even an after dinner walk like a patrol behind the lines.
Our commanders over there need to pound this into the troops, make it a policy and enforce it with disciplinary measures if any troops are caught being careless. It might inspire some grumbling at first, but it also might get a lot more of our soldiers home.

On another note, they have concluded Operation Sidewinder with a visible measure of success, but I think it was a mistake to end it. There should be continuous broadbased operations of the same kind continuing, unending, not giving these SOBs any respite.

And hearts & minds policies, pc, etc shouldn't extend to putting our troops in extracurricular danger, they really need to search those mosques. We already know these "holy places" are being used for bomb making and as armories, and it needs to be explained to these objecting clerics that while we're sure they are honest, Allah fearing people, we are a "once bitten, twice shy" kind of people.

You must ALWAYS be careful when your on a mission. Thats the first rule, and it's drilled into your head.
I drill it into every kids head that I train as well. (I hate being stuck on training duty, I'd rather be on a tour)

Those boys are dealing with a very unstable people, and i know they can con you into feeling safe. Your NEVER safe in a country where you've just turfed a leader of killers.

I'm sure this man knew this, and I'm sure he followed all the rules.
It's extremely hard to be on guard every second,
This shows that the baath party people in Iraq took off their uniforms, blended in society, but they are far from gone. It shows their terrorist training skills.
Lets not listen to these anti war people who don't count people dressed as civilians as soldiers.

We should see that they are violating the geneva convention, and rules of war.

I wonder what they would say if coalition troops took off their uniforms, and started playing the same game as these terrorists.

The thing is, soldiers of freedom are accountable for their actions, these back-wards terrorists aren't, but we have to give them rights regardless.

personally, I say the hell with that, I'd be rounding up whole communities, deep searching every home, treat them with the strong arm and sheep that they are accustomed to being treated.

this would save some of our boys lives

"strong arm and like sheep like they are accustomed to being treated"