Air Force fighters destroy terrorist hideout

[jody]

Air Force fighters destroy terrorist hideout
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U.S. Air Force F-16s successfully bombed a booby-trapped house in the vicinity of Al Mahmudiyah Nov. 23 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Anti-Iraqi forces had attacked Iraqi Army Soldiers with an improvised explosive device Nov. 21. Coalition ground forces then secured and searched the area of the attack, discovering the booby-trapped house, also used as a terrorist hideout.

After an explosive ordnance disposal team investigated the house and the surrounding area was cleared of civilians, 332nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron F-16s from Balad Air Base, Iraq, dropped 500-pound precision-guided bombs and destroyed the target.
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The story prompts a simple question, why use an F-16 with precision-guided bombs when the EOD team could have done the same job with a few pounds of explosives?

[SoCalDem]

1. "Air Force Fighters".. wtf??

Not air force pilots .."fighters" sounds so simplistically juvenile..

I hear the generals reluctantly spewing out other "Bush-isms" too like "war-fighters".. You can see them cringe, but they know they have to say the words

[karlrschneider]

2. So did they kill that pesky #2 guy again?

:eyes:

[neverforget]

5. Didn't you hear? They're outa number 2's so they had to go with

a number 3 instead. It's called downsizing. :sarcasm:

[karlrschneider]

8. Or maybe it's outsourcing!

:D

[wtmusic]

3. Simple answer: how is Martin Marietta going to recoup the costs

of developing them if we don't use them every chance we get? :sarcasm:

[tuckessee]

4. "Anti-Iraqi forces" ??????

That makes them anti-Iraqi Iraqis.

[Mikimouse]

6. Nah, just makes them Brits dressed as Iraqis...n/t

[foreigncorrespondent]

7. Simple...

The story prompts a simple question, why use an F-16 with precision-guided bombs when the EOD team could have done the same job with a few pounds of explosives?

...they probably think more "shock and awe" will some how help the current repuke troubles and Bush*s poll numbers!