Minnesota National Guard troops get a realistic taste of war

[Earth_First]

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. - As Minnesota National Guard troops prepare for tours in Iraq, they're getting some of the most realistic training available.

Local Arab Americans and other residents are paid $12.47 an hour to play Iraqi villagers or insurgents, and a makeshift mosque, fake storefronts and harmless mortars help simulate the kind of urban warfare the troops will encounter in Iraq.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/13437323.htm

[Wcross]

1. If they have to go it is better they be prepared.

Training will not only help save American lives but also those of innocent Iraqi's. Its a shitty war based on a lie but the fact remains they will have to go over there and do it.