[bullmastiff]

Just a quick point about Iraq that many people were unaware of. Iraq had been shooting at us for years! It was almost a daily occurence in IRAQ in support of Operation Southern Watch/Northern Watch This happened so much, that the media rarely made mention of it. I remember this occuring everytime I was there between 1999-2002 in support of OSW. Sadam even went as far as to place bounties on specific assets. I know in the E-3 we had a 100,000 USD bounty on our head everytime we flew. Believe me I thought about this a lot. Had any other country been shooting at us with AAA/SAM's I think we would have never waited that long to kick their ass. IMO that deserves an A$$ kicking right there, shooting at us, trying to take lives. I'm sure mike can back me up here. I suppose you sat CSAR alert in Kuwait before? The media loves to distort the facts, and point blame elsewhere