Posts made by Meijing

Another American soldier was killed trying to disarm a bomb.

Well, the since today there is another dead soldier.

Well, I can give you some human impressions. I studied Mathematics in Birmingham, Alabama for 10 month. Though the German unemployment rate is bigger than the American, the people are far better off in Germany than in America. There is less poverty, there are fewer homeless and the education is far better.
There are more beggars on the street than here. There is much more crime in the cities. I spoke with lots of people in dept and living from paycheque to paycheque. The cars on the streets were old and damaged. The same is true for many houses I saw. The college is very expensive, but Math 101 is rediculous. An American Bachelor is maybe, just maybe, a little more than a Bavarian Abitur.

Since I’m still at college, I don’t work yet and thus can’t give you personal information on that.

You’re right many people think the army is a chance for them to escape poverty, to get some decent education or maybe to become a hero, but that’s not true. Joining the army means killing and dieing for your country. Maybe the US Army should stop all those missleading advertisements.
But this doesn’t change the fact that the American governement made promisses they could not hold. They told them, that they will be home soon, but they are still in Iraq and will be there for some more time. They told them, that the Iraqis will cheer when they are “liberated”, but they didn’t tell them about those bringing death to the occupation forces.

People like El Jefe are those Americans which are alienating many Europeans. When opinons like these are brought forward by people calling themselves the “greatest nation on Earth”, many people fear that the former protector of democracy and liberty is more and more becoming a threat to the liberal ideas it once defended.

I hope El Jefe is putting his life where his mouth is and is allready enscripted for military duty in Iraq. I can’t convince him that things are going not good in Iraq, if even the soldiers raising their voice against the American governement can’t convince him.

Markus.

Is a soldier allowed to critizise the president or a minister?

If President Bush hadn’t censord the report about 9/11, we might know now, how much Iraq had to do with it.

FinsterniS? toothfairy? I don’t know any of those.
Though FinsterniS is German meaning DarknesS.

I just wanted to point out that “I don’t know” does not mean, “I don’t know whether god exists or not”, but “I don’t know whether I believe or not”.
And the last sounds pretty strange to me, unless you didn’t talk to you recently.

How can you be not sure whether you believe in God or not?
Not believing in him doen’t claim that he does not exist, it simply states that there’s nothing which made me believe he does. So if I’m not sure whether he exists, I do not believe he exists.
Nobody can prove God does not exist, nor can anybody prove Dragons do not exist or Mickey Mouse, but it is very unlikely.

Now tell me, is there peace in Iraq?
Yes, Saddam has hidden and there are no more Iraqi tanks on the battle field, but as long as American soldiers are dieing almost everyday due to attacks, I wouldn’t call that peace.

I wasn’t following the war during Spring Break. I saw some news on TV, but you hardly get any information. War looks much more positive on TV.

Why doesn’t Bush or the generals want to make predictions? Why wasn’t the time schedule, which is fullfilled so precisely, presented before war started? Because in that case it would be easy to see if the assumptions on which this war was based were wrong.

Even correct arguments become wrong, when they are based on the wrong assumptions. So we can’t argue about this war without telling our assumptions, our speculations. Whether we are pro or against war strongly depends whether we expect it to last 2 weeks or 2 years. We certainly don’t have as many informations as the generals, but nevertheless we do and have to make a picture out of the informations they present to us.

I just want to point out, that this even aplies if the transport doesn’t have to move. If the British want to use the Russian transport to ship toops to Norway, they have to wait on the boat for one round.

I bet that fighting won’t be over even if Saddam is killed. Many of the soldiers are not fighting for Saddam but for Iraq. Even people, who don’t like Saddam don’t like the Americans occupying their country. People who left Iraq, for whatever reason are now returning to defend their country. There will be no peace until the Americans will leave.

When I started this threat I hoped people would write down their expectations so that in the future we can easily compare, which expectations came true.
I wonder what people like Xi or Deviant:Scripter expect from the war. Do they think the Iraqis will welcome the Americans in Baghdad? Do they think war will be over in no time? What about F_alk, Ozone27 and Yanny? What do you think?
I would like to have explicit statements, such that in the end it becomes clear who was right.

My error is not in the final answer, which is correct, but in the deduction of this formula. I stated that the attacker will loose 2*m troops in one round, which is wrong.
Now I know how my professors must feel when I point out an error in what they do.

There’s a problem with your formula, it is not sufficient, that the ratio m/n is conserved. The number of tanks will stay the same and hence in the second round the tanks will have a higher influence on the battlefield than in the first round. This formula would be correct if the number of tanks also decreases and the ratio m/t stayed constant.

Let m0, n0, t0 denote the numbers before the first round m1, n1, t1 the numbers after the first attack.
Further assume
| A0 = n0n0 + 3t0n0 - 2m0m0 = 0
or equivalently
| (n0/m0)^2 + 3(t0/m0)(n0/m0) - 2 = 0
and hence
| n1/m1 = n0/m0
therefore
| A1 = (n1/m1)^2 + 3(t1/m1)(n1/m1) - 2
| = (n0/m0)^2 + 3(t1/m1)*(n0/m0) - 2
but since
| m1 < m0 and t1 = t0
| => (t1/m1) > (t0/m0)
which implies
| A1 > A0 = 0
so after the next round the ratio between the infantries would change.

Nevertheless this formula gives an uper bound for n and hence is helpfull.
If you use more infantry for your attack then this formula indicates, then you are on the save side.

Yes, there is an error, my fault. Works out to the same end, because it only depends on the relation between the hits. While thinking about it, I made the simplification of 1 and 2. But you’re right, I should haven been more carefull as I wrote it down.

But why should you roll 12 dice when you have 7 units?
I tried to cover as most as I could by giving a very general answer.

Humiliation of POW:
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,grossbild-253447-242241,00.html
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,grossbild-252004-242424,00.html

Last Sunday I bet with a friend of mine, that America will not reach Baghdad within this week. They covered 350 miles of dessert within a few days, but now they’ve reached habitated areas and there advance will be stalled by defence.
I don’t expect this war to be over before summer, but I think Saddam won’t survive this year.
I don’t expect a big movement at the northern front before the end of next week, there might be smaller advances, but these will come to an end quickly.

How do you see the situation in Iraq? What do you expect to happen in the near future? When will the Americans start fighting for Baghdad? Will the USA get Saddam Hussein? If so, when will they catch him?