Talk:Baghdad Airport Road

message: I excised the Naomi Klien "correction".  Is there room for the assertion?  Possibly.  But it shouldn't be asserted as a fact.  Either Klien misunderstood what she was told, or the translator mistranslated, or Sgrena herself misspoke or was misinformed.  There is no route separate from Route Irish reserved for diplomats.  Occasionally, as needed, the US military would shut down the on-ramps to Route Irish, effectively reserving it for the sole use of denizens of the Green Zone.
So, while it can be verified that Klien made her assertion, it can not be presented as a correction.  --  Geo Swan 00:29, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naomi Klien assertion 

message: ...it was always a hell of a ride!  NetSerfer 14:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  One thing about Irish... 

message: I don't think the road was named after the university but the unit guarding the road at one point which is the 1/69th Infantry aka the Fighting Irish.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.117.235 (talk) 07:00, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming of the Road 

message: I corrected information regarding the MSR designations, both what route is actually 'Irish' and why it's named that. I removed the following (which is incorrect): Nickname In 2005, the Irish Brigade was given the job of safeguarding the route.  The Irish Brigade is the modern United States National Guard unit descended from the 69th New York State Volunteers, formed at the beginning of the American Civil War.  The Civil War unit was composed predominantly of Irish immigrants. Nothing against the NYNG, but the MSRs were named after sports teams. NetSerfer 13:20, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, it's nice that you added that information, but the other story is frequently cited. From what I can tell the timeline does not support the naming deriving from the unit, so I've explained that accordingly. It's better to handle misinformation this way rather than just deleting it. --Dhartung | Talk 08:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Roger that. I'll clean up the text a bit. NetSerfer 02:20, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good cleanup, Netserfer. Thanks for your time on this Route Irish and on the real one. --Habap 18:23, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: First, I added a "main article" link so that people know there's a full article on the topic where most of the discussion belongs. Second, I added the SectPOV tag after starting to make a few fixes, because there are some odd claims in the text -- like that "Ambassador Negroponte" ordered the soldiers around, which doesn't make sense since he does not have a role in the military command structure. There are a few claims in the Italian report that were vigorously disputed by the Americans, and that should be noted in this article. The incident should be in the article, but it should be summarized better. I'm not sure that a detailed discussion of closure procedures is really relevant to the *Route Irish* article, given that they may have changed since then and different units (mainly Iraqi) now perform those duties. --Dhartung | Talk 09:20, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers!  --  Geo Swan 07:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV issues 

message: The article appears to assume that readers know the "Route Irish" appellation and the general description are from a post-Iraq War  persepective. The war is not mentioned explicitly, and that may confuse readers wondering about both the road's significance and certain specific statements. I believe the article needs to clearly state and cite when "Route Irish" came into use among U.S. soldiers, and then more widely  and try to provide some Saddam-era background. --Fsotrain09 22:12, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of Context 

message: why is PFC Keith "Matt" Maupin specifically mentioned? it doesn't appear that he did anything in particular that would earn him the right to have a convoy with many people named after him. hornplayer2 (talk) 05:17, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  why....