Sounds like a lot of self-serving bull to me.
Guess Gaubatz has never heard of a HERF gun before. Cheap and effective, good for stopping cars made after the mid-1980's, not as effective on earlier cars made mostly of steel and lacking on-board computers. Or, maybe, it's because most of the US military casualties have come from IED's, bullets, & rockets. Not from Suicide bombers which is what Gaubatz would have us believe.
To quote Gaubatz:
"Each mother who is handed a letter from a Pentagon official advising their son or daughter was killed in Iraq, should write a letter to Mary Walsh and ask her how she can continue not to reveal the truth."
Why yes Mr./Mrs. America, your son/daughter would still be alive today if only Uncle Sam had used Dave Gaubatz's handy-dandy sooper-dooper peachy-keen nifty little "Ray Gun". It stops everything including the kitchen sink!
Now, this guy is one good snake oil salesman.
His "Death Ray" sounds like it would be good against enemy troops caught out in the open. However, Baghdad being a city and all, has a lot of these things called "buildings", that I'm guessing would either absorb or reflect most of the energy headed it's way. This coupled with the fact that you might kill the few enemy Iraqis shooting at you, you'd also kill many more who are friendly or neutral torwards the US.
THIS. IS. A. BAD. IDEA.
This guy reminds me of an ex-girlfriend of mine. She had more book smarts than many people I've met, but very little in the way of common sense.
You can sum up the Gaubatz interview in one sentence:
"Nuke 'em till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark."
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