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The terrorists - who, by the way, are not all Iraqis and are led by a Jordanian - are getting smarter only when they surrender. The Iraqi people despise them, and they are getting their hides tanned.
An example of how "smart" these clowns are - a column in today's paper told of three of these nitwits attempting to transport a mortar in a car. They had the bright idea of carrying a couple of rounds under the hood. The rounds overheated and one of them detonated when it was dropped into the mortar. So much for two of the terrorists. The third ran into a nearby house, where he was beaten by the inhabitants and turned over to the Amercians.
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 26, 2005 at 8:57 PM
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WriterofLight,
The Iraqis have gotten a little smarter in their tactics! Why face an Tank, Cobra Attack Helicopter, F-16, ... with a pea shooter? Believe me your brave marines are cowards, even with their superior fire power! Destroy and conquer are the strategies of a war criminals!
posted by
Glennb
on February 21, 2005 at 10:02 PM
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And speaking of political correctness . . .
. . . as I type this there’s a news report about kids in New York sending our soldiers letters – under a cover letter signed by their teacher – accusing them of murdering children and blowing up mosques. Good grief . . .
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 21, 2005 at 6:38 PM
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Glenn, you need help.
Calling a U. S. Marine a coward proves it. you want to see cowardice, try someone who hasn’t got the guts to take up weapons and fight his enemy man to man and instead relies on hidden booby traps that are as likely to massacre innocents.
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 21, 2005 at 6:38 PM
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Isaiah, welcome back!
You’ve been missed, sorry you’re still in a rage. No need to repeat yourself to make up for lost time. Please tell me I’m mistaken, but your language give the impression that you considered Iraq under Saddam – including torture chambers, mutilation and execution of dissenters, institutionalized gang rape, the world’s largest financial scandal, neglected public works, rampant pollution, and genocide against minorities – to be perfectly sound, healthy and functional, as in not broken.
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 21, 2005 at 6:37 PM
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Fwmystic,
that’s the story such as has been publicized. Charges were filed by the Marines, at the instigation of a discontent. Join me in keeping tabs on it, and let us all know what more you learn.
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 21, 2005 at 6:37 PM
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WriteofLight,
Where are you? Out getting your sheet cleaned?
posted by
Glennb
on February 21, 2005 at 10:56 AM
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WriterofLight,
A coward in life will be a coward in battle! And none of us can determine the moment when we will have to make the decision. Killing or maiming an unarmed man or woman is cowardice! You can always use the environment as a crutch. Lt. Pantano is a coward! And the charges are within the Code of Military Conduct! Let every man in battle determine his own conduct and anarchy will rule!
posted by
Glennb
on February 20, 2005 at 6:20 PM
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It's an ugly affair all around...
We are putting our troops in such a difficult position. We've planted them in a country riven with factional divisions, and without the nation-building expertise or troop levels or proper equipment required to do the job of rebuilding the country -- that is, fixing the country we foolishly chose to break. The administration spouted their nonsense that we would be greeted by flowers; instead our soldiers risk their lives dealing with suicide bombers. Rather than advancing peace in the Middle East, we have poked at a hornet's nest of a country that has little influence or impact on other countries in the region -- and set up a nice recruiting center and training ground for jihadists in the process... Stupid, stupid, stupid -- and we'll be paying the price for a long time down the road for our ill-advised adventurism.
This is yet one glaring instance of Bush's profound and dangerous idiocy...
posted by
Isaiah_in_a_Rage
on February 20, 2005 at 3:28 PM
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It's an ugly affair all around...
We are putting our troops in such a difficult position. We've planted them in a country riven with factional divisions, and without the nation-building expertise or troop levels or proper equipment required to do the job of rebuilding the country -- that is, fixing the country we foolishly chose to break. The administration spouted their nonsense that we would be greeted by flowers; instead our soldiers risk their lives dealing with suicide bombers. Rather than advancing peace in the Middle East, we have poked at a hornet's nest of a country that has little influence or impact on other countries in the region -- and set up a nice recruiting center and training ground for jihadists in the process... Stupid, stupid, stupid -- and we'll be paying the price for a long time down the road for our ill-advised adventurism.
posted by
Isaiah_in_a_Rage
on February 20, 2005 at 3:27 PM
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It's an ugly affair all around...
We are putting our troops in such a difficult position. We've planted them in a country riven with factional violence, and without the nation-building expertise or troop levels or proper equipment required to do the job of rebuilding the country -- that is, fixing the country we foolishly chose to break. The administration spouted their nonsense that we would be greeted by flowers; instead our soldier risk their lives dealing with suicide bombers. Rather than advancing peace in the Middle East, we have poked at a hornet's nest of a country that has little influence or impact on other countries in the region -- and set up a nice recruiting center and training ground for jihadists in the process... Stupid, stupid, stupid -- and we'll be paying the price for a long time down the road for our ill-advised adventurism.
posted by
Isaiah_in_a_Rage
on February 20, 2005 at 3:24 PM
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If this is as you say, who is charging him with murder??????
i suspect there's something you're leaving out.
posted by
fwmystic
on February 19, 2005 at 10:05 PM
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WriterofLight
Last year a British soldier faced charges of murder after he shot dead an Iraqi who was making off with anti-aircraft batteries. His army superiors dismissed any military action due to the fact the soldier was just doing his job. But the suits back home thought differently.
And they wonder why soldiers become demoralised.
posted by
chris2303
on February 19, 2005 at 3:21 AM
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Thank you, scoop, for your thoughts and your service.
posted by
WriterofLight
on February 18, 2005 at 7:54 PM
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It is a fine line they walk, no one can say what they would do if
they have never been in combat situation themselves. I have.
He spoke in arabic and appeared to be unarmed but to the Marine in a combat situation with suicide bombers striking everyday, he had seconds to make the call. The war in Iraq has the public twisting everyday, from the phony stories and rescue of Jessica Lynch, to Abu Grahib (spelling) prisoner abuse, to guardsman refusing to go on an unsafe transport, to the NBC journalist Kevin Sites and his pictures of the Marine killing a man in the Mosques to this story. What or whom do we believe?
posted by
scoop
on February 18, 2005 at 7:46 PM
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