At end of training, Marines say Mongols ready for duty in Iraq

estripes ^ | 9.28.03 | Fred Zimmerman,

[Dog]

Holy moly the Mongols are coming!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Are you joking?
They commited the first genocide of Christians
in 1914.

[RightWhale]

Wild bunch. Last time the Mongols were in Baghdad they painted the town red.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

"GENGHIS KHAN" - The Movie

Starring OMAR SHARIF & SOPHIA LOREN


"GENGHIS KHAN" - The Reality

Starring Mongolia SOLDIERS working for the Freedom of Others

Simply Amazing.

[windchime]

Bump!

[LibKill]

Where are the horses in all this?

How can there be Mongols without horses?

And bows and arrows, lots and lots of arrows.

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Norse]

>Are you joking?
>They commited the first genocide of Christians
>in 1914.

Yes but that doesn't mean you can just disregard their successes over hundreds of years. The O.E. was a well oiled machine that worked very well, better than any other

[Norse]

>Ottman? Haha, they loose all 5 war to Russia.

You're lucky you fought them at opportune times for Russia

[PhilDragoo]

A Mongolian servicemember closely observes the characteristics of the M-203 grenade launcher during the second phase static display portion of Khaan Quest '03, a bilateral and interoperability exercise between Marines and the Mongolian Armed Forces. (Photo by Cpl. Michael D. Darbouze).

Coalition dittos.

[blam]

The Xiongnu ...or the Huns as we call them.

Hungary gets it's name from them. IMO, they became the Hakka who migrated to Southern (Guongdong) China. Also, these people were the hardest hit by the SARS outbreak

[blackie]

A multi-cultural Coalition of the willing and able ~ Bump!

[swarthyguy]

Budding Gurkhas BUmp.

[archy]

Baghdad NEVER really recovered from the last time it was visited by the Mongols.

Can't we just have them patrol Kirkuk instead???

"Very well. But it is far from Damascus..."

--T.E. Lawrence.

Next stop: Mecca!

-archy-/-

[archy]

The New Sack of Baghad by the Crusaders and the Mongols!

And you thought you'd seen anger and rage in the Arab world.

*****

Budding Gurkhas BUmp.

The Afghanis were not real happy to learn that the infidel Gurkhas now working there include both Jainists who follow the way of their Nepalese forebears, as well as those exposed to the British who've joined the Church of England. But the muslums learned to be at least pretend real respect toward them. I expect the Iraqis will develop some similar sentiments.

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather to your bosom his wives and his daughters.

-- Temujin, the Genghis Khan, ca. 1226

[archy]

Has anyone told these Mongol types that we want Sodom Hussein alive, not all mushy in a leather sack? Talk about sending in the hard core!!!! To make it really sweet, how about a battalion of Ghurkas.

Ayo Gorkhali! Per the pic in #36, they're being used as a contract security force for essential US communication facilities and other interesting taskings. And they're busy with a counterinsurgency campaign against upstart Maoists at home, but aside from some Gurkhas serving with the initial British forces that helped remove Saddam Hussein from power, there are also some involved with the follow-on securing of the country and the nation rebuilding effort.

Very fun guys to work around, though serious when it's work time. And about as good as what they do anywhere in the world, or in their own neck of the woods. And the thought of playing bukashi with Saddam's head in a leather sack would be as great a sport for the Gurkhas as it is for the Afghani and Mongol horsemen. Some of those Gurkhas are pretty good riders, too.

[archy]

And you thought you'd seen anger and rage in the Arab world.

Just wait until they find out what the muezzins in the mosques are going to be replaced with....

[RussianConservative]

Smart general choose when fight. Also, seige of Viena lifted by Polish army, but third of Polish army Russian soldier.

[Cronos]

Thanks for the link!