Feel The DU Love For The Troops....

The DUmp | 12/1/04

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1035051#1035067

Khephra (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 05:20 AM Original message

Marines: Fallujah Battle a Source of Pride (some sickening quotes)

Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 05:26 AM by khephra

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"Fallujah is going to be right up there among the most successful battles in Iraq," said Maj. Tom Davis, 45, of St. Cloud, Minn. "It's where the rubber meets the road. That is where our heroes did their best."

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"Fallujah has been a life-changing event for many of the Marines, fighting in an environment that is just unfathomable to anyone outside," said Bourgeois, an explosives expert who retired from active duty two years ago, but was recalled this year.

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"When we saw what the enemy did, what they were capable of doing, we were only more eager to do away with this pure evil," Bourgeois added. "Regardless of how many pockets of resistance are still out there, it will not sway our morale. Nothing can."

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Sgt. Wayne Doyle, 23, of Neversink, N.Y., said he naturally misses home.

"But I'd much rather be here with my Marines," he said. "And I'd do Fallujah all over again."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-fallujah-images,0,5357229.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

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Khephra (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 05:30 AM Response to Reply #1

4. If that Sgt. really would rather be in Fallujah than at home

Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 05:30 AM by khephra

Then he's far gone. It might be better for the people here at home if he stays in warzones the rest of his life. He's not going to be close to normal back here, and I'm not even sure he realizes that there's even anything wrong with him. He's a "going postal" case just waiting to happen.

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signmike (342 posts) Wed Dec-01-04 10:45 AM Response to Reply #4

21. How many Tim McVeighs will come out of this

there was another thread a couple days ago asking. Here's one.

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Qanisqineq (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 05:28 AM Response to Original message

2. it was just like playstation!

I'm sure the freepers love to hear about all the death and killing of those "ragheads"! These marines that love killing give the majority of troops a bad name. Even the republican soldiers I know were sickened by the battle in Fallujah and have serious doubts about this war.

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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 05:29 AM Response to Original message

3. Whatever

If some Marine really wants to stay in Fallujah killing people then he can stay there for all I care, meaning that one less serviceman has to go over there.

They may think they are "fighting for our freedoms", but that is just demagogy meant to silence criticism of the Administration.

I no longer give a $#*& what happens to any of those troops who voted for Bush this year. From here on out they are getting what they deserve.

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Ruffhowse (785 posts) Wed Dec-01-04 05:33 AM Response to Reply #3

5. I'm sorry to say I'm also to the point of not caring about any troops who

Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 05:34 AM by Ruffhowse voted for Chimpy. From here on out, if they are wounded or killed, I think that comes under the heading of "be careful what you wish for".

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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 05:47 AM Response to Original message

6. F**K you, Maj. Tom Davis

F##king Repug from my own home town of St. Cloud, no less. That's just the kind of image I like to associate home with.

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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 07:09 AM Response to Reply #9

11. I'm sorry to say it, but I do NOT look forward to the troops coming home

I don't want to live anywhere near guys who took pride in the deaths of 100,000 Iraqis over the course of the invasion. I know not all of them have that opinion, but from articles like the one above, far too many seem to. Anyone who can take pride in the deaths of fellow humans, even if they killed in combat, doesn't seem to have it all together, IMO. I just wonder how many psychologically damaged young men will be coming back only to keep killing people here in the US? It happened after Vietnam, and it will happen after Iraq.

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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-01-04 07:15 AM Response to Reply #9

12. Actually IT WAS the voices of returning combat vets...

...who brought an end to that Holocaust we now remember as Vietnam. I know, because I was due to be drafted in 1974 and sent to the other side of the world to either be killed, or kill some poor bastard trying to get the US to leave his country and who had done nothing to me.

Don

[lowbridge]

Er, Don, you freaking liar...

In 1973, the draft ended and the U.S. converted to an All-Volunteer military.

So, you were due to be drafted in 1974, were ya?

On January 23, 1973, the US and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords, thus ending the American combat presence in South Vietnam

So you were due to be sent there after being "drafted", were ya?

[kingu]

Typical leftist bull---err, I mean, stuff that makes the garden grow. Everyone I know in Iraq is proud as hell about how well the operation went, and even more, proud of how the operation has inspired the Iraqi's to fight these terrorists themselves.

Not taking that town the first time around was a big goof, it made a lot of the terrorists appear to be invulnerable, and many Iraqis didn't want to bother fighting the terrorists, knowing that they could easily retreat at any time to their 'strongholds' and then come out again and terrorize the country once again.

Well, I should say that those who were selling the DVDs of the be-headings are a bit ticked that their supply is drying up, but that's a different story.

[TeleStraightShooter]

4. If that Sgt. really would rather be in Fallujah than at home Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 05:30 AM by khephra Then he's far gone. It might be better for the people here at home if he stays in warzones the rest of his life. He's not going to be close to normal back here,

Classic case of projection by khephra.
khephra just illustrated her own mental instability.

[Always Right]

Actually IT WAS the voices of returning combat vets... ...who brought an end to that Holocaust we now remember as Vietnam.

Wow, they really don't know history. The Holocaust was just starting. The Vietcon slaughter more than a million political enemies immediately after the war. In Iraq millions of people were killed, imprisioned and starved to death because of Saddam.

[laredo44]

Put simply: Liberals suck. You can't tell me all these wussies didn't despise our soldier-heroes before the election. They bit their collective tongues because they knew it would turn off the general electorate. Their lust for power defines them. Their only value is will this action advance the power of the collective.

[Budge]

DUmmies are real, patriotic Americans, aren't they?

NOT!

[F16Fighter]

Wasn't 'khephra' a Freeper at one time?

What an embarrassment.

[fastattacksailor]

ping for later

[WinOne4TheGipper]

bttt

[Marine_Uncle]

"Fallujah has been a life-changing event for many of the Marines, fighting in an environment that is just unfathomable to anyone outside," said Bourgeois, an explosives expert who retired from active duty two years ago, but was recalled this year."
So I guess some Marine or soldier that has had to kill Arabs and watch some of his buddies get WIA and KIA, blown up by IEDs, RPGs, mortars, and in some cases a lucky shoot by some Arab, in other places in Iraq are totally fathomable to most.

They just demonstrate their total lack of knowledge on what has been going on in Iraq and Afganistan.