Marines in Fallujah trade 'culturally sensitive' training for bullets

AP | 4/15/04 | LOURDES NAVARRO

[Redleg Duke]

"I came in here with more money than bullets. Now I'm running out of bullets but the money is still in my pocket."

"I came here to kick ass and chew gum...and I'm all out of gum!"

[Congressman Billybob]

What an incredibly bigoted article. Would the Associated Press have run a story during WW II about abandoned efforts to "get along" with the Japanese or Germans?

What part of "We are at war" does the AP not understand?

Apparently, the AP doesn't understand what war is. For the benefit of apparently ignorant reporters and editors at the AP, "War consists of killing the enemy until those who survive decide to stop fighting." For sure it is bloody, destructive and expensive. But it is not hard to comprehend.

Congressman Billybob

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[E.Allen]

Well, that's the version my USMC Tanker friend told me. I was USAF and ANG

[ChinaThreat]

Correction. There is a morality in war among civilized warriors (i.e. spare women and children when possible). There is no morality among muslim scum!

[WOSG]

how can they reinforce if there is a cordon?
we now hear that they are using supply convoys to bring in ammo.

No, the delay is more harmful than helpful.
Remember, the civilians are harmed more the longer it lasts.

Best would be to take 10,000 men and storm the town in a single night. Take every block, every street. Go through 10,000 homes. Kill or capture every Jihadist.

One night. 1001 Arabian deaths.

That would make a story wouldnt it???

[USMARINE6]

Correction. There is a morality in war among civilized warriors (i.e. spare women and children when possible)>>>>>>The vanquished do not judge the victorious. War is War. No words truly define its repulsive terrible horror, anger, fear, degradation and humiliation it produces. It is as indescribable as the taste of water yet just as all who have tasted water know its taste so do those who have tasted war. When in a life & death struggle the moments of morality are a luxury. Even the civilized want to stay alive. Not many of those that was to invade Japan argued against dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima. Morality is something we consider in a sane world. After the insanity of war we can consider it again...those of us alive.
I'm paraphrasing the following from something I remember ("Let the enemy know that when he wages war against mine that he has made his mother, father, sister, brother, wife and children my enemy also. There is no burden I will not bear, no hardship I will not endure to crush those that do war against mine.")
Peace comes when the enemy has no longer the means to wage war. In the recent past this required the destruction of their homeland but it did produce a lasting peace and an end to perverted ideologies. Just my view friend.

[libstripper]

These so-called "negotiations" and "cease fires" are just being used to weaken us. The rag heads know they can't win militarily if the Marines are allowed to perform their mission. Thus, the rag heads create sham "negotiations" to try to prevail.

We should simply use all appropriate force, without concern for collateral damage, to finish the job and make an example of Falluja. Remember, one of the big reasons we won the peace in Germany and Japan was that we devastated each country and utterly cowed its inhabitatns before the war ended. General Sherman did the same thing to end the Civil War. We need to do it here.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Ooh. Like that thinking. Can you do this without Stormin Norman?

[section9]

I profoundly disagree.

Fallujah has become the place for the terrorists to congregate if they wish to kill Americans. I strongly suspect that this battle has been delayed to allow as many insurgents as possible into Fallujah so as to close the trap. This is the battle of Stalingrad, all right, but the insurgents are playing the role of Germany's Sixth Army. They're being suckered into a huge trap. Now that Al-Sadr is out of the way, we can put Fallujah to bed.

A lot of valuable terrorists are going to die. Trust me on this.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[rrrod]

I think you are correct in your assesments....have a little patience folks.