Troops blast music in siege of fallujah

yahoo news ^ | 4/16/04 | drew

[Revolting cat!]

If that makes you feel better I liked it at one time in the original by Richard Harris. But at the same time I knew well how over the top it was, operatic, bombastic almost, and in the end, what can ya do, I joined the crowd in heaping scorn on it. (If the original was bearableand interesting because of the lush orchestral arrangements, the other versions I've heard, the Four Tops for one, were truly horrible. I know of other FReepers who admit to liking it when it first came out, back in, when '67 or '68?)

[archy]

Ping for you.

They want music, do they? This one, all night, for the evening before.

Then, with the next day's sunrise, this one, followed by a B52 ArcLight strike for a percussion accompaniment.

[Freebird Forever]

OK, let's start suggesting songs for our Marines to play for the muj.

The first tune that came to mind was Blues for Allah, followed of course by a few well placed Daisy Cutters.

[LisaMalia]

what can ya do, I joined the crowd in heaping scorn on it.

For the love of pete, haven't you learned yet not to give in to peer pressure? Stand up for Richard Harris and MacArthur Park.! (And if you figure the inane lyrics out, let me know)

Hmmmmm, a version by the Four Tops, huh?..I must be losing my touch, cause I missed that one.

[archy]

If that makes you feel better I liked it at one time in the original by Richard Harris. But at the same time I knew well how over the top it was, operatic, bombastic almost, and in the end, what can ya do, I joined the crowd in heaping scorn on it. (If the original was bearableand interesting because of the lush orchestral arrangements, the other versions I've heard, the Four Tops for one, were truly horrible. I know of other FReepers who admit to liking it when it first came out, back in, when '67 or '68?)

I'm fond of this related piece.

[archy]

OK, I guess that makes me the only person in America who actually likes that song. I think I have 3 MP3s of it, sung by different artists. Harris and Donna Summers, and Sinatra. So sue me.

See what I have for you in #185, above. No, no- you needn't bother thanking me. But by all means, tell your son you have a little something for him....

[Polybius]

Time is not on our side. Every hour that passes more hi-tech arms are flowing into Iraq from Iran and Syria. Real anti-tank missiles that can destroy a main battle tank...... While we wait, the enemy is attacking our convoys and rear area. Every day they use to capture more civilians and troops and wage war on television with their friends in the american media.

I am specifically addressing the situation in Fajullah.

If you obliterate Fajullah with a nuke in the next 5 minutes, it will not affect the flow of arms from Iran.

In Fajullah, the enemy is trapped within a cordon sanitaire. Whatever happens outside of Fajullah is a separate tactical situation from what happens inside of Fajullah. The enemy inside Fajullah is not attacking any convoys as they are trapped like rats and are not going anywhere.

The question now becomes, "How are we going to kill the rats trapped inside Fajullah?"

Do we carpet bomb the city causing tens of thousands of civilian casualties in this city of 300,000 or do we allow time for the civilians to leave?

Do we try the "Hey diddle diddle. Straight up the middle!" infantry tactics used to storm a beach within an urban battlefield thereby risking hundreds of Marine casualties or do we wait a couple of weeks until the civilian population has abandoned the city and we can turn the entire urban landscape of Fajullah into an AC-130 and JDAM free fire zone thereby not risking a Marine platoon to capture a building when flattening the building with a 2,000 pound JDAM will kill the jihadis in the building just as dead?

Right now, we are "shaping the battlefield" within Fajullah to maximize our advantages so that we may kill the greatest number of Jihadis with the least number of civilian deaths and with the least number of Marine deaths. As for the Fajullah infrastructure, it's expendable.

There is little reason to have Marines die unecessarilly in house to house urban combat while fighting on the enemy's terms now when we can fully utilize our airpower and fight on our own terms in a week or two when Fajullah is populated only by the Iraqis that need killing.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[speedy]

Thanks for the ping, Archy. Calling Jimmy Cross and Nervous Norvus. Your country needs you.

[archy]

Start playing the sound tracks to porno movies. That ought to drive these sexually repressed clingons up the wall.

That's Klingons. And that's not a very nice thing to say about them.

After all, they too have some musical ammunition to donate to this project.

[Alkhin]

Why not just play hip-hop, only turn the Treble all the way down and let loose with the bass and turn the woofers up ALL the WAY.

Our neighborhood jerk-boy terrorized us with his POC stereo-system until he managed to total it.

*I* felt like abandoning my home...(so I could remove his claim to manhood...)

[MJY1288]

If they really want to piss off the Muslim insurgents, they should put a drive-in movie screen on the tallest structure in Fallujah and display Porno movies 24 and 7 and every once in a while display a news crawler at the top of the screen that questions their manhood

[archy]

If I hear one more rendition of "Sugar Sugar" I may go Jihad myself...

No need to thank me....

Original Vesion [The Archies]

Dave Corun cover

No Strings cover

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

[BJungNan]

OK, let's start suggesting songs for our Marines to play ...

I was going to suggest AC/DC when I saw the headline but I see they already have the CD. So, if they really want to drive them nuts, play Bob Dylan over and over. It seems to have worked on Dylan.

[Ben Chad]

Excellent

[MJY1288]

LOL, The problem with that approach is.... Our guys would probably shoot Will Hung within an hour :-)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

You need to obtain Maynard Ferguson's version of that song too! (Click on the music notes to hear the sound clip.

[Frank_2001]

I'd say, anything by Celine Dion, but that might violate the Geneva Convention...;))

[Polybius]

Patton's Third Army dealt with the German fortress town of Metx, the first major German city to fall to Amerivcan troops very handily. Among the other innovations developed by the 5th, 90th and 95th Infantry Divisions was the addition of 155mm self-propelled *Long Tom* artillery pieces and 8-inch howitzers for direct fire into buildings as countersniper weapons. That's one tradition that could be carried on in Fallujah.

See my Post 187.

When Patton reached Metz, the war was still in a dynamic phase. After Metz, there was still all of Germany to conquer. Time was of the essence.

In Fallujah, those jihadis aren't going anywhere. There is no time pressure.

Once the battlefield in Fajullah is shaped so that only jihadis remain, we can blast the infrastructure to rubble by air power and artillery and minimize our infantry casualties.