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“Get Some!” A crack Marine force resumes the attack on al Sadr’s Mahdi army.
NRO | August 16, 2004 | W. Thomas Smith Jr.

Posted on 08/16/2004 8:14:03 AM PDT by LavaDog

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1 posted on 08/16/2004 8:14:03 AM PDT by LavaDog
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Semper Fi Ping!

Semper Fi


2 posted on 08/16/2004 8:23:34 AM PDT by dd5339 (A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path.)
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To: LavaDog

Semper Fi!! Urr Rah!!


3 posted on 08/16/2004 8:25:10 AM PDT by Perseverando
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I'm so proud of what our Marines have accomplished in Iraq, fighting a new kind of war with new weapons and tactics, and kicking ass all over the place!

Semper fi!!

4 posted on 08/16/2004 8:28:18 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against Jean-France Kerry.)
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5 posted on 08/16/2004 8:31:54 AM PDT by kingattax
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"According to Johnson, al Sadr's forces in Najaf — much like al Zarqawi's in Fallujah — are committed to fighting to the death. But American troops in the region are equally committed to killing them."

Get some!


6 posted on 08/16/2004 8:31:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: LavaDog

"Get Some" ??/

HE//----GET EM ALL!!


7 posted on 08/16/2004 8:36:10 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: LavaDog
Devil Dog BUMP!!

Semper Fidelis

8 posted on 08/16/2004 8:39:53 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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It's God's job to judge them, it's the Marine's job to arrange the meeting. Oooorahhhhh !!!


10 posted on 08/16/2004 8:51:38 AM PDT by stumpy
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does anyone else get as big as laugh as I whenever they show footage footage of terrorists training complete with jumping through rings of fire, crossing monkey bars, jumping through vacant windows and doing that body roll thing?

looks more like traveling roadside circus training.


11 posted on 08/16/2004 8:53:17 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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" . . . holy city of Najaf."

There's that 'holy' word again. Only applies to islamic places, it seems. Oh yeah, they copyrited the word and will bomb out anyone else that uses it unless its used to designate an islamic place.

Rooters Special Report: Islamic terrorists complained to the UN, the Geneva Convention, the ICC, and allah today after Iraqi and U.S. forces destroyed 10 holy outhouses and 6 holy port-a-potties in Najaf.

12 posted on 08/16/2004 8:55:21 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: LavaDog
Eagle, globe and anchor BTTT.
Semper Fi ...
13 posted on 08/16/2004 9:04:44 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67 - '68)
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To: stumpy

To quote Gunnery Sergeatn Hartman fron "Full Metal Jacket":

"God has a hard on for Marines, because we kill everything we see. He plays His games, we play ours. To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls. . . ."


14 posted on 08/16/2004 9:16:34 AM PDT by Salgak (don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
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To: LavaDog

FIRE FOR EFFECT!

Semper Fi,


15 posted on 08/16/2004 9:18:44 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (Sniper: "One shot, one kill". Machinegunner: "One shot, one kill...again, & again & again".)
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Awesome. Our troops are the best in the world, both in their resolve and restraint they demonstrate.
What I dont get is why the hell Iraqis are not furious with this guy, al-Sadr?? He supposedly is a Shi'ite religous cleric, a "denfender of the Islamic faith." Hes got a strange way of showing it, though - takes over one of Islams holiest shrines and cemetaries, using them as shields to wage military operations from and NOW I hear threatening to blow it up!! It sounds like this cleric title of his is all a smokescreen. He and his army dont sound any different then al-Zarqawis bunch - a terrorist hiding behind religeon to justify violence & mayhem.


16 posted on 08/16/2004 9:21:36 AM PDT by wingsof liberty (Marines - the few, the proud, the best!! But wheres the anger from the Iraqis?)
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There is perhaps "no better combined-arms raid force in the world" than a Marine Expeditionary Unit, Col. Jeffery Bearor told National Review Online Friday. Unfortunately for Shiite firebrand Moqtada al Sadr, that's just the force that has been brought to bear on his Mahdi-army militiamen in and around the holy city of Najaf.

Sucks to be Sadr, don't it?

17 posted on 08/16/2004 9:22:08 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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What I dont get is why the hell Iraqis are not furious with this guy, al-Sadr??

Many are, and they are the ones providing the Coalition forces with LOTS of intel on Sadr and his friends. An untold story about Fallujah was the fact that after the Americans 'pulled out', many of the terrorists mysteriously started showing up dead cause local folks had ratted them out, and our guys and the Iraqi forces went in and killed em without fanfare.

18 posted on 08/16/2004 9:30:35 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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This " Sacred ground" crap is really a bunch of BS.
It is worldwide. Here in California, one tribe didn't want construction on " Sacred Ground". But when their opportunity for a Casino came along, it didn't matter anymore.
There should be a rule, similar to the idea that a white flag is surrender, and you can not shoot the bearer.
NEW RULE: IF ordinance comes out, sacred is GONE, and ordinance goes in.
" Get Some" goes back to Viet Nam. It was shouted out as " Spooky" ( DC-3, then later, Spectre, AC-130)flew over and poured down ordinance. This action was known as " watching Spooky work out".


19 posted on 08/16/2004 9:36:25 AM PDT by Ramonan (You never get something for nothing.)
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GET SOME, BOYS!!
20 posted on 08/16/2004 9:44:49 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Leftists don't acknowledge that Reagan won the cold war because they rooted for the other side.)
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