Posted on 11/11/2004 8:54:52 PM PST by freakboy
Too bad the Slimes writers can't make the GI's sound as heroic as these "Sheethead" cowards. Oh, yeah, the "Black Flag" absolutely terrifies the USMC....
This numbnuts must not have heard of thermal imaging.
I agree. The Times shouldn't be embedded. They slant it to read like a defeat. Their agenda suffocates everything.
A black flag.
How appropriate for cockroaches.
I wonder if writing a letter would do any good.
The "journalists" are the propaganda division of the terrorist network.
Yeah, I didn't get the sense that these Marines were wetting themselves at the sight of (gasp!) a black flag.
They're too busy calling in coordinates.
These tunnels may be problematic. It'd be nice if we could flood the rats out.
Go for it.
they also need a writer - and a copy editor and...
If I turned in something this sloppy to my editor, it wouldn't see the light of day -
Gee, if this was all you read it would be hard to know that the LEATHERNECKS ARE KICKING SERIOUS TERRORIST BUTT!
Thank God for the NYT and Reuters. But for them, I would never hear about the brave, undaunted freedom fighters of the Iraqi resistance. (sarcasm off).
LOL, this piece of trash makes the Marines sound like cornered little rats at the mercy of the omnipotent, deadly terrorists. What a travesty this article is.
Yeah, I'm surprised the Marines don't get scared and go home with all those black flags waving. I was scared just reading about it here at home.
The NYT is worse than Al Jazeera.
"Oh, yeah, the "Black Flag" absolutely terrifies the USMC..."
I think the only person it "terrifies" is the slimes' embedded reporter, but he's way too much of a coward and a biased BSer to admit it. I hope none of our guys have to risk their lives for this loser.
"Its failings notwithstanding, there's much to be said in favor of
journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us
in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde
The Daily Telegraph has an atmospheric article which describes the terrible effect of networked forces on the enemy inside Fallujah.
"I got myself a real juicy target," shouted Sgt James Anyett, peering through the thermal sight of a Long Range Acquisition System (LRAS) mounted on one of Phantom's Humvees. "Prepare to copy that 89089226. Direction 202 degrees. Range 950 metres. I got five motherf****** in a building with weapons." A dozen loud booms rattle the sky and smoke rose as mortars rained down on the co-ordinates the sergeant had given. "Yeah," he yelled. "Battle Damage Assessment - nothing. Building's gone. I got my kills, I'm coming down. I just love my job."
... The insurgents, not understanding the capabilities of the LRAS, crept along rooftops and poked their heads out of windows. Even when they were more than a mile away, the soldiers of Phantom Troop had their eyes on them. Lt Jack Farley, a US Marines officer, sauntered over to compare notes with the Phantoms. "You guys get to do all the fun stuff," he said. "It's like a video game. We've taken small arms fire here all day. It just sounds like popcorn going off."
This engagement is all the more chilling because it probably happened at night. Five enemy soldiers died simply because they could not comprehend how destruction could flow from an observer a mile away networked to mortars that could fire for effect without ranging. All over Fallujah virtual teams of snipers and fire-control observers are jockeying for lines of sight to deal death to the enemy. For many jihadis that one peek over a sill could be their last.
"Everybody's curious," grinned Sgt Anyett as he waited for a sniper with a Russian-made Dragonov to show his face one last, fatal time. A bullet zinged by. ...
His officers said that the plan to invade Fallujah involved months of detailed planning and elaborate "feints" designed to draw the insurgents out into the open and fool them into thinking the offensive would come from another side of the city. "They're probably thinking that we'll come in from the east," said Capt Natalie Friel, an intelligence officer with task force, before the battle. But the actual plan involves penetrating the city from the north and sweeping south. "I don't think they know what's coming. They have no idea of the magnitude," she said. "But their defences are pretty circular. They're prepared for any kind of direction. They've got strong points on all four corners of the city." The aim was to push the insurgents south, killing as many as possible, before swinging west. They would then be driven into the Euphrates.
From UAVs wheeling overhead to Marines going through alleys linked by their intra-squad radios (a kind of headset and boom-mike operated comm device), the US force is generating lethal, real-time information which is almost immediately transformed into strike action. Against this, the jihadis have no chance. This doesn't mean (as I pointed out above) that there will be no American losses. The battlefield is too lethal to hope for that. But it does mean that terrorism has unleashed a terrible engine upon itself. Capabilities which didn't exist on September 11 have now been deployed in combat. It isn't that American forces have become inconceivably lethal that is scary; it is that the process has just started.
here is the jerk that wrote it
http://www.saja.org/filkins.html
This crap and I would use another word but don't want my post pulled was written by an idiot, smacks of another Jayson Blair, prolly stateside making it up.
Any person that is actually in the thick of battle will grow fond of the men around him, maybe it is a pali reporter, sure doesn't sound like an American.
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