Final steps of dead men walking [Fallujah - Great article]

The Times (UK) ^ | 11/15/04 | James Hider

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

The guy on the right has a lip full of chewing tobbacco. Makes the picture look like he's scowling.

[freakboy]

Sometimes they can throw off the drone, ducking out of sight of the men in whose power it is to summon FA18 fighter-bombers or 155mm artillery strikes. But they have no way of knowing. And, increasingly, as they run they are coming into the crosshairs of American snipers, crackshots such as Sergeant Marc Veen and his long-barrelled rifle, Lucille. Yesterday morning he spotted a black- clad man with an AK47 assault rifle peering round a corner 500 yards from the villa where Cougar Company of the Seventh Cavalry has set up a forward base.

He shot the man in the stomach: he fell, but kept crawling, so Sergeant Veen shot him again in the shoulder. Still the man tried to move away, so the sergeant blasted him with his 50-calibre machinegun.

This reminds me of the onld nintendo game Hogan's Alley: Except, there is no worrying about shooting a cop, an old man, or a lady.

[freakboy]

I can't wait until they release a video game.

[freakboy]

Don't hold your breath waiting for any of the MSM to report this as a success.

[Ben Chad]

Marking this to print and send to a young Marine in Ramadi.

[Little Bill]

You are off by 700 years.

[FrankRepublican]

Note the pro-American Iraqi officer was a Kurd. We should have been working more closely to build an army with Kurds. The Kurds have talked about independence but they have said they will remain as part of Iraq.

[KateatRFM]

Last night I saw a bunch of fat nerds from Western New York protesting the 'attack on Fallujah' from their clean, safe, unthreatened suburban neighbourhood.

If I had the power I would transport every one of these protesting idiots right into downtown Fallujah and make sure they toured every one of the torture sites and viewed all the CDs of beheadings.

Then I would leave them there to make their own way home. Or not.

[NittanyLion]

Yeah, I had the same thought. That's right out of a Tom Clancy novel...

[The Mayor]

This is what should have been done last April.

I have been saying the same thing for months and months....
How many lives have been lost due to this tactical error. Negotiate my a$$!

[Uncle Vlad]

This is where we veer sharply away from the leftists...they would bemoan the death of these wicked, worthless scum. They would even say the death of these vile things was a stain on America and a sign of evil itself.

Aren't you glad the moral relativist mouth breathers didn't win the election? I could just hear diplomatic "geniuses" like Richard Holbrooke and Madeline Albright telling us, "It's not that simple; there are varying shades of gray," until a terrorist's nuclear weapon exploded in the United States. No thanks. The grown-ups are in charge.

[beebuster2000]

BUG HUNT

[castlebrew]

I'd hazard a guess that the reporter couldn't tell Ma Deuce from a .50 cal. Barrett sniper rifle. A sniper would more likely have the latter than the former

[TexasCowboy]

Yeah, the clue was in his description: "...long barrelled.."

I've never seen a short barrelled .50 caliber Barrett.
But then, this guy might think a 7.62 or a 5.56 was "long barrelled", too!

[STARWISE]

And I LOVE that we have this man, ever vigilant, indefatigible and unrelenting in our course .. he *IS* the very personification of indefatigible: incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless

Thank God for Rummy.. God Bless him .. I so hope he's with us the next four years.

Don't MISS seeing the raw battle footage from Fallujah -- it's the top left link on Drudge .. it's COMPELLING and really really raw. God bless these brave warriors.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[ErnBatavia]

And, increasingly, as they run they are coming into the crosshairs of American snipers, crackshots such as Sergeant Marc Veen and his long-barrelled rifle, Lucille.

Lucille???

[matchwood]

"And, increasingly, as they run they are coming into the crosshairs of American snipers, crackshots such as Sergeant Marc Veen and his long-barrelled rifle, Lucille."

"Still the man tried to move away, so the sergeant blasted him with his 50-calibre machinegun. "

A 50 Cal sniper rifle is not a 50-calibre machinegun.

[ErnBatavia]

I hope Lt. Fares Ahmed Hassan is right: "When the people of Fallujah come back and see their houses, they will kick out any terrorists. This will be an example to all Iraqi cities,” the Kurdish officer said."

Me too...but I doubt it in this instance; they get just enough Al Jizm to know to yelp for American reparations.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Kill them all.

They need to be thankful Bush is in charge and not me. No further comment.