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FReegards,
RebelTex
Posted on 11/17/2004 3:30:32 PM PST by snopercod
Semper Fi, Marine from the 11th MEU..My last duty station was MCB Camp Pendleton before I retired.
Keep the faith.we are there with you in spirit and we are so proud of all of you. Hang tough.
BTW that guy Kevin Sites is from our area and you might be happy to know he is getting flak from folks who write to the letters to the editor of our lib rag paper here. HE got thumped today!
Semper Fi
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I will stand behind this Marine and all of our armed forces. He did what he was trained to do and more power to him.
Let me tell you something...I have a kidney stone that hurts so bad it makes me cry (I'm a girl, girls cry easily) but this letter made me sob.
I detest the MSM.
They have become blatantly anti-American, and I think most folks who still read/watch them only do so out of laziness and boredom.
Good luck with your stone. I've heard they are very painful.
Our reader Haider Ajina phoned his father in Baghdad for an update on Iraqi sentiment concerning the Marine killing. Haider sends us the following message:
"I just got of the phone with my father in Baghdad. I asked him what is the reaction of the Marine killing the Injured Iraqi in the Mosque in Felujah. His first words were "Good riddance.""People are not giving it a second thought. Any terrorist who attacks soldiers from Mosques has no sanctuary. Any terrorists who fake death to kill in a mosque deserve no mercy. He says Iraqis (including Sunnis) are fed up with the terrorists and want them eliminated.
"There was much uproar about the brutal kidnapping killing of Mrs. Margaret Hassan. Iraqis are upset outraged and disgusted with her brutal abduction & killing. She helped us, helped the poor & needy and this what the terrorist do to her and her family.
"He says we must stay strong, united and relentless in the pursuit of the terrorist. Baghdad had relative calm over the last few days. People are even going out in the street till 9:30pm now.
"Please spread the message, let America Know that the Iraqis are with us, grateful and want us to stay strong and get stronger so that we can all defeat terrorism.
Thank you very much for posting the update, snopercod.
It's very encouraging that the Iraqis understand how much our brave young men and women are sacrificing for them.
Wish I could say the same for the anti-American media!
Greg Palkot on Fox is the only reporter I trust -- and a very courageous young man to boot.
He did his job and honorably--the only good insurgent is a dead one.
Just think of the uproar against the Marine if the insurgent had killed the reporter.
The reporter is either insane or lacks common sense. The picture he took does NOT explain what happened. Given that the insurgents are fanatics, there is no evidence that the Marine did anything wrong. He did his job--thank God and I hope and pray that ALL our Marines are defending us!
After seeing your contact information, I was inspired to immediately write this email to the USMC Public Relations Section. Thank you very much for providing their email address. Maybe this community can flood the Marines with a couple of thousand emails and letters in support of this young Marine HERO, and maybe they'll get the message and come out in support of one of their own.
Public Relations Section
United States Marine Corps
Dear Sirs:
That Marine who finished off that terrorist did exactly the right thing in the situation, and should be returned to his unit immediately, case closed. The ratpuke media doesn’t tell the rest of the story, and quite frankly, I don’t know why you haven’t moved heaven and earth to get that story out.
The story I speak of, is the fact that one of our Marines was killed the day before this episode, when an injured terrorist blew himself up, and took that brave Marine with him. I am trying to get the facts straight, but it appears to me that the Marine in question might well have been the cover for the Marine who was killed, and so was a direct witness to what had happened less than 24 hours before.
If I had seen that happen before my eyes, and almost been killed in the same incident, you can be damned sure that on subsequent missions of this type, I would make sure every last one of the miserable terrorists I encountered in a closed room was dead, so he couldn’t take my fellow Marines, and myself, with him.
I can’t believe this is even an issue. Get some balls, get behind your fellow Marine, and tell the world what really went on – THE WHOLE STORY. And don’t worry about public opinion…any Genuine American Patriot, which I think are still the majority of this country, will back this young Marine till our dying breath. Remember, the old media, aka the msm, is NOT the United States. In case you didn’t know it yet, collectively they HATE the United States. Screw them, and that jerk reporter who told only half the story. Come on, get this whole matter over with, and get that young Marine HERO back with his unit where he belongs, killing more terrorists before they kill us.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Gray E. Smith
American Citizen and Patriot
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