Posted on 11/21/2004 6:25:07 PM PST by cfhBAMA
Average IQ of a Marine is under 90????
Bullsh*t. Marines don't need defenders of this ilk.
Fallujah attacks expose new risks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285557/posts
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The white flag may be an international symbol of surrender, but in Fallujah it has become another tool of guerrilla war.
US marines on a foot patrol this weekend paid little attention to a man walking along the road and holding a white flag - a common sight as the conflict dies down and civilians pop up to scavenge for food and water.
But this time, US officers say, as the marines came by, the man dipped into an alley, returned with an AK-47 assault rifle, and sprayed the marines with bullets. Two Americans died, and others were wounded.
In a separate incident, marines were lured into an well-coordinated ambush by men with white flags who appeared to signal that they needed help. When marines got close, gunmen began firing from buildings high above.
Marines shoot insurgent who was 'playing dead'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285529/posts
The US military says marines in Fallujah have shot and killed an insurgent who engaged them as he was faking being dead, a week after footage of a marine killing an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi caused a stir in the region.
"Marines from the 1st Marine Division shot and killed an insurgent who while faking dead opened fire on the marines who were conducting a security and clearing patrol through the streets," a military statement said.
Military sources had said that the rules of engagement were looser during the operation launched in Fallujah, for fear that rebels would be disguised, fake death or wear suicide explosives belts.
War crimes?
Oliver North
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/on20041119.shtml
the correspondent who videotaped the shooting, doesn't mention the medical treatment provided to the injured enemy combatants, but he does note that four of the combatants were some of those who had been left behind from the firefight on Friday. If the NBC reporter knew that from being there the day before, why didn't he tell this new group of Marines before they rushed into the room?
None of that is included in the tape, which is now being used to raise Islamic ire at the "American invader." Why? And why did it take more than a day to learn that the Marine seen shooting on the videotape had been wounded in the face the day before if the correspondent knew that when he filed the videotape? Why didn't the original story include the fact that a Marine in the same unit had been killed 24 hours earlier while searching the booby-trapped dead body of a terrorist?
Within hours of the videotaped incident in the mosque, another Marine was killed and five others wounded by a booby-trapped body they found in a house after a gunfight. Why was this not made part of the original story? Even Amnesty International, no friend to the American armed forces, has reported that the Iraqi terrorists have illegally used white flags to lure coalition forces into ambushes. Yet this, too, is absent in the original story.
I stopped reading right there.
A 23 year old is a kid!? You're on crack.
Condescending garbage.
"Average IQ of a Marine is under 90????"
Someone got it all wrong, The Marines are all supposed to be the top 10%.
It's true, I swear, My recruiter told me so.
"You're probably not that bright; certainly not as bright as the highly educated college types lining up to condemn you.
Maybe you finished high school. Maybe you didn't.
The average IQ of an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps is under 90. "
Keep talking, pal. This is precisely the sort of condescenion that loses elections. So keep on talking.
Well-intentioned moron. Even a broken clock is right twice each day (maybe three times, if we're setting the clocks back an hour).
We need to ban embedding of reporters. Our soldiers are not intended to be tour guides, and this incident illustrates that the media is going to take advantage of every opportunity to slime our troops.
I must be on crack, too.
I read the article then I read another one by the same author:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Ian_Robinson/2004/11/14/713559.html
he is hilarious, although he disrespects Marines, that is not the conclusion he comes to, he viciously slams his country for letting in American Vietnam War deserters. And he rips France! This guy is cool check out his other works.
So did I.
I heard that marine recruits are tested by being locked alone in a windowless room with a six foot granite boulder. If they havn't broken it or lost it in a half hour they can't join.
Ian is full of himself. He thinks he is a clever writer. He is a snob pure and simple. His mention of the classes in a stratified society is a fallacy in the United States. He needs to go back to school and actually pay attention.
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