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1 posted on 11/21/2004 6:25:08 PM PST by cfhBAMA
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Average IQ of a Marine is under 90????


2 posted on 11/21/2004 6:28:14 PM PST by squarebarb
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The average IQ of an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps is under 90.

Bullsh*t. Marines don't need defenders of this ilk.

3 posted on 11/21/2004 6:28:34 PM PST by wizardoz (Arafat's funeral was the Wellstone memorial, with guns.)
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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.


4 posted on 11/21/2004 6:30:15 PM PST by FairOpinion (Thank you Swifties, POWs & Vets. We couldn't have done it without you.)
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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.


5 posted on 11/21/2004 6:30:56 PM PST by FairOpinion (Thank you Swifties, POWs & Vets. We couldn't have done it without you.)
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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.


6 posted on 11/21/2004 6:31:35 PM PST by FairOpinion (Thank you Swifties, POWs & Vets. We couldn't have done it without you.)
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The average IQ of an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps is under 90.

I stopped reading right there.

7 posted on 11/21/2004 6:31:39 PM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (In the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.)
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"You're a kid, probably a year or two, or even three, shy of your 25th birthday.

A 23 year old is a kid!? You're on crack.

8 posted on 11/21/2004 6:31:51 PM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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Condescending garbage.


9 posted on 11/21/2004 6:38:06 PM PST by crazycat
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"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.


11 posted on 11/21/2004 6:42:14 PM PST by HarryCaul
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Well-intentioned moron. Even a broken clock is right twice each day (maybe three times, if we're setting the clocks back an hour).


13 posted on 11/21/2004 6:46:44 PM PST by Voice in your head ("The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." - Thucydides)
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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.


14 posted on 11/21/2004 6:48:47 PM PST by Brilliant
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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.


19 posted on 11/21/2004 7:02:12 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (We won. We don't need to be forgiving. Let the heads roll!!!!!!!!!)
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Interesting chap, this Ian Robinson.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285603/posts

20 posted on 11/21/2004 7:02:22 PM PST by FReepaholic (Proud FReeper since 1998. Proud monthly donor.)
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The average IQ of an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps is under 90.

Lie.

21 posted on 11/21/2004 7:03:29 PM PST by bad company (Four more years.)
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I think he means well. It's just hard for the elite to shake off their sense of eliteness.

If he had a chance to spend some time with the marines he'd probably be willing to learn, unlike many reporters.


22 posted on 11/21/2004 7:26:25 PM PST by Cicero (Nil illegitemus carborundum est)
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"The average IQ of an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps is under 90."

BS, and then double BS.


25 posted on 11/21/2004 7:51:23 PM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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