Posted on 02/04/2005 11:40:23 AM PST by FlyLow
Captain Deron Huaght is the commander of Forward Operating Base Altun Kapri in Kirkuk, Iraq. His Army unit was among those assigned to convoy ballots to polling places on January 27. Accompanying his unit were Iraqi police, Iraqi Army and Election representative personnel. This is his account of that mission. "We were hit with an IED (Improvised Explosive Device), followed by small arms fire. The firefight lasted over 20 minutes in its entirety. We got four of the insurgency but they destroyed one of our vehicles and wounded one of my men. The police were with us and they fought bravely beside us for the entire engagement. I think, perhaps, if they had not fought as they had, we may have lost much more that day. I walked away from that experience with such a tremendous sense of pride in our policemen. They have often told me that they would gladly take a bullet for us and they would fight to their last breath to prevent the shedding of American blood. That day demonstrated they meant what they said."
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
More bad news for the terrorists and defeatist democrats every day...WE WILL WIN THIS!
Wow. More & more great stories like this coming out.
Paging Senator Teddy Kennedy...........
Found this paragraph:
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ryan of the Army's 1st Calvary Division is another member of our armed forces who feels the media is actively aiding and abetting the enemy. He has made these charges in articles, which have been widely reported, in online publications. Says Ryan, "I just read another distorted and grossly exaggerated story from a major news organization about the "failures" in the war in Iraq. Print and video journalists are covering only a small fraction of the events in Iraq and more often than not, the events they cover are only the bad ones. Many of the journalists making public assessments about the progress of the war are unqualified to do so, given their training and experience. The inaccurate picture they paint has distorted the worldview of daily realities in Iraq. The result is further erosion of international public support for the United States efforts there..."
OO-effin-RAH!
As the election was about to take its place in history, Dan Rather and his CBS News team visited Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment from Madison, Wisconsin...now serving in Lutufiyah, Iraq. The Marines of that company claim he kept trying to bait them with loaded questions, but they kept putting it back in his face. The best came when he asked why they didn't like the media. One Marine responded, "You idiots make the terrorists look like giants whenever they explode a bomb. They're not; they're nothing but a bunch of cowards. But they do know that you guys in the press will eventually beat down public opinion with your constant focus on only the negative." The email says Rather just looked at them with a scrunched up face and left. The Marines concluded the note saying none of them were sad to see him and his traveling circus hit the road.
This gets me to thinking that a SUBTLE reason for the war (agreeing with the stated reasons) was to remove the vestiges of Viet Nam.
Clearly our leaders felt the Iraqis would rise and fight against further tyranny. They just needed the tools and leadership. With proper training and leadership for the Iraqis, America's role as a freedom sponsor will be greatly enhanced. No more will the Kennedy's be able to symbolize Emancipation as a Quagmire or Viet Nam.
The left is clearly against Emancipation!
OK, system will take it , with slight modification.
IRAQISFIGHTBACK
The South Vietnamese fought bravely and mightily once they were trained too. For which they get very little credit. Probably all dead now. Poor bastards.
Thanks for posting this.
Hopefully, we will continue to find out that the real Iraqis are kind and decent people.
Thanks for the ping.
Iraqi's fight back for freedom!
Actually, a lot of the South Viets are in LA, San Jose and Sacramento(?) now.
"The South Vietnamese fought bravely and mightily once they were trained too. For which they get very little credit. Probably all dead now. Poor bastards."
I once worked with a man in Stockton, CA years ago who was once a Lt. in the South Vietnamese army. He endured 17 years in a "re-education" camp just across the border in Cambodia. I got to know him and his wife somewhat and found out he fought in Hue and several other places. He escaped the communists in a rickity boat to Hong Kong and then the US.
He was a fine American who loved this country in ways we take for granted.
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