[Former Military Chick]

A Marine inspects rubble caused by suicide bombings last week that were part of a coordinated insurgent attack on a Marine base in western Iraq.

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[ChefKeith]

BUMPITTY-DO-DA

Keep kicking terrorscum butt guys!!!!

[Former Military Chick]

It took some time, but I finally found an article that was NOT from the USA Today that provided American's the masterful job our Marines did and how we should salute each and everyone of them.

Frankly, I thought and it says on the excerpt thread that the USA Today is allowed but only title and link. Which is what I did, the Military.com had reproduced the article and I gave express background it was yanked. I really try hard but on this one I do not get it. My fatigue may sound like I am whining but I really want to do the right thing in the future.

Nevertheless, getting off my frustration high, I found this article amazing. Again you can find more if you go to Military.com.

[Route101]

might consider....pulling our guys out and capet fire bombing the area...or is that not p.c.?

[NewYorker]

God bless and protect our fine troops fighting the good fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Mount Athos]

Thanks for finding and posting this really interesting article.

I'm having a hard time conceiving of the explosion from that fire truck, that could crack foundations well inside the base when the explosion occured outside. Amazing. Thank goodness they failed, it could have been horrible.

[devolve]

        

[dennisw]

Git 'er done. Waste 'em! The only good insurgent (terrorist) is an insurgent who assumed room temperature.

[csvset]

Allah Fubar!

[katykelly]

Thanks for posting this. My son just returned from Al Qaim. He's home on leave. I'll make sure he sees this. Thanks again.

[norwaypinesavage]

Good Post. However, leave it to the WaPo to take a good story and make it as bad as possible. To quote: "The insurgents distracted Marine guards with well-aimed mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, then launched three successive suicide bombing strikes in an attempt to blow up the base and overrun it. The attack "demonstrates an extremely mature and capable insurgency". The attack presents a new challenge for the U.S. military. The Marines believed they had scored a decisive victory, tempered only by the realization that they faced an adversary perhaps more sophisticated than they had known."

In reality, their guys died, and our guys didn't. I believe this is because the US military is among the best trained, best equipped, most sophisticated, bravest, and toughest military in history. The fact is it was Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Butler (and othere like him) who stood alone to face down an oncomming explosives laden truck that stopped the attack. Thank you Marines. God bless the USA.

[untenured]

This true-life nightmare occurred on Monday last week. The attack on this remote Marine outpost abutting the Syrian border caused only minor injuries, but it signaled a dramatic change in the methods of the insurgents, who have staged mostly guerrilla-style hit-and-run attacks against the U.S. military for two years.

In interviews and in after-action reports, Marines who successfully defended the base that morning described a sophisticated assault that involved 50 to 100 insurgents.

Assuming this is true, what does that say about the state of the insurgency? I know nothing about military matters, and I'm wondering if this change in strategy (which seems suicidal to me, in that lightly armed enemy seem to be attacking heavily manned and armed bases) signifies strength or weakness.