Posted on 05/11/2005 3:28:06 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
Now that's what I call a cigarette lighter!!! 8*)
The reason we don't use flamethrowers is due to extreme short range of the man portable systems & all it takes is ONE rifle bullet hitting the fuel tank & the operator finds himself in a spray of napalm ! Very ugly weapon with some very ugly flaws
Yeah, it's just so simple, ain't it?
Not being there, maybe not. However, the idea is offered as a suggestion. You might preface your sarcasm with reasoning, etc. first and go a long ways toward convincing me to see things your way.
At present, though, I am not feeling negotiable. I would take a much harder line around the world regarding our troops. I'll spare you the details.
I like that idea even better. Cut the marines loose.
No surprise there. Why break the momentum?
Field tested in Faluja...They work...so does a D9-R cat...just drive through the house...
Thank you. 20 f'ng posts before someone said it! This article made us look like bad guys!
political backlash in general against napalm and other flame weapons due to a few properly placed photos in the press during VietNam. The one with the little girl running down the street naked, after her village got firebombed, for instance.
Among the four Marines killed and 10 wounded when an explosive device erupted under their Amtrac on Wednesday were the last battle-ready members of a squad that four days earlier had battled foreign fighters holed up in a house in the town of Ubaydi. In that fight, two squad members were killed and five were wounded.
In 96 hours of fighting and ambushes in far western Iraq, the squad had ceased to be....
Lima Company drew Marine reservists from across Ohio into the conflict in Iraq. Some were still too young to be bothered much by shaving, or even stubble.
On Monday, when the Marine assault on foreign fighters formally began, the young Marines of the squad from the 1st Platoon were already exhausted. Their encounter at the house in Ubaydi that morning and the previous night had been the unintended first clash of the operation, pitting them against insurgents who fired armor-piercing bullets up through the floor. It took 12 hours and five assaults by the squad -- plus grenades, bombing by an F/A-18 attack plane, tank rounds and rockets at 20 yards -- to kill the insurgents and permit recovery of the dead Marines' bodies.
Many Marines complained bitterly that commanders had pulled them out of the fight at Ubaydi while the insurgents were still battling, to start the planned offensive. "They take us from killing the people they want us to kill and bring us to these ghost villages," one complained Wednesday on the porch of a house commandeered as a temporary base.
"That's the last of the squad," said another, Cpl. Craig Miller, whose reassignment last month had taken him out of the unit. "Three weeks ago, that would have been me."
Late Wednesday, helicopters flew out Hurley and the remaining members of 1st Platoon for time off. They are to return after the platoon is remade, Marines said.
Another Lima Company platoon commander ordered his men to bed early, in preparation for the next day's operations. Mourning could wait.
"We don't have time," the commander said.
Pretty inspiring stuff--for the enemy.
Just discovered you were in the Navy. Me too. I served from 1965-72, including a tour at NAVSUPPACT Naples, 1968-70.
Excellent idea. Let it linger a while to fume up good.
Small world. I was at AFSHOUTH Naples, Italy from Aug 77 to Aug 79.
Corrected the type.
You really shouldn't be making an attempt to insult. I didn't insult you and it might be wise to let it go. I am not going to debate you on this forum. Hiding behind a computer is cowardice. No further comment.
Agree. Demolish the house. Or, if they keep employing this tactic, perhaps a few water trucks to flood the houses. I'm sure several ghastly solutions can be thought up to deal with this. Makes me rather angry.
You might preface your sarcasm with reasoning, etc.
Oh, woe is me! [sob]
You're not alone. It's subtle at times and more direct at others - but the writer does portray the terrorists in the kind of favorable light I've come to expect from the MSM...
Yesterday I said of a similar LA Times story that the media have their cheerleading skirts and pom-poms on for their beloved "insurgents". This piece of crap from the ComPost leads me to think that the author is actually wearing kneepads and a blue dress for their brave jihadis.
Good Lord, how many US servicemen have been injured or killed as a result of our own media cheerleading for the enemy? From Day 1, this kind of garbage has given them the hope that, if they just hang on long enough, that "The Great Satan" will punk out and go home. How much of the blood spilled over the last two years is on the media's hands?
Right on. The MSM did that to us in Vietnam. Tet was portrayed as a victory for the Communists, when really it was a resounding defeat. Today, the MSM wants us to lose in Iraq. They are not reporting fairly what is actually going on there. Most of the country has been pacified, the infrastructure rebuilt, and democratic institutions taking root. Ms. Knickmeyer has an obvious agenda and her objective is to demoralize the American public and lessen support for the war. Why? An American victory is bad for the Democrat party.
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