Posted on 05/13/2005 12:15:30 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
Look this stuff is terribly serious. Some our guys are being KIAed, WIA, I hate that.........but it is a total riot to read: "Those who are resisting are neither Arabs, nor foreigners," said Mohammed Abu Taha. "Let them (the Americans) close the border with Syria and see how the resistance will continue."
The Arab mind! Somehow I was under the impression that this area was mostly populated by Arabs. Perhaps I am dumb. I fully realize this article contains lots of politcal horse manore, but also gives a partial update of what is happening in operation Matador.
/sarcasm
Love the way they worded the headline.
/endsarcasm
The town is not resisting, it's the jihadis that have taken over the town. Dolts!
Looks like we identified this area as the base for Iraqi terrorists and have brought in several cases of whup ass.
If they want to take it from you they will. You punks don't have the comprehensive fire power to stop a 15th rate power.
Sure you will, buddy. Like you did in Fallujah.
Yea, right. Just like they did in Fallujah.
time to "Fallujah" the place
Isn't it great how they love to relate the headline to the story. These marauding terrorists take over a town and hide among the residents to launch their attacks and the oh-so-objective journalists/editors come up with a headline saying that the border towns are resisting the US forces. The towns aren't resisting anybody; they're just trying to stay out of the crossfire.
Why is this village still standing?
Make an example of these Christian killers.
"These marauding terrorists take over a town and hide among the residents to launch their attacks and the oh-so-objective journalists/editors come up with a headline saying that the border towns are resisting the US forces."
We must always keep in mind. The area....west and east of the Euphrates on this longitude, to be a safe haven for fleeing terrorist and local Baethist insurgents. Obviouse to our Army/Marine Intel, and less obviouse to us, was the need to finally put an end to it. Perhaps our guys have waited for so long, in order to map out the whole area as to what "training camps" where still somewhat active, what key tribal leaders in all the involved towns where working with whom in the insurgency etc.. So as usual, it took time to get to the point where we would go in. Clearly a different story then the L/MSM..and their organs in the mid east newsmedias, paints that the US military is constantly outsmarted by these brave and super intelligent desert warriors.
"The towns aren't resisting anybody; they're just trying to stay out of the crossfire."
Those that are "patrolling the streets etc." are part of the insurgents. They are hard core Sunni tribes who where beholden to Saddam in times past.
".....he had them flayed alive and impaled on the stakes.."
Somehow I think our honor bound Marines think JDAM, rockets,
TOW missiles, 155 artillery, 81mm mortars, M16's, iron bombs, M240 SAW's etc, somehow are the equal of impaling the insurgents on stakes dipped in hog fat. Then again I may be wrong.
Yea, King Pul as known in the OT, sure was a tough old bird, he esentially rebuilt the Syrian forces and kicked ass, and left Shalmaneser V with a vast empire all the way down to Egypt.
"Then again, as he himself was from the neighborhood, thus he knew whom he was dealing with and what was likely to work with them. JDAMs, rockets and the rest are not as picturesque as the old-fashioned impalement, and thus their convincing power is much smaller."
Perhaps you should bump the idea up to the DoD. Guess with all the coming base clossing, we could afford to bump the next request for military budget approvals to contain a few million bucks for our timber industry (must be made from USA trees by USA companies), to start making wooden stakes for our men to carry with them. Suggest eastern hard woods such as hickory. Guess the hog fat might be a problem however, if it is not disquised as lubricant or something, but then it would lose the desired effect you seek.
Surely once instructed on Pileser's wisdom, our honorable Marines and Soldiers would have no objection to carrying an additional two pounds or so.
The men will not have to carry too much weight, as the stakes are reusable.
"The men will not have to carry too much weight, as the stakes are reusable."
Darn, why didn't I think of that. You are already saving the American taxpayer's money. Plus there is no need to have to carry a bottle of sterilization fluid, when the stake is used some twenty or more times.
Even more money could be saved by following through on TP 3rd precept and selling the survivors into slavery. The Saudis might buy.
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