Posted on 06/16/2005 11:33:19 PM PDT by angkor
All the more reason to flatten Ramadi.
As a soldier recently said: "Fallujah? What Fallujah? It's gone."
Wouldn't that make them terrorists?
Why yes indeed, it would.
But you see, they're Iraqi Sunni terrorists and not Saudi and Syrian terrorists, therefore Ramadi citizens should not be pounded into the dust for being complicit with them.
See how it works? They're "freedom fighters."
(/sarcasm)
It's that sort of illogical and twisted thinking which demands that Ramadi be converted into a pile of gravel. Fine gravel.
Fallujah wasn't flattened. It was heavily damaged but far from having been flattened.
I've been there several times since mid December.
It sounds like Ramadi needs some of the love that only the US military can give.
Someone told me they bulldozed most of the damaged buildings and paid-off the legal owners.
I haven't been there, just circulating hearsay which you've credibly corrected.
Uh, I don't want to go there either.
It is time for truth. Stop the PC crap, the traitor trash talk and visit the wrath of the Christian God on Ramadi, turn it into dust! It's time to take off the gloves, time to face reality...I and most Americans are ready for some major Dixie style a-kickin'!! No need to put off the inevitable, time to Get Some!
"Most" buildings is a bit of an overstatement.
Don't mistake what I'm saying, there was a LOT of damage. It tended to be a case of a building either being completely destroyed or lightly damaged. I didn't see much that wasn't either way.
There was no mistaking that a battle had been fought there.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs.
"Most" would be a majority and a majority (more than half) were heavily damaged. Almost all were damaged to some degree, from broken windows and doors to holes in the walls. From what I saw only about 1/3 were destroyed and the rest were repairable. They make them out of brick and concrete so holes in the walls aren't a huge deal to repair.
In late January there was a LOT of bulldozing going on. Part of why Fallujah is *relatively* calm is that so many people have work rebuilding and are being paid for it.
Sorry, that's not gonna' convince me to go there either :)
A man described as an Egyptian spy was beheaded and his body dumped on a busy shopping street. Warned by the killers to leave it for five days, shoppers pretended not to notice the figure in the brown robe, its head resting on its back.
Four days ago two suspected Shia militiamen were beheaded in the marketplace in full view of traders, said a senior police officer who asked not to be identified. Two boys played football with one of the heads, he added.
It's not too bad!
Series though, I fly everywhere I need to go. Occasionally I convoy but it's a hugh risk.
In Viet Nam people dies by the thousands (tens of thousands?) when Nixon gave in to the procommunist in our news media and universities.
No way will I get on a convoy. Not happening.
We had some sustained incoming yesterday, a few hundred yards from where I was standing.
That's quite enough excitement for me.
Yes, and two of my wife's six Vietnamese relatives who went for "reeducation" are permanently crippled as a result. The guys who believed in freedom and liberty are forced to drive cyclos and moto taxis for a living (their fluent English helps with the tourist trade).
Every Cambodian I ever knew without exception lost at least one relative (and sometimes 5 or even 10 or more) to the Maoist KR.
Yeah, that's what the lefties want for Iraq, for the Middle East, and ultimately for America.
I'm sorry, but I do not trust any of the Guardian newspapers. They are bitterly partisan leftist and anti-American. Take this story with a very big grain of salt.
But they are so full of love and compassion! < /massive sarcasm>
The best way to end war and ensure peace is to kill the enemy.
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