[SMARTY]

I actually wish the terrorists had a flag and a country which would claim them.

As it is, fighting with IED's against their own and against the coalition does not permit us to attach the shame and utter unmanly cowardice of such tactics to them directly.

Just the same, we know where they are and their tactics are not proudly owned by any free nation or by any honorable person.

[Liberty Valance]

Good post. Every country should be held responsible for their own terrorists and suffer the consequences of breeding and harboring them and letting them loose on Iraq. We could start with IRAN, SYRIA and SAUDI ARABIA.

[TomasUSMC]

I actually wish the terrorists had a flag and a country which would claim them.

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Your wish has come true. Syria and Iran. The problem now is why our President does nothing about it? Syria and Iran are supplying the terrorist. We need to be smashing those two regimes, not patrolling and making our troops sitting ducks.

[astounded]

This is the same situation the Marines faced in I Corps in 1965-1967, when the majority of combat casualties were from booby traps (IEDs, today). Same with the US Army in II Corps. Faceless enemy that at the time chose to hit and run, until late 1967 and into 1968 and Tet.

I'm not trying to minimize the loss of 7 Marines one day and 14 the next in ambushes, but it wasn't uncommon to lose 20 or 30 to as many as 60 US servicemen in individual large-scale ambushes in SEA in 1967-1969. The main difference then was the VC often stood and fought after triggering their ambush, unlike the raghead bastards who are basically cowards. I'm shocked they could wipe out 6 USMC snipers, but maybe those guys were green? How did they walk into this? Were they betrayed from the inside, like US personnel often were in recon units?