Posted on 02/20/2006 10:31:59 AM PST by dead
An Iraqi mayor has written a dramatic letter to the commander of coalition forces, praising U.S. troops as "lion hearts" and "knights" for liberating his city from al Qaeda terrorists.
The emotional letter from gallant Tal' Afar Mayor Najim Abdullah Abid Al-Jibouri to Gen. George Casey is circulating among military families over the Internet and has created a surge of pride in troops.
Al-Jibouri's letter calls soldiers of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, who carried out recent anti-terrorist operations in Tal' Afar "lion hearts," who "bristle with the confidence of knights in a bygone era."
He said the troops transformed his western Iraqi city from a "ghost town, in which terrorists spread death and destruction, into a secure city flourishing with life."
"We see them in the smile of every child, and in every flower growing in this land."
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Col. H.R. McMaster, commander of the regiment's 4,700 soldiers, told The Post in an e-mail from Iraq: "It is a moving tribute to our courageous, disciplined, tough and compassionate troopers…
"Our city was the main base of operations for . . . Zarqawi. The city was completely held hostage by his henchmen . . . Our streets were silent and no one dared to walk them," al-Jibouri wrote in the letter.
"Their savagery reached such a level that they stuffed the corpses of children with explosives and tossed them into the streets in order to kill grieving parents attempting to retrieve . . . their young," he added.
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The mayor's letter to Casey is being handed out to families at homecoming ceremonies at Fort Carson, adding a sense of "mission accomplished" to the joy returning soldiers and their families are experiencing...
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I wonder if the media airheads will try to spin this to Bush's detriment somehow.
THANK YOU! I will send this letter out to several libs, who will no doubt, say it's BS, before they even read it and go on being MSM-brainwashed idiots. I wonder what it will take to get them to pull their heads out of the sand.
"...adding a sense of "mission accomplished" to the joy returning soldiers and their families are experiencing..."
The words "mission accomplished" will send the lefties into delusional denial land.
dead..to what? Ironically I'm a Knight's Templar(York Rite Mason)and our order is quietly passing into history as our old guys die off with no new young guys to replace them. We're the guys who used to march in parades with plumed hats and swords, all but gone now...and yet here are our troops as crusaders in the middle east, continuing the crusades begun a 1000 years ago. And then there's this nut in Iran, trying to be the modern Saladin like saddam thought he could be. Where is he now?
I hope this was revealed with the permission of the Mayor. For there is great danger he will be "the late mayor." With that crusader imagery he likely is Christian doubly dangerous.
LOL!
This is a picture of Mayor Najim Abdullah Abid Al-Jibouri and commander of coalition forces, Gen. George Casey, high-fiving children in the streets of Tal' Afar.
He doesn’t seem to be hiding his appreciation of our troops.
I don't know if the mayor wrote that letter in English or if that is the translators version. The word "lionhearted" has entered our vocabulary, meaning "extraordinarily courageous." I don't know if either the mayor or the translator was conciously aware of the word's etymology in English.
Thanks for finding this magnificent statement.
I have just received and advance copy to the Press Release which the Party of Treason/Treason Media will release:
"Of course all Fair-minded people can see that the Bush administration cannot be allowed to get away with this shamelss exploitation of the military by claiming their courage and bravery. He wishes you to think he did rather than the soldiers. How much more politicization of the Iraq tragedy will the American people have to witness before this War Criminal is driven from office?"
Oh... this is awesome! Thank you for the post.
Will GWB be perceived in history as our Lion Heart?
Please elaborate on the Knight's Templar. My father is a
Mason. I didn't realize the connection to the KT.
There was a HUGE amount of respect between Richard Plantagenet (Lionheart) and Salad ed-Din Yusuf (Saladin).
During the battle for Jaffa, Saladin was said to be "lost in angry admiration at the sight" of Richard's defense of the city to his much larger army, and when Richard's horse was killed under him, in an act of incredible chivalry, Saladin sent Lionheart two fresh steeds as a gift.
Richard was equally admiring of Saladin.
I'm not sure that drawing those comparisons was a good thing.
President Bush has been trying to avoid the notion that we are there conducting a crusade.
Just so. Too bad the revisionists liars who currently dominate the history profession won't admit it.
I was struck by the phrase "lion hearts" because, although the connection with Richard I could have been accidental, I doubt that it was.
Read "The Templars" by Piers Paul Read.
I think that there was a period of time when a sanitized version of the Crusades went unchalleneged, and that now, a revisionist version may be over compensating for the earlier, Tolkienish version.
There were a lot of good things about the Crusades, and a lot of bad things too.
There is a whole lot to be learned about Outremer, the kingdom of Al-Andalus, and the Crusades in general that's pertinent to today.
Thank you for this. Brings tears to my eyes!!
Please share this (if you haven't already) on the "Canteen" thread.
Nah. She knows her a$$ is bigger. She does confuse it, however, with the hole in her head.
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