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SAS Soldier Quits Army In Disgust At 'Illegal' American Tactics In Iraq
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 3-12-2006
| Sean Raymet
Posted on 03/11/2006 5:43:21 PM PST by blam
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To: WoofDog123
Not to mention he could probably kill most of his critics here 5 times before they hit the ground.
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posted on
03/14/2006 2:49:56 PM PST
by
rattrap
To: Dallas59
142
posted on
03/14/2006 2:52:01 PM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: spitz
You yanks sound more and more like the French every day, start designing your own white flag. Twats.Youd know..it was the French that walked on your soil during 1066.
hee hee
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posted on
03/14/2006 2:57:59 PM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: Ludicrous
Too bad he didn't serve in the regiment when it deployer to Northen Ireland. He should have seen the SAS treated suspected members of the IRA.
To: relictele
His real name is not Andy McNab either.
To: Wonder Warthog
"And you believe that Hitler WOULDN'T have eventually invaded Britain without US intervention??"
Don't forget we were in it from 39. On our own. Appreciate you got there eventually. You just kind of took your time. In the meantime we stood alone and fought him off. Frankly, if the Russians hadn't have tied him up on the East we would have been beaten before you guys agreed the Nazi's were worth spilling any American blood for. Sad to say Stalin saved us before Uncle Sam.
All this - 'it took us to save your sorry ass' is fine and dandy, Had we fallen, or given up waiting for you - you'd have had one heck of a harder job. We were your aircraft carrier that was kind of hard to sink. You're tone in your two posts above is massivley disrespectful to the many thousands of British Troops, airmen and seamen who served alongside yours.
To: TEXASPROUD
Good evening.
"...,there is something this extremely well trained individual saw that went against the grain."
What this "extremely well trained individual" saw in Afghanistan and Iraq that he didn't see in the now mostly peaceful Ireland and in the generally safe Macedonia is the danger involved in fighting the WOT. Getting shot at and risking getting blown up does go against the grain of some people.
Actually, it bugs almost all people, but most of them just ruck up and continue mission.
We'll see the guy again.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/14/2006 3:18:42 PM PST
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: WoofDog123
Good afternoon.
"...one assumes he knows a lot more about combat and unconventional tactics/warfare than most of his critics here."
That's a lot of assuming to do, based on superficial information.
Serving with a unit does not automatically mean one is a shooter. Someone has to type out the reports.
Okay, that was uncalled for, knowing as little as we know about his service.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/14/2006 3:26:52 PM PST
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: Brit_Guy
"Don't forget we were in it from 39. On our own. Appreciate you got there eventually. You just kind of took your time. In the meantime we stood alone and fought him off. Frankly, if the Russians hadn't have tied him up on the East we would have been beaten before you guys agreed the Nazi's were worth spilling any American blood for. Sad to say Stalin saved us before Uncle Sam." And what, precisely, do you think the Russians were fighting with, other than American supplies??
"Had we fallen, or given up waiting for you - you'd have had one heck of a harder job. We were your aircraft carrier that was kind of hard to sink."
True--but it took our efforts to win it.
"You're tone in your two posts above is massivley
Bullshit--my comments reflect in no way upon THOSE folks (my chemistry prof (who emigrated to the US), flew Spitfires over the Channel). My disdain is for the CURRENT generation of Brits--who seem to have been born without either gonads or brains.
If you think otherwise, I suggest that you osculate upon my posterior.
To: brazzaville
if, as you suggest, he spent his career typing out reports, he still might know more than some of his critics here.
If you find a link on his service record please post it,
To: Btrp113Cav
Good afternoon.
"Maybe he got sick and tired of being in a war zone, and in a conflict with no end in sight."
Yeah, three months in a war zone can really take it out of you.
Just ask john kerry and he will tell you, and tell you, and tell you.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/14/2006 3:58:21 PM PST
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: MoonLanding
Good afternoon.
"I'm sure that this guy is fir real."
Bull. There is nothing about this story that doesn't stink to high heaven.
What is the Brit version of the guy's MOS? Wearing a pretty hat doesn't make you a soldier and serving in an elite unit doesn't make you a combat veteran.
Even if he were a British Audie Murphy, he threw it all away by associating with Mother Sheehan, Media Benjamin and the rest of the anti war enemies of his former comrades.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/14/2006 4:16:26 PM PST
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: WoofDog123
Good afternoon.
"if, as you suggest, he spent his career typing out reports, he still might know more than some of his critics here."
Read the whole post, Woof. I said that my statement was uncalled for and that we know very little about Ben's military career.
All we really know that matters is the fact that he is allied with our enemy. That should be enough for anyone.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
03/14/2006 4:31:39 PM PST
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: blam
He probably upset because our training regimen fails to take seriously the threat posed by fresh fruit.
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posted on
03/14/2006 4:33:50 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(<--- Not always a people person.)
Comment #155 Removed by Moderator
To: spitz
the English will be around long after the US is reduced to an outpost of the Chinese Emipire.And that side of the so-called "pond" is becoming more and more islamic every day.
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posted on
03/14/2006 5:05:56 PM PST
by
Paul_Denton
(The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.)
To: brazzaville
You did suggest it and 'taking it back' a sentence later is not the same as simply deleting the 'taken back' text and never posting it. Blog is not the same as telegraph - presumably what you post, with 'take backs' and all, is what you want to say.
Your argument would make more sense if it was a follow-up 'take back' post to a previous post.
In the future the best way to take something back is 'backspace' or highlight the text and push 'backspace' if you have not already posted it. Otherwise reasonable people will assume you are actually saying the thing you type out then renounce a paragraph later and just being disingenous about it.
To: spitz; darkangel82; Darksheare; MikefromOhio
You yanks sound more and more like the French every day, start designing your own white flag. Twats.Live one.
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posted on
03/14/2006 5:08:10 PM PST
by
Paul_Denton
(The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.)
To: spitz
You yanks sound more and more like the French every day, start designing your own white flag. Twats.
LOL. Sure thing. When the Brits learn dental hygene I'll be worried, NOT before. And as for the French, hmmmm, let's see here, WHO tried for nearly 500 years to take the French over but couldn't, yet the Germans were able to do it in 4 weeks? It wasn't the Russians.......
To: MikefromOhio
The troll PWN3D himself by resorting to insults LOL
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posted on
03/14/2006 5:14:25 PM PST
by
Paul_Denton
(The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.)
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