What's the price of Iraqi lives?--US military is behaving more like Barbarian hordes

Gulf News ^ | 5-22-06 | Linda S. Heard

[olezip]

Thanks, Coop. Well, then. I will be able to sleep tonight knowing that one problem has been taken care of. No need to stay awake worrying about the terrorists in the Sunni Triangle keeping their base of operations. I have seen little in the news to reduce my outrage at the burning and dragging of charred bodies in the Sunni Triangle by cowardly vermin in dirty nightshirts.

[2ndClassCitizen]

Murtha aids and abets the enemy in a time of war, ie. treason.

Tokyo Rose was a legitimate target in WWII.

[smoothsailing]

Yeah, maybe I've got the wrong girl, it's the pictures some freepers post whenever Maureen Dowd's name is mentioned.

Coming up on Hannity & Colmes "Why some conservatives are questioning Murtha's Profile in Courage Award".

[daybreakcoming]

Good for you. Make his (Murtha) staff miserable and he will not have a good day. He should never have a good day again.

[SevenMinusOne]

I would envision a joint effort with Iraqi soldiers and officers and our allies.

The war would be over (and won) if we had done that a couple of years ago, or just after our contractors were burned and their bodies dragged through the streets. Would be helpful if we had real men instead of lawyers running this war, IMHO.

The reality is a couple years ago we couldn't have conducted the Op you envisioned (with the needed Iraqi units) as they weren't online nearly enough then -

To suggest we don't have "real men" running this war is complete foolishness (at best) and utterly disgusting (at worse). We have real men not only running this war but ten's of thousands of them putting their as$es on the line 24/7 -

Furthermore to suggest "this war" could have been over (and won) a few years ago simply shows you don't have a true understanding of this war and what we are facing.

The bottom line is we have fought and continue to fight the most successful unconventional war in history. Since Sept 11th, 2001 our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another...we have not suffered one.

And while without question JAGs have slowed our progress at times and have likely allowed an HVT or two to remain at large....on the whole of this war they have not stopped us from being amazingly successful.

Furthermore we have a both a CIC and SecDef that completely understand this war we are in...and what has to be done in order to stay effective.

[olezip]

"To suggest we don't have "real men" running this war is complete foolishness (at best) and utterly disgusting (at worse). We have real men not only running this war but ten's of thousands of them putting their as$es on the line 24/7"

That I agree with 100%! However we had eight years under the Clinton Administration to infest our military with operatives or at least twist the rules to be "politically correct." Being politically correct simply means placing something illogical ahead of common sense; slightly favoring one person over another to meet your diversity goals instead of seeking the absolute best person for the job. Instituting stupid rules to test social experiments or something like that. Just consider the tail hook scandal to see what I am talking about. That scandal was an attempt by the feminists to destroy our military. Also, real men are needed in the Congress; masculine behavior seems to be discouraged by many of our Congressional overseers, especially the socialist Democrats and cohorts that might be classified as the enemy within.

I suspect that we did not purge the military of the Clintonista operatives; they are not real men (or real women). I also still am concerned that we are making some of the same politically-motivated mistakes that we made in Vietnam, especially those outside of the CIC and SecDef. With scum like Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy, former President Carter, Madam Half-bright, and many more on the outside just hoping against hope that we fail. This does not help. This however, should help to clarify what I meant by real men. God Bless our military and God Bless the USA!

[Dave Elias]

"IF YOU CAN'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, THEN PLEASE STAND IN FRONT OF THEM...YOUWILL GET SHOT!" - QED

[Sisku Hanne]

"Thanks for the link. I just ponied up $20 for Irey. If everyone else here would do the same, we could make a real difference in November."

I see your $20, and raise you $40 ;-)

[Sisku Hanne]

you have to post a pic of Diana, though....new rules!

[SevenMinusOne]

Also, real men are needed in the Congress; masculine behavior seems to be discouraged by many of our Congressional overseers, especially the socialist Democrats and cohorts that might be classified as the enemy within.

Completely agree with you here -

Yet of late we have a segment of our base who seems willing to stick a knife in the back of our warriors off fighting by giving control of Congress to the anti-American, anti-military, anti-success in the WOT Democrat ilk -

Best regards,

[GSlob]

Nah. "Barbarian hordes...". She is illiterate and ignorant. For the beginning, any half-decent barbarian horde would have long ago piled at least one hill of severed heads [say, half a million of these or more per hill] as a sort of a calling card, just to leave a polite reminder of themselves. Then, a genuine horde would wantonly destroy whatever cultural heritage has been there [see Vandals] - but if there's not much to destroy, how then could one be a proper barbarian? I repeat, she is ignorant and illiterate.

[Enchante]

Thanks, Rep. Murtha - your propaganda has been picked up by America-hating loons and your words are helping to UNDERMINE our troops and our cause.

I've seen a number of her articles - I don't know where she lives but she writes like the kind of agitprop commie moron who adopts every possible "Third World" cause, even when her proteges are 7th century thugs who would sooner kill her than listen to her. It's the "Unhold Alliance" of the deranged western leftists and the Islamo-fascists, which David Horowitz has written about so eloquently.

[Enchante]

whoops, typo, that should have said "Unholy Alliance"

[Candor7]

Naturally, the Pentagon is outraged at the behaviour of this bunch of killers. Or is it?>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This POS hasn't figured out that Marines ARE killers?

Why does she think they are there?To make hummus with the natives?

Heard, Just.............................

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>We have witnessed enough to know that the US military is behaving more like Barbarian hordes than a well-trained army.<<<

Linda S. Heard is very disappointed that America's "Greatest Generation" (as named by Tom Brokaw) won WWII by bombing cities and killing civilians.

On another note, my uncles (the ones who survived WWII) are very glad America carpet-bombed Toyko and Berlin, and used the A-Bomb on Japan . . . very glad . . .

[Coop]

I have seen little in the news to reduce my outrage at the burning and dragging of charred bodies in the Sunni Triangle by cowardly vermin in dirty nightshirts.

Then maybe you ought to read a bit more.

[smoothsailing]

[Keisha]

I heard Savage say the same thing, but I would like to know a link to the story about the shooting of civilians in the Sunni Triangle? I just can't believe that, Marines don't kill women and children, who did? did one of theirs do it and to make it look like we did it, kinda like the suicide bomber courage?

[RobbyS]

If our guys are "barbarians", what are the guys who blow up women and children in the market place every day?

[olezip]

Sure. ...got any references?