Mookie's' boys make troops take notice

Stars and Stripes ^ | March 30 2007 | Monte Morin

[jmc1969]

The music said it all — Mookie’s boys were back in town.

U.S. Army Capt. Bruce Beardsley and his civil affairs team had barely stepped from their Humvees in this dust-blown quarter of New Baghdad recently when a bank of speakers stacked beside a tattered market began blaring a Mahdi Army militia chant.

“It’s their version of Psyops (psychological operations),” said Beardsley, a 38-year-old reservist and Maryland police officer.

The militia’s return has been marked by a recent spike in roadside bomb attacks aimed at U.S. troops, as well as a rocket or mortar attack on a nearby forward operating base — the first of its kind since the start of the new Baghdad Security Plan.

[South40]

[Rumplemeyer]

fat Boy's head on a pike along side the speakers would be a nice touch.

Gives the rabble an idea of our opinion of their music.

[jmc1969]

ping

[Mr. Jazzy]

The Army needs to fight back with some of the music from the soundtrack from the movie 300!

Some of that stuff will make them drop a load in their pants!

[bnelson44]

Some of you might be interested in this. This is what a typical mission is like for those in an FOB (that is changing a bit now, but still gives you a flavor):

Please keep all of our soldiers in your prayers.

Click this link there is a commercial 1st.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=f27dc0d1-805a-4871-ae88-f8fef7eef997&f=00&fg=email

[SandRat]

FR WAR NEWS!

WAR News at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!

All the News the MSM refuses to use!

Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!

[magslinger]

I was thinking along the lines of rock concert grade amps and speakers and some Toby Keith.

Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly,
And there's gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
It's gonna feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you...
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue!

[Marine_Uncle]

Any way one looks at it, the Mahdi army must be neutralized by force. There is no way to negotiate with hard core Shia Muslims that do not want any foreigner on their soil for any reason. That is the only excuse they have. We liberated them from a real tyrant, give them modern things with open arms, heal their sick, fix their rotten water, and provide more electrical supply stations that assholes then blow up.
Maliki had better start being more of a public statesmen and tell these people the raw facts.
To many of them are simply ignorant and need to be educated.
And he should start by making it clear Mookie abandoned them when he felt threatened.

[Chode]

Let the Bodies Hit the FLOOR!!! see how they like that for awhile...

[JohnBovenmyer]

We need to reissue a classic with updated lyrics. How about "Der Mookie's Face"? How can the left complain; the original won an Oscar—before Gore was even born—even though it was saddled with a star even less articulate than Bush.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

I thought this story was about Mookie Blaylock.