ARC BRITE!!!...
Posted on 09/08/2009 8:26:52 PM PDT by Saije
We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition.
"We will do to you what we did to the Russians," the insurgent's leader boasted over the radio, referring to the failure of Soviet troops to capture Ganjgal during the 1979-89 Soviet occupation.
Dashing from boulder to boulder, diving into trenches and ducking behind stone walls as the insurgents maneuvered to outflank us, we waited more than an hour for U.S. helicopters to arrive, despite earlier assurances that air cover would be five minutes away.
U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes and tree lines — despite being told repeatedly that they weren't near the village.
"We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We've lost today," Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter's repeated demands for helicopters.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
Again, The article is leftwing anti war
“Ganjgal should be levelled in an airstrike that surrounding inhabitants will recount to their grand children and great grandchildren for decades to come as the day a huge fire claimed the village.
The villagers and elders were complicit in this ambush.”
Arc Light!
There is also the print media that also does the work of the left.
If you want to read anything positive about conservatives, you won’t get it in Newsweek, Time, New Republic, Nation, NY times, Wash Post, etc, etc.
ARC BRITE!!!...
DA&* OBAMA PING!
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESS PEOPLE TOMORROW AND DEMAND THAT THE OBAMA INSANITY STOP!! This is treasonous!
Obama’s rules of engagement are asinine. But then, what more could be expected from an asinine president?
Thank you for joining in prayers, Alamo-Girl.
OMG .. the sick and twisted rules of
engagement are utter depravity and
unspeakably vile .. and to my core, I’ve
been so afraid of this and hesitant to say
why.
Well, I’ve been sensing for awhile that in
Obama’s core unAmericanism and Muslim
sympathies, he’s purposely doing this as his
bizarre form of a subtle and sick nod to the
Monster Muslim Taliban and Al Queda .. so afraid,
and dear God, it’s seems more and more real
every day.
Over a month ago, I said .. bring them home,
get them out of there, and it wasn’t because
they can’t win, but because they won’t be allowed
to win. And my reason for that makes my insides
just cringe and scream.
He doesn’t care about our troops; they’re just
convenient speech talking points to make us
think he’s a real CIC.
Dear Lord .. cover Your sons and daughters
in harm’s way with Your protection and
safety. St. Michael, be their defender in
battle ... against all enemies, foreign AND
especially domestic.
Who should we call .. what can we do ? The
Congress won’t help, will they really?
This Blood is on LBJbama’s hands.
Prayers for these Brave Marines
Obama has yet to publish his National Security Strategy.
You Sir, with all due respect, are an idiot if you truly believe an Army unit would purposefully withhold support from a Marine unit.
And, the Vietnam analogies are played out: Different war, and different men it would seem, than those with whom you claimed to have served.
Regards,
Thank you for your prayers, Cindy.
“Whatever we do always leaks,” said Marine Lt. Ademola Fabayo, 28, a New Yorker who was born in Nigeria and is the operations officer for the trainers from the 3rd Marine Division. “You can’t trust even some of their soldiers or officers.”
Sadly..these soldiers can’t trust their own Commander In Chief! Who was that radical anti war chick Obama stuck in the Pentagon? I can’t remember her name right now.
First I cried reading this..NOW I AM MAD AS HELL!
I am joining you in your wonderful prayer:
“Dear Lord .. cover Your sons and daughters
in harm’s way with Your protection and
safety. St. Michael, be their defender in
battle ... against all enemies, foreign AND
especially domestic.”
Who to call? Our congress people. Let them know we are mad as hell..then call into our local AM talk radio shows in the morning and start getting the word out! The press is going to try and hide this Obama caused nightmare and we are going to have to go around them.
Maybe write General Petraeus? I dunno...but it is time to make our voices heard. It’s time to get the good generals turning on Obama’s ‘plan’.
http://www.centcom.mil/en/about-centcom/leadership/
“Boy, do we have the wrong President”
We certainly do. We’ll pay a heavy price for this coup.
You're welcome, Fiddlstix.
Agree, it really is sickening. The change in rules of engagement brought on by Czar Hussein Obama and his Adminstration Czars is an endless nightmare.
Documented blood on his hands for sending those troops into harm’s way without support simply to placate his anti-war leftist fellow-travelers. Disgusting.
And our soldiers who question his right to issue orders are mocked in our courts ?
The AP mentions the McClatchy story but does not mention the ROE aspect. Despicable.
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