Great e-mail! I loved it! But then I am one of those old time military warriors - I believe in shoot first and ask questions later.
Like Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest said -"War means fightin, and fightin means killin."
Posted on 12/12/2001 8:16:46 AM PST by bigeasy_70118
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: Informal SITREP - Backdoor message from a SOF guy on the ground. ..
(Nearly a month ago...) November 11, 2001
Bizarre, It's (expletive) freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but them (expletive) scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement. It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I'm a romantic.
I've said it before and Ill say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rockpit (expletive) ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs. Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those "tent cities of the walking dead" is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
And let me tell you something else. I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. Its what they do. Its ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. (Expletive) cavemen with AK 47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. I'm freezing my (expletive) off on this stupid (expletive) hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Judy and Bernie and that awful, sneering,pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban "smart." They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is"cunning." The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart. They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it. OK, enough.
Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm getting good at it. Please tell my fellow Americans to turn off their TV sets and move on with their lives. The story lineyou are getting from CNN is utter (expletive) and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. We'vegot this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sitaround analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. You wanna help? Buy some (expletive) stock, America. Saucy Jack
Anyway I got fired up when I read it, so I figured I'd post it for you guys.
Great e-mail! I loved it! But then I am one of those old time military warriors - I believe in shoot first and ask questions later.
Like Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest said -"War means fightin, and fightin means killin."
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PS: 70115.
This thread is about the same "email" about a week earlier
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Please tell my fellow Americans to turn off their TV sets and move on with their lives. The story lineyou are getting from CNN is utter (expletive) and designed not to deliver truth...
Yep, this is a Marine all right. :-)
2) I am not a moron and know 90% of the nonsense posted on the net is BS
3) My buddy in the USAF frequently forwards me stuff, even prior to the war in Afghanistan, that soldiers have written. So I had no reason to doubt its veracity.
4) I attempted to do a search prior to posting but couldn't find it. Mainly b/c I couldn't guess what the key words would be for something likes this.
5) You guys really are a bunch of condescending f---s. The minute anything is posted for a second time or might be fake, you jump down that person's throat. Why waste band space criticizing the person for posting something twice? Just let the thread die.
The "BS" meter was pegged on this forwarded e-mail. Sorry you took offense but I don't seen anything wrong with pointing out the flaws. Nothing personal. I've posted things here that were quickly taken apart by my fellow Freepers. That's what this site is all about. Separating the wheat from the chaff.
What tipped me off was the scorpions. Scorpions don't attack people. Most people are bitten because they inadvertently step or sit on one. More commonly, scorpions will crawl inside your boots or clothing at night if you are camping out. But I never heard of them attacking people.
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