As Marines go home, Bulgarians keep city secure [Karbala, Iraq]

Marine Link thru Defend America ^ | August 26, 2003 | Army Spc. Benjamin R. Kibbey

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Another NON-UNI*lateral, non-quagmire, pro-stabilization PRO-'awesome Coalition military' NEWS story.

If you want on or off my pro-Coalition/anti-wanker ping list, just ping.

[prairiebreeze]

A big "WELL DONE" to our fine military. God speed to them. God bless them and their families.

Prairie

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[eleni121]

Thanks to the Marines for their superb heroic work. And Bulgarians - sincere best wishes for your professional work in helping Iraqis to achieve their dreams free from terrorism...

[ken5050]

I can't wait for future Bablefish translations from Arabic into Bulgarian...

[Soaring Feather]

bump

[Roughneck]

RC Thanks for all the good pings, I'm still browsing and sending!

[My2Cents]

Poland, Bulgaria...It's interesting that freedom is getting its strongest support from among those nations whose people lived under oppression. I'm all in favor of international help in Iraq, but only among freedom-loving peoples (this would exclude the UN).

[Gritty]

Tell me again why we need UN troops in Iraq?

[blackie]

U.S. Marines ... Big Bump!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[Ax]

I read in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel yesterday that a group of Salvadoran Special Forces soldiers had arrived in Iraq and were placed under the command of the Spanish forces there.

[windchime]

Welcome home Marines bump!

[gatorbait]

I read in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel yesterday that a group of Salvadoran Special Forces soldiers had arrived in Iraq and were placed under the command of the Spanish forces there.


God help the Jihadis , then.The Salvos are good troops, work damned hard, too. HOWEVER,do something incredibly stupid with them and one more batch of 6 dozen sloe eyed goats needs to be readied.

[ThreePuttinDude]

"The local people trust that when the coalition forces tell them that they're going to do something... it will be done," said Lopez, a native of Naperville, Ill. "It's really that trust and confidence the local people have in the coalition forces, that's led to the security environment that we find today."

That's a pretty strong statement. I love the sound of it.

[PhilDragoo]

"The Bulgarians, because of their recent history of developing from a communist country under a dictator into a democracy, have already traveled the road that the country of Iraq is about to travel. So, local Iraqis are very receptive to the Bulgarians because they know they have traveled down that path."

Bulgarians: been there, done that, got the tee-shirt--and the Iraqis gotta have one.

America's warriors spreading the light of liberty.

Imbed more reporters:

[VOA]

I'm all in favor of international help in Iraq, but only among freedom-loving peoples
(this would exclude the UN).

The folks from the former Eastern Bloc know what the deal is.

As for the UN, I presumed they still probably couldn't tell who the good guys in Iraq are
even after their humanitarian mission got blown to bits.
But...I read an article buried in the LA Times the other day that the UN is actually
thinking about considering the murders of their personnel in Iraq as war crimes.

Too bad to think that more UN personnel will probably have to die before Kofi Annan
and his band of fools figure out what is going on.

[radu]

Another great one for mass e-mailing! On it's way out now. :-)

[ChewedGum]

Poland, Bulgaria...It's interesting that freedom is getting its strongest support from among those nations whose people lived under oppression.

Very interesting. It's almost like they understand what evil is or something like that.

Gum

[Spc. Kibbey]

Well, as the guy who wrote this article, a few things I'd like to say:

I think one of the things that took me aback the most was when an Iraqi translator asked a Polish army doctor we were with what he thought of Iraq. He said it was not very different from Poland. I hadn't really thought about it until then, but for the Polish and Bulgarians, the Iraqis don't seem to have it so bad economically.

From my experiences, they have a little harsher, more cynical approach to the Iraqis than the Americans, but I can not find it in me to fault them for that.

I can say this though, and many will dissagree with me, but after I saw the way Kerbala immediately began to fall apart when the Marines left (the police started a turf war with a near-by town the day after the last Marines pulled out), and after seeing some of the way things are going in the North, I am eager to have the Marines back in Iraq, and eager to see whether or not things take a dramatic turn when they roll into their new AO in the North. Semper Fi, good buddies.