U.S. Marines Battle Enemy Fighters In Fallujah

Fox News | 4/28/04

[JSteff]

Human Shields = Suicide Protesters

[TomasUSMC]

“It’s kinda bad when you’ve had friends who’ve sacrificed everything, then you’ve had to hand it over to someone else,” Corporal Travis Box, staring at the ground in his forward base, said. “We weren’t doing it for tangible things. We were doing it for intangible things like pride and Honor.”

“Pulling back is a sacrifice in itself,” Corporal Kenneth Thorpe, his head low, added. “You do all the preparation. You work up. You’ve worked your whole life for this. You’re ready for the fight, then you get shut down, suddenly, out of the blue.”

Marines are pissed off to the max. Same feeling, from the same troops, was seen in Vietnam. Then as now, the President let us down again. We could have had this place taken 2 weeks ago.

[LS]

I think that's what the Mexican troops said outside the Alamo while Santa Anna's guns were leveling the place and making sure that the final assault only took about 20 minutes instead of a day. I prefer to have Cpl. Box alive and victorious than dead and victorious.

And there is no indication, NONE, that there are any orders coming from Pres. Bush specifically on how to conduct ANY military operations. He did say he wanted the locals to have a shot at some autonomy. Fine. The bad guys aren't going anywhere.

[jokar]

Mark.

[TomasUSMC]

The bad guys aren't going anywhere.

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Oh yeah they are, they will be going into the Army, the Fallujah Protective Army, and then will be getting a better weapons and a check from the President of US.

That is how we react to burning mutilated, hanging, swaying in-the-wind, American bodies.

Kinder Gentler Compassionate might work in Politics but not in the Battlefield.

[LS]

You got a problem, take it up with Krulak. As I say, if he objects to anything---if he thinks its nearly as bad as you say--he has an obligation to resign in protest.