Cigarette Guy
Posted on 11/10/2004 4:07:27 AM PST by Dog
Todays thread post all comments here...tunnels are being found in the southern part of Fallujah....per CNN's embedded reporter on the scene.
I would like to see this story and picture on the front page of all the newspapers tomorrow. (Not holding breath.)
Screw 'em - keep your head up and keep your head down!
Lt Col, USAFR
Good news UPDATE on the Hague story I posted earlier, slightly off subject but related to the overall WOT:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands Nov 10, 2004 — Police raided a house in The Hague on Wednesday, ending a 15-hour standoff in which one suspect and three officers were wounded, authorities said. Two suspected terrorists were arrested in the raid and a third was detained in another city.
There were several people in the house, and I heard a man yelling, 'I'll chop your head off' and yelling profanities," she said.
Tensions have been high in the Netherlands since Van Gogh's murder in Amsterdam eight days ago, with more than a dozen arson attacks against churches and mosques. An Islamic school in Eindhoven was bombed Monday night, and another in Uden was burned down Tuesday. No injuries were reported.
Six suspects, believed to be members of a radical Islamic terrorist group, are in police custody in connection with the Van Gogh murder, including the alleged killer, 26-year-old Mohammed Bouyeri, who holds dual Dutch and Moroccan citizenship.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=241914&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
WRKO radio in Boston had an interesting Arab analyst on this am. (They have his link on their website, which should be WRKO.com) He was saying that mullahs preach Jihad against the west and the US and that most Arabs have no access to news other than Al Jazeera or street gossip, so they're brainwashed that dying for Allah is great. They don't think there's another option, which is why a democratic Iraq is so important. Iraqi opinion and that of the Iraqi army are changing.Freedom is built upon the free pursuit of truth in a free market of ideas, right and wrong. Our long term success in resolving the Islamijad assault is free expression in Iraq. This will empower much we don't want to hear but it will also become a sanctuary for the truth, which can only spill over into Iran, Syria and the surrounding countries. Self-government and democracy are not ends; these are tools for a better world, the way to it. And that path must be paved with liberty of thought and its expression.They're fighting not for Paul Bremer and the US now, but for their own country and coming elections...so maybe they won't run away. But tribalism is still rampant(Sunnis, Shiites), and the last thing they need is Baathist(Saddam's thugs)(sp.?), back in power. What we're doing is dragging them into modern life, but we have no other choice. Once al Qaeda gets hold of nukes, they'll use them.
Hershey also points to the wisdom of holding off in April. The distinction between then and now is the present use of Iraqi troops and police, in Fallujah and elsewhere. These forces didn't wash in April. They were not ready, and, as Hershey wrote, they were not ready to pledge themselves to the Bremer regime. Now they are fighting for themselves with experience, prestige, and pride, applying the training and tools we have given them.
The impatient and the nuke-em-now crowd are once again proved wrong. And remember: the cries for Now! started in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Yeah me too, as well as to the Nuke em all crowd here.
(though I have to resist that idea often myself)
Cigarette Guy
doesnt he know that smoking will kill him, what is he thinking! </ sarcasm>
You have the chance to drop it now, unless you want us to tell your story for you.
You might not like that. People here know that I am honest and have no reason to lie about you.
Your choice, I don't care either way.
Dolly, I...um...er...well, you know what I'm trying to say here. ;)
Rush was just talking about the *smokin marine*....smoke em, if you got em..
Ceegar Guy
tried to post them next to each other but you guys are to fast..
(somebody picin' on some of you? )
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Marines of the 1st Division use a bolt cutter to take of the handcuffs of an Iraqi, at a makeshift military hospital in Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004. The Iraqi whose name was not released, was found handcuffed in an insurgent hiding place in Fallujah, after being kidnapped 10 days ago in Baghdad's suburb of Abu Ghraib. The Marines believe he was used as a human shield. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
OH BOY, MAIL!
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Marines of the First Division sort out mail at a camp outside Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004. The mail was loaded on a truck for Marines inside Fallujah. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) |
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Great pic!!!....What Division is the 2nd INF??
I should resist the urge to admit seeing 19 potential cruise missile targets.
Women and children seen firing at US soldiers. http://globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oif-phantom-fury-fallujah.htm
Thank you for the great updates!
Global Security sux...just another anti-war site....
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