Fallujah post-mortem ("We are fighting. But the Marines keep coming.")

The Washington Times ^ | 1 April 05 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough

[LSUfan]

Fallujah post-mortem

    Some Marine units moved through Fallujah in November with Arabic translators. The infantrymen wanted to be able to eavesdrop on the terrorists' radio net.

    A Marine told us that, roughly translated, one terrorist was heard to say: "We are fighting. But the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop."

    The Marines, backed by Army tanks, captured Fallujah in 11 days and with it the last large base for Abu Musab Zarqawi.

[q_an_a]

that is a copy of the transmission to Hitler on a morning in June 1944. Some things never change including the HEART of the American in combat.

[jslade]

Amen. I was in the Chicken Poop Air Force. If I had it to do over, I'd be a Marine.

I was a radar navigator/bombardier on a B-52 during Nam. The ability to drop 100 500 lb. AT ONCE ain't chicken poop. Makes a real mess of things.

[awelliott]

I think that was Shalala and she was referring to the Vietnam War. Rather than blaming the politicians for our failure, she said something along the lines of, "we didn't exactly send our best and brightest to fight the war". Outrageous, but perfectly consistent with the klinton adminstration's view of the military.......

[An Old Marine]

If Clinton had allowed that in Somolia, 9-11 would never have happened. Clinton's weakness was perceived by our enemies as America's weakness. Enemies are currently reassessing that perception.

If terrorists or any other petty dictator knows that they are going to have to explain exactly why they think its OK to attack Americans to a US Marine, in person, then they are going to give it a bunch of second thoughts.

All America has to do is let the leash loose and the Devil Dogs will chew through such scum.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Thank God this stuff is in the newspapers! We've got SO MUCH great intelligence it's like an unfair advantage. I'm glad someone is giving up our methods, because I'd hate for the insurgents to fall for this next time. Maybe we should fax them a copy of our Operations Orders, too, just so we don't win so easily?

It's hard to find the good news on the front pages of certain newspapers.

Bad news runs for days.

Also, the ACLU has taken sides with the Mexican invaders against American landowners and citizens.

The commies were kinder.

ACLU members should be shunned,

[TomGuy]

Stop? No way!

[elhombrelibre]

This was a brilliant operation.

[An Old Marine]

Well said Guns.

Semper Fi Brother.

[snippy_about_it]

The Freeper Foxhole Revisits The Invasion of Okinawa (4/1/1945)- April 01, 2005

[GrandEagle]

And the list continues to grow.....

[11Bush]

There are not enough china-men in the world to keep a Marine division from going where it wants to go.

I think I got the above quote from Chesty correct, but the meaning is the same then and now.

[Youngman442002]

We are your best friend...and your worst enemy...

keep it up boys.....oooh rah

[oh8eleven]

"We are fighting. But the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop."
And we never will. Semper Fi ...
.

[speed_addiction]

I made a video with clips of the 9-11 attacks at the beginning and ending with clips of the Marines kicking off in the insurgents' ass in fallujah. one of the clips has a quick interview with a young Marine talking about his day,

"I went up on the roof and one of the bad guys tried to shoot me. He missed. I tried to shoot him, he tossed a frag. I ran away from the frag, tripped over a dead body, one of theirs not ours. Tried to flush him out. Tossed him a frag, he tossed it back. Ran away from the frag. Tripped over the same f**cker again. We're about to go up there and try to flush him out again." I was very proud of this young Marine.

I have emailed this file to several people. Have never been able to get it hosted.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Photo of the year.

[TC Rider]

A Marine told us that, roughly translated, one terrorist was heard to say: "We are fighting. But the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop."

Duh, that's what Marines do!

[wtc911]

Today is the 60th anniversary of the Marines' going ashore on Okinawa.

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Two Marine Divisions and Two Army Divisions. In fact the invasion of the Rykuyus had begun a week earlier with an Army only landing on one of the outer islands. Thgat landing was strongly opposed but the KIA ratio was something like 80 US to 650 Japanese.