[Wiz]

Ping!

[Marine_Uncle]

But don't think follow up on Matador is not in the making. Lots of scum bags to quickly take out in this area when fresh HUMIT and eyes in the skies indicate to do so. There are still foreign and local terrorist in those ten towns or so on both sides of the river. Little has been said since yesterday as how many where herded toward the actual border, e.g. north of Quaim, where our Marines where pushing them to, there is a road that goes by Quaim which the scumbags had to use to flee, and at Quaim and on the east side of the Euphrates we have Marine units positioned to kill anyone advancing toward the border. The new media do not cover this part. In summary, don't think our Marines are all just going back to their camps at this point, for a hot shower,shave, and meal.

[ErnBatavia]

Nine Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2 died in the operation. Forty more were wounded. The statement said the joint-service team's Marines, soldiers and sailors "killed more than 125 terrorists, wounding many others and detaining 39 terrorists of intelligence value."

That ratio's not near good enough to call this exercise much of a success.

[surfatsixty]

Thanks. Prayers for the casualties, especially 1st Plt. Lima, 3/25, which sustained 60% casualties.

3/25 are Marine Reservists from Ohio.

[MarineDad]

"killed more than 125 terrorists, wounding many others and detaining 39 terrorists of intelligence value."

Squeeze the 39 thoroughly.

Then do it again.

Finally, place them into the first category.

Repeat until all resistance ends.

The only way to properly deal with terrorist scum.

These ain't soldiers, folks.

[af_vet_1981]

Don't end the dance.

The music is still playing ...

[PFKEY]

It's reports like this that let me know that GWB is doing his job and this whole Iraq, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, WOT stuff is the real deal and America is far far better off having fought this war now.

[Ramonchito]

The resilience and tenacity of the Iraqi rebels is expected. What the press failed to emphasize is that the uprising has not reached national proportions. Apparently, the majority of Iraqis support the new government and seem to be happy that the Americans came to liberate them. During the Afghanistan war, millions of Afghans lost their lives yet the rebellion against the Russians continued. The Russians were hated by the Afghans and the Russians knew it. This is the reason why the radical Taliban rose to power. The Afghans didn't like the Russians and they were willing to support any government that could effectively kick out the Russians from their soil. In Iraq you don't hear of large battles being fought by American troops or the Iraqi military against the Iraqi insurgents. In Afghanistan, that was almost a daily occurrence in spite of the enormous causalities suffered by the Afghan rebels. The Russians tried every thing to break the will of the Afghans to fight. They resorted to genocide. They tried to destroy the food supply of the Afghan people. But the Afghans were not at all discouraged. They fought tenaciously against all impossible odds.

[Wiz]

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