Posted on 11/20/2005 2:56:09 PM PST by quidnunc
In the Military Alphabet, AWR is Alpha Whiskey Romeo. In Iraq today, it’s a code term of American soldiers. Whenever they use “AWR” or “Alpha Whiskey Romeo” in their communications, everyone knows what it really stands for: Allah’s Waiting Room. That’s what our soldiers have turned Iraq into for the terrorists, and that’s why our soldiers know they are winning this war.
That’s also why our soldiers have more contempt for MSM journalists and Democrat politicians than the Jihadi terrorists — for at least the terrorists are honest about being an enemy, instead of pretending they’re on your side while stabbing you in the back.
The Democrat distortion of the War in Iraq has become flat-out deranged. Yet for all the “alternate media’s” attempts to tell the truth, Johnny and Suzie Lunchbucket still get most of their news through the MSM, which is why a majority of the Lunchbuckets, according to polls, believe “Bush lied” to get us into the war, and that it is a war we are losing.
Both are lies, which any Democrat on Capitol Hill privy to basic intel reports knows, yet the Big Lie is a proven propaganda tool, and it’s working on the American public right now.
But not among our guys on the ground in Iraq. Let’s start with two basic ways they are winning.
First is snipers. Marine snipers. Navy SEAL snipers. Army Ranger snipers. There are lots and lots of them in Iraq, they are unbelievably good at their work, which they do quietly, efficiently, and all by themselves with no press coverage. They are taking out Jihadis one by one, a silent pop from nowhere and goodbye, all over Iraq.
One single Marine sniper currently on his third tour has personally racked up well over a hundred confirmed kills. The total number of Jihadis taken down by snipers is classified, but it’s certainly many thousands by now.
Second is the fifty battalions of Iraqi soldiers who are completing their training and will soon be loosed upon the Jihadis. These folks are fighting for their own country and will be ruthless in doing so. Couple this with the increasingly good intel from Iraqis on the street, Sunnis and Shias, who are cooperating with Coalition Forces and the emerging Iraqi military because they are totally fed up with the Jihadis.
As the evidence mounts that the Jihadis are losing in Iraq, the more desperate the Democrats’ and the media’s attempts to suppress and deny the evidence.
So I thought I would provide you with some direct evidence of how things are really going in Mesopotamia. This is an unvarnished, personal SitRep — situation report — from a Marine who just spent seven months at “Camp Blue Diamond” near Ramadi, Iraq, deep in Apache country.
We’ll call him Jay. What follows is notes taken by his father while at home on leave. It’s an assessment, negative and positive, of the tactics, weapons, equipment, and overall situation of both the good guys and the bad guys. It is both chilling and thrilling.
Particularly his “Bottom Line” conclusion. The heroism of American soldiers like Jay makes an astounding contrast to the refusal of the American media to tell the truth about them. Jay has re-enlisted for another four years in the Marines and will be returning for a second tour in Iraq this coming January. He says he can hardly wait.
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God bless 'em.
Thank YOU for the ping, JA. I can tell from the first paragraph that this is good: "WE ARE WINNING." Let's proclaim it every day.
Just skimmed it and will read later... All the rockin'est FReepers are on this thread ... myself excluded of course.
Seen post #28?
As it happens, I had just read an email from an active duty Marine source that contained the following extract:
"...some urban legend stuff here. this apprears to be something put together from various reports and website posting dating back to 2003. We are putting a note together for Gen Mattis to send up to the CMC disagreeing with a lot of it. Some of the input is correct; that is what makes it believeable. We got input from MC System Command, MCIA, and lessons learned. Once we get the final version of our thoughts we will post it to our website.
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Director, Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned"
MUST CLICK ON LINK AND READ IT!!!
Thank you - excellent article.
I loath and hate the main stream media and the democrat leftists.
I loathe the Enemedia and the commieDemonRats as well.
Yea - Walter Krankheit, head of the North Vietnamese America Desk during the Viet Nam War, in charge of anti-American propaganda. He somehow became the Great Icon of American News Reporters.
We KNOW they are winning, and winning big! God bless your son, he is our hero.
Every card I write, I let the troops know that they are the very best of Americans, we are proud, we know they are winning, we are here for them as they are there for us.
There's a care package link on my homepage and you would have no problem getting Canteen gals and guys to write to your son and his buddies, if you like.
I especially liked:
Bad Guy Tactics...When engaged, they have a tendency to all flee to the same building, probably for what they think will be a glorious last stand. Instead, we call in air and that’s the end of that. The building becomes another Alpha Whiskey Romeo, as we have the laser guided ground-air thing down to a science.
LOL... talk about carfully laid flypaper. ;o)
And this:
Morale among our guys is very high. We not only believe we are winning, but that we are winning decisively.Our guys are stunned and dismayed by what they see in the American press, whom they almost universally view as against them. The embedded reporters are despised and distrusted. We are inflicting casualties at a rate of 25-1 and then see garbage like “Are we losing in Iraq?” on TV and the print media.
...really says it all.
Oh, I'm certainly old enough to know who he was, I just wanted to point out that there IS a generation who have relagated him to the dustbin of history where he belongs, plus I have long wanted to use that alternative spelling of his name.
I just wanted to point out that there IS a generation who have relegated him to the dustbin of history where he belongs…
I hope you don't mind one more correction of your spelling. I think the correct spelling of 'newsman' in this case is 'propagandist'.
Yep.
Fantastic article...Forwarded to all on my FBList!!
Great read. Thanks for posting!
Great stuff... ;o) Bumping for others to read...
BTTT for review.
Back when George W. Bush was President we were winning this thing and the terrorists were on the run.
I suppose since then things have been fundamentally transformed.
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