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First off, there is a reason the enemy was able to ambush them in the area they did...local support. I would not doubt the enemy combined the explosion with small arms fire in the cover of the local populace...it is a time honored tactic used by the enemy we face. The perfect excuse to ride the area of a force that was more then likely effectively putting considerable pressure on the enemy in that area. Our enemies know out weakness. One that has been created by ourselves....

Second...call it a gut feeling from a 21 year vet of the USMC...been there and done that.

Call it a gut feeling from a 21 year Army vet, CentCom would not order the unit out if the only concern was that the Marine unit was too combat effective. But that's just me and I don't know any more about the situation than what I've read here.

I agree with you %100, 000.

If you go to any of the jihadi web sites, you'll find instructions on how to wage information war against us infidel.

Act like one of us, claim all sorts of affiliation, speak constantly to sow confusion and mistrust and work against their will to fight.

Makes me wonder about some of the posters here.

FACT:

If an ambush is getting ready to be sprung, there are no innocent civilians loitering around. That is plain bull####.
Everyone in the vicinity of an ambush is fair game. There's no magic wand to wave around to make the really bad guys glow or some stupid crap like many seem to believe.

If a pos is in the vic, he's a player of one sort or another or someone just too damn stupid to get out of the way. Not our problem.

All this crap about "innocent civilians" is weakness beyond words to describe. It is stupidity of the grossest sort. It is cult of cowardice. It is submission to enemy propagandists.

Those playing this game may not believe themselves to be betrayers, may not want to be betrayers, may not intend to be betrayers, but have allowed themselves, in their inability to comprehend reality to be led by the gonads right into the pool with the rest of the betrayers.

Weakness. Pathetic weakness. The very definition of cultural rot and a sampling of a culture so intellectually inbred as to have begun feeding upon itself in cannibalistic glee.