To: Squantos
Aren’t we considering the Iraqi “volunteer militia” as “ours”?
I always considered anyone with a weapon pointed in the same direction as mine - “one of us”......”ours”....
We couldn’t communicate well with the “yards”....but most of them were more reliable in a fight than some of the ARVN assignees to I Corps.
The “yards” were fighting on their home turf — family neighborhoods — much like the Iraqi “volunteer militia”, so I suspect they may be poorly trained but properly motivated.
36 posted on
02/13/2008 9:50:26 PM PST by
river rat
(Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: river rat
Oh yeah ......sorry if I implied otherwise.
37 posted on
02/13/2008 11:23:37 PM PST by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: river rat
We couldn’t communicate well with the “yards”....but most of them were more reliable in a fight than some of the ARVN assignees to I Corps. What, you don't speak Bru or Rhade?
39 posted on
02/14/2008 9:01:20 AM PST by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
To: river rat
Aren’t we considering the Iraqi “volunteer militia” as “ours”? For so long as we keep paying them in US green dollars, at least. Once the changeover to Iraqi Dinars begins, all bets are off.
41 posted on
02/14/2008 9:07:29 AM PST by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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