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At end of training, Marines say Mongols ready for duty in Iraq
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| 9.28.03
| Fred Zimmerman,
Posted on 09/26/2003 8:21:45 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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Shades of Genghis Khan.
Think of what the jihadi tract writers will make of this.
The New Sack of Baghad by the Crusaders and the Mongols!
And you thought you'd seen anger and rage in the Arab world.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:22:51 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
To: swarthyguy
Baghdad NEVER really recovered from the last time it was visited by the Mongols.
Can't we just have them patrol Kirkuk instead???
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:25:01 AM PDT
by
LN2Campy
To: swarthyguy
Way back when..... The mongols conquered and occupied IRAQ.
"KHAN QUEST" is a very chilling reminder of our mission in Iraq!!
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:27:08 AM PDT
by
duk
To: swarthyguy; RussianConservative
The Mongol Empire was the greatest in the World, far larger than Alexander's and lasting much longer. It stretched over all of north East Asia, Central Asia and under Tamer Lane and the Moghuls (corruption of Mongol) into the Middle East and India. The Mongols would have gone on to conquer Europe if Genghiz Khan's grandson hadn't died of alcohol poisoning in the Crimea.
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:28:08 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(W2004)
To: Cronos
Taras Bulba bump.
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:41:58 AM PDT
by
wordsofearnest
(An armed society is a polite society.)
To: swarthyguy
I hear those guys are nothing but Hordes...
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:42:48 AM PDT
by
Leroy S. Mort
(Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained by stupidity.)
To: swarthyguy
When the Mongols laid seige to Baghdad they had the Caliph brought out and asked him to surrender the city and spare the inhabitants death and slavery.
He refused, so they tied him into a leather sack and ran an army of calvary over him. He was the last Caliph of Islam.
To: Cronos
I would say that the Ottoman Empire was the greatest....other than our own of course
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:47:04 AM PDT
by
Norse
To: Semper Paratus
OK, nitpicking, but wasn't the Caliph restored by the Ottomans until Ataturk abolished it in the early 20's?
Last Arab one, yes.
To: swarthyguy
"How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?"
~Calvin
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:51:35 AM PDT
by
ItsOurTimeNow
("The board is set. The pieces are moving. We come to it at last...the Great Battle of our time.")
To: swarthyguy
"Staff Sgt. Marylyn Sabol, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group embarkation specialist, taught the class.."
Great. Now they know how to neglect their weapons training and maintenance; become lost in a convoy in the desert; crash their vehicles; be killed or captured by poorly-trained and ill-equipped guerillas; and later cash in on book and movie deals....
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posted on
09/26/2003 8:52:11 AM PDT
by
tracer
To: swarthyguy
but wasn't the Caliph restored by the Ottomans Right but his authority was not universely accepted in Islam as was the one turned into horse paste.
To: Semper Paratus
When the Mongols laid seige to Baghdad they had the Caliph brought out and asked him to surrender the city and spare the inhabitants death and slavery. He refused, so they tied him into a leather sack and ran an army of calvary over him. He was the last Caliph of Islam. Has anyone told these Mongol types that we want Sodom Hussein alive, not all mushy in a leather sack? Talk about sending in the hard core!!!! To make it really sweet, how about a battalion of Ghurkas.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:03:19 AM PDT
by
Bedford Forrest
(Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.)
To: tracer
Staff Sgt. Marylyn Sabol, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group embarkation specialist, taught the class.."
Great. Now they know how to neglect their weapons training and maintenance; become lost in a convoy in the desert; crash their vehicles; be killed or captured by poorly-trained and ill-equipped guerillas; and later cash in on book and movie deals....
You neglected to observe that the training was done by Marines and not army. All Marines are riflemen first and you may be assured that weapons training was not neglected. Rifles are high and holy things to Marines.
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Give me a Mongol over a surrender monkey Frenchie any day.
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:21:43 AM PDT
by
capydick
("Our courage is all that stands between the enemies of civilization and of mankind.")
To: Gunner Mike
Thanks for pointing out my error. I should read more carefully. I fully appreciate all Marines' facility with their weapons, having be raised by my late father who was a WWII Marine Raider and who taught me what he knew about firearms, their maintenance, and their proper use.......
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:39:39 AM PDT
by
tracer
To: Bedford Forrest
I read that the Brits have some Ghurkas with them! Seems like the article said they were in Iraq in WWII too!
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posted on
09/26/2003 9:55:36 AM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(The barbarians are inside the gates!)
To: Norse
Ottman? Haha, they loose all 5 war to Russia.
To: Pan_Yans Wife; swarthyguy; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ..
Almost missed this story. What a multi-cultural Coalition of the willing and able we're training!
Everything we taught them, they would practice on their own and the last day, when we had our exercises, they handled themselves very well. In my professional opinion, once they get on the ground [in Iraq], they will be able to conduct themselves as a professional army.
Mongols will be handling some checkpoints in Iraq come Feb. (^:
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posted on
09/26/2003 3:21:09 PM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("I was taught to love America." ~ Freeper 'Bullish' ~ 1960's LA public school.)
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