Several killed in Iraq ambush

Al Jazeera | Friday 09 April 2004, 14:48 Makka Time, 11:48 GMT

[archy]

"Individuals in possession of Marine gear or Marine personal effects -- will NOT achieve prisoner status.."

Essentially the policy adopted by the Russian motor rifle units operating in Chechnya.

Since 1994. I concur, but do NOT expect immediate results.

[Petruchio]

As I said in a letter to Bush:

"Any population group, even if civilian, who celebrates an attack on The United States should also be considered to be terrorist and a just target for Military action. I am directly referring to the street celebrations that were filmed in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus."

Basically, if you give aid to, support, harbor, or celibrate the actions of terrorists, you are a terrorist and deserve the same treatment that all other terrorists deserve:

A painful death.

Click on my name to read the full letter.

[archy]

Besides, wasn't the monestary of Monte Cassino pummeled to dust because the Nazi's used it as a fortress?

Well, no. It was in an ideal position to be used as an artillery observation post, and some of our senior theater officers, who knew that they'd never overlook a little creative cheating in using an advantage like that, requested the Air Corps to take care of the problem for them. Later the monks resident in the place who survived reported that the Germans had been scrupulously correct about maintaining the neutrality of the religious site.

Militarily, religious sites are best employed as first aid and medevac sites or field hospital locations if nothing better can be found. Personally, before I'd be treated inside a mosque, I'd prefer to bleed out.

[archy]

I guess we're still in a war of incremental stages. We won't go for their throats until we've lost cities.

It gets worse.

[Jim Noble]

And the kids are getting baptized next week...

[Travis McGee]

It was stupid to take that picture, in an electronic era when it can be reposted on every arab muslim website in 10 minutes.

[Iris7]

Sorry, but not surprised to see the situation here on this thread. I learned only a very few thing from my time in Viet Nam, and the most terrible was not what people look like on the inside, or how fast and how easily this can happen to anyone, or any of that sort of stuff. Nothing easier than killing and dieing.

All of the fear stuff didn't surprise me, except that I turned out to be better at living with it than some others did.

What was really hard to learn, and impossible for almost all people to accept, is that people hate the truth, just hate it. Illusions and delusions are people's greatest love.

[archy]

It was stupid to take that picture, in an electronic era when it can be reposted on every arab muslim website in 10 minutes.

If you've got a photo editor, blow it up and check out the jumbled pixels around the lettering, a pretty sure sign that it's been retouched in Photoshop or a similar editing program to reletter the sign. I suggest that any problems that Marine might have will evaporate once he shows the original photo with the actual wording of the sign.

My only question was whether the reworking of the photo took place before being obtained by every arab muslim propaganda outlet or afterward.

[Travis McGee]

Good point, but either way, the damage is done. I doubt the sign originally said, "This is my good friend Habib, and we are here to liberate his country."