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A city in ruins, sky thick with smoke: 'let's kick ass ... the American way'
guardian.co.uk ^ | Sunday November 14, 2004 | Lindsey Hilsum

Posted on 11/14/2004 7:57:55 PM PST by crushelits

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1 posted on 11/14/2004 7:57:56 PM PST by crushelits
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Such sour grapes...too bad.


2 posted on 11/14/2004 8:00:03 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: crushelits

Wot, no barf alert?


3 posted on 11/14/2004 8:00:27 PM PST by jocon307 (Jihad is world wide. Jihad is serious business. We ignore global jihad at our peril.)
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Please, no more UK garbage.


4 posted on 11/14/2004 8:00:56 PM PST by silent_jonny (Victory is sooooo sweet!)
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AMERICA---F*** YEAH!!


5 posted on 11/14/2004 8:01:15 PM PST by lawgirl (Proud 2 time voter for George W. Bush as of 7:21 AM CST, November 2, 2004. LUVYA DUBYA!!)
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Sigh, more liberal-speak puke from the leftie-liberal Guardian. (yawn)


6 posted on 11/14/2004 8:01:46 PM PST by Ciexyz (Bush still rules. The sun shines over America.)
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OOOHHHH Yeah. I second that emotion. LOL.


7 posted on 11/14/2004 8:02:33 PM PST by Miss Behave (There's a WMD hidden in Suha's double chin.)
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The MsM really somewhere deep down believe that if theislamorats stayed and fight they would win...It just kills them the US military is so superior,in all aspects of war, air artillery,open country.close quarters,house to house,they just can't believe it. It is actually funny to watch.


8 posted on 11/14/2004 8:04:57 PM PST by nothernlights
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Hope someone can tell the Marines that Lindsey Hilsum is embedded with what he's writing about them.
9 posted on 11/14/2004 8:05:49 PM PST by ml1954
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The good old Guardian is still at it,eh?


10 posted on 11/14/2004 8:06:14 PM PST by Mears
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Hey libs and you Dummies over at DU, the Clintons are off for the Holidays, talking points from the second echelon are coming in loud and clear.

(And no I would not question your patriotism, judgment, deviant sexual past or lack of a family tree)
11 posted on 11/14/2004 8:06:17 PM PST by TexasTransplant (It is UNAmerican to put the UN before America)
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"Over the week, the two units I'm accompanying have lost at least two marines and seen several injured in the push through the Jolan district, a rebel stronghold. Captain Brian Chontosh says about a dozen men have been captured and a similar number killed." This Hilsum 'journalist' needs to be found trembling in a basement, accompanied by the 'insurgents' he appears to admire ... if he doesn't lose his head to the insurgents before Americans arrive. The Guardian isn't one of my favorite British rags, BTW.


12 posted on 11/14/2004 8:07:46 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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I hate these reporters as much as I hate the terrorists and I want the same thing to happen to them that is happening to the terrorists.


13 posted on 11/14/2004 8:07:59 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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My oh my, what a load of tripe disguised as 'color'.

the small, poor, dusty city which has become the symbol of America's failure in Iraq. I am guessing there are a few hundred thousand dead Iraqis who were less than happy with Saddam's "success" in Iraq. And a few million Iraqis with renewed hope now that might quibble with the whole failure thing.

They need to wrest back Falluja not simply to quell the insurgency but also to show the 'hajis' - as they call the rebels - that they cannot match the mighty US Army Well, all fine and dandy, but didn't he just interview some Marines? Was there another DOD reorganization that I missed?

'I guess there are some good people - it's jus' that we don' have nothin' to do with them,' mused a marine Of course, the Guardian will be sure to show you that the barbaric Yanks all talk like Gomer Pyle with a blood fetish; I wonder how much they 'accent' comments from Americans they agree with. Wait, I forgot; there are none.

One stuck a paper flower behind his ear and posed for the camera before changing his mind - 'I don't want people to think I'm gay!' Probably caught a winsome glance from the Guardian reporter and felt a little icky all the sudden...

14 posted on 11/14/2004 8:08:03 PM PST by AzSteven
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By this reasoning getting all the terror thugs on the run with nowhere to sleep or hide after a series of such "empty victories" will really be hollow. There will be an almost complete reduction of their attacks and that will be really "empty" in the eyes of the press. They they'll write about how even though we've reduced the attacks to insignificance, it's not a real victory because we could have done it more "gently."


15 posted on 11/14/2004 8:08:35 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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'We're goin' in to raise the Eye-raqi flag above Falluja . . . "

Curious to know how this "reporter" could divine the speaker's spelling.

16 posted on 11/14/2004 8:08:59 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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'We're goin' in to raise the Eye-raqi flag above Falluja . . . "

Curious to know how this "reporter" could divine the speaker's spelling.

I don't know about spelling, but I can divine the reporter's smug arrogance.

17 posted on 11/14/2004 8:12:56 PM PST by silent_jonny (Victory is sooooo sweet!)
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"The marines will claim this as a major triumph in the war on terror but..."

Is this how a victory won by the blood of patriots will be stolen by the lies of leftwing pencil pushers?

18 posted on 11/14/2004 8:13:41 PM PST by drpix
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While some may blame the insurgents for bringing this upon the city, many will point to the Americans.

And most of them are already employed by The Guardian.

19 posted on 11/14/2004 8:17:38 PM PST by spodefly (I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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"No soldier can fight unless he hates the enemy - which makes the message that this is all for the Iraqi people difficult to abso.."

I this meant to be a "fact" ? Leftist garbage...from a socialist leftist American loathing rag of a paper!

20 posted on 11/14/2004 8:18:59 PM PST by lawdog
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