Posted on 10/07/2006 11:02:27 AM PDT by oxcart
FTA;
Best Chuck Norris Moment — 13 May. Bad Guys arrived at the government center in a small town to kidnap the mayor, since they have a problem with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his machinegun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machinegun and drill five of the Bad Guys. The other two ran away. One of the dead Bad Guys was on our top twenty wanted list. Like they say, you can't fight City Hall.
Message to politicians, leave the work to the soldiers and stop bothering them so you can get a nice photo op.
Yep.
Bumperoo.
"Biggest Surprise — Iraqi Police. All local guys. I never figured that we'd get a police force established in the cities in al-Anbar. I estimated that insurgents would kill the first few, scaring off the rest. Well, insurgents did kill the first few, but the cops kept on coming. The insurgents continue to target the police, killing them in their homes and on the streets, but the cops won't give up. Absolutely incredible tenacity. The insurgents know that the police are far better at finding them than we are — and they are finding them. Now, if we could just get them out of the habit of beating prisoners to a pulp ."
BTTT
Really outstanding. But I think I see why TIME went with this:
"Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O'Reilly."
And the despicable Murtha says our military is broken, it's clear he pays no attention to the brave people he slanders.
I felt right at home, he could have substituted Vietnam
for Iraq and it all would have been true , Marine
De ja vu all over again.
Did the Marines in Vietnam refer to the "loo"?
The complaints never change, they were almost the same when I was in. Timeless, really.
Did the Marines in Vietnam refer to the "loo"?
Exactly. I smell a fake letter.
you could always contact TIME's Sally B. Donnelly to see if it's legit....assuming she's real...
Therefore I assume, "What are they gonna do, send me to Iraq?", is popular.
If the enemies within (Washington-New York-Boston-LA, et al. America-is-always-wrong liberals) succeed in bringing about another peace-with-honor-stand down-withdrawal, provide-aid-for-self-defense (NOT!) "solution" then -- IMHO -- the military must turn their attention to the domestic enemies aspect of their oath. ASAP.
Every two-hundred-year-old republic is entitled to at least one patriot-dictator.
It will only hurt for a little while, we lose permanently more freedoms (free speech, property rights, self-defense rights) during peace time court decisions then we could ever lose during a short wall-to-wall, top-to-bottom house cleaning.
Amen Brother. All except for the beer.
Don't know if they don't have access or what.
I'm (ashamed, maybe, a little, lol) to admit that when I was in Nam we had access to beer (and drank copious amounts) thereof.
If memory serves me, it was $2.40 a case, (and I won't even mention the .90 cents price for Vodka and other inexpensive spirits) although we (enlisted guys) didn't make that much, then. And oh for you smokers (which I was and still are one) cigs were $1.20 a carton.
Yes we (some of us, okay?) engaged in all sorts of behavior which one would consider "tawdry" and among other things, its a wonder more of us did not return with a drinking problem, but when each and every day is one in which you don't know if you will get to see another, one has a tendency of "live for today."
God Bless our Brave Heroes and may He watch over each and every one of them.
This letter is brain candy.
Semper. Fi.
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