We shoot them down like the morons they are

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 4-7-03 | Lindsay Murdoch

[antaresequity]

'We shoot them down like the morons they are': US general

By Lindsay Murdoch Herald Correspondent south of Baghdad
April 9 2003, 11:05 AM

Hundreds of Muslim fighters, many of them non-Iraqis, were putting up a stronger fight for Baghdad than Iraq's Republican Guard or the regular army, a top United States military officer said yesterday.

"They stand, they fight, sometimes they run when we engage them," Brigadier-General John Kelly said.

"But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are."

General Kelly, assistant commander of the about 20,000-strong 1st Marine Division, said US intelligence indicated that there might be anywhere between 500 and 5000 of the fighters, whom he described as terrorists.

"They appear willing to die. We are trying our best to help them out in that endeavour," he said.

General Kelly said a captured Syrian fighter who had his leg blown off had refused medical help. "They are arrogant. They are determined," he said.

The fighters were armed with AK47 rifles and hand-held rockets, he said.

"We are finding them more dangerous than the conventional Iraqi units."

General Kelly said pockets of the Republican Guard and Iraq's regular army were engaging thousands of US marines who had entered Baghdad from the north-east after seizing control of bridges across the Tigris River.

The resistance was unco-ordinated, he said.

"There's no shifting of forces ... there are no reinforcements ... there is no cohesion to the whole thing."

Any rational military command would have surrendered by now, he said.

"There can be no escape."

General Kelly said marines were about to seize buildings and land in Baghdad that were of strategic importance.

"Once we take ground we tend not to give it up."

[AdamSelene235]

"Well so much for 2nd amendment being able to help us now, if gov't goes rogue..."

Many in the military would defect. Its not exactly a bastion of leftism.

[Free Vulcan]

Fortunately I imagine most of the military would be on our side in that situation, especially if it is Clinton the Sequel.

[JusPasenThru]

Can you imagine these maniacs with a nuke in their hands? Dubya is right, preemption is the only rational course of action.

[hellinahandcart]

"They appear willing to die. We are trying our best to help them out in that endeavour."

All I can expect from any man is that he try his best. ;D

[Nagilum]

BRING ON THE MARTYRS!!

[annyokie]

Thank you! I love to share them

[F16Fighter]

"The gene pool gets cleaner every day..."

A human algacidal, bactericidal BUMP.

[McGavin999]

Well, that's one way to get rid of the terrorists. Just send them all to Iraq and let our guys get rid of them once and for all.

[HighWheeler]

I agree with you on that one. And since you took the best line, I'll post the second best line:

"Any rational military command would have surrendered by now" he said.

Proving the point as to why we are at war - these people are nuts.

[antaresequity]

Freeper JusPasenThrough hit the golden spike:

Can you imagine these maniacs with a nuke in their hands? Dubya is right, preemption is the only rational course of action.

[dead]

I have a feeling the author wrote this with the idea that I would be horrified by this General's attitude.

The author is as mistaken as the moron's volunteering as bullet catchers.

[unspun]

Oh, darn, I thought this was about the Oakland protesters.

You mean the Raiders fans? ;-`

[Gurn]

For some reason, I'm reminded of the words of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, the Senior Drill Instructor in "Full Metal Jacket":

God has a ____-on for Marines, because we keep Heaven full of fresh souls. He plays His games...We play ours."

[dogbyte12]

We should encourage Egypt to let them fight. It solves a problem for them of radicals, and it gives us one less place to hunt.

If they really want to die, we really shouldn't stand in their way.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

"But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are."

I have had the same reaction but keep calling them dumbasses. How futile and how stupid can some of these people be?

Why not build a better life for them and their children? Why not actually work hard every day for a better existence?

Complete moral depravity. This is beyond religion, beyond culture. These people are the personification of evil.

Sorry to say, but let's get as many of these monsters as we can before we prematurely end hostilities.

They do themselves and their nation harm beyond any measure. The only consolation is that we are meeting them on ground of our own choosing rather than on our own soil.

[antaresequity]

I have a feeling the author wrote this with the idea that I would be horrified by this General's attitude

Yep...no doubt...I trolled this off the DUmb site...

The liberal media will lose huge trying to spin these vermin as victims...

[cavtrooper21]

USMC PING

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I can't believe we tricked these morons into coming into Iraq and taking on our armed soldiers.

They were having so much more luck killing secretaries and old ladies on busses.

[unspun]

Some of them seem "smart" enough to get us to almost simultaneously fire upon buildings inhabited by the press -- and we were the dupes those times.

Our officers need to get maps and mark them for our troops.