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Posted on 03/22/2004 8:17:43 AM PST by PatriotEdition
As most of you already know... Israel finally took care of the Hamas terror leader. Good riddance. The dolts in the leftwing media are portraying the Sheik Ahmed as a poor, wheelchair-bound, "spiritual" leader. Someone please - did i miss a meeting or something? Tell me when killing innocent Jews became "spiritual"?! Mother Teresa was a spiritual leader... Shiek Ahmed was a THUG who orchestrated the murders of hundreds and hundreds of innocent Israelis. All i have to say to Sharon is this... NICE SHOT!!!!!!!!! :) Friends, the audio clips are coming very soon! Hang in there... you can get a jist of some if you go to The Political Scrapbook at the bottom of this message; (also, an mp3 of me singing "You Light Up My Life") - Come on, it's not often you get to hear me getting in touch with my feminine side :) Anyway... here is what i wanted to send... a letter written by a marine who is over in Baghdad... I think it needs to be force-read to every cry-baby liberal in this country!
ONE MARINE'S THOUGHTS FROM THE FRONT LINES by Capt. Adam J. Becker March 19, 2004 -- On a cloudless day in January, my entry to Baghdad on a C-130 was marked by a fuselage-shuddering, steep descent from high altitude to the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport - or BIAP, as we say here. It has to be that way, every time, for the safest, quickest way to the ground. This is a dangerous place. I am United States Marine - so I know I am in the right place. You know, its one thing having an airport's name go from Idlewild to John F. Kennedy. But on my watch here as a U.S. Marine, I will be damned if I allow this airport ever to change back to Saddam International Airport. Let that be a symbol of the fact that there will be no rollback. We will not falter or leave before the job is done. That job, in simple terms - to a dumb Marine like me - is to achieve a great and important thing here in Iraq. We are doing this as part of a world team called the Coalition, with the Iraqi people who will very shortly be the team's owners and managers. When the Iraqis take over, the Coalition will become a coach for a long while - and then we step off and leave it all to them. The liberal press chooses to miss that this is not solely a U.S. effort, but a Coalition effort. While we are the star players, you can't win a game with just the star players. We have a great team here, and we will succeed - despite the efforts of an evil, cowardly and extremist resistance. The fight goes on here, and it goes very well. But the going can be slow. The Iraqi people - who are counting on our assistance - are fervently trying to rebuild under constant threat from the few, but deadly, international malcontents and disaffected insurgents.
Essentially, these insurgents are anachronisms in a country that will no longer be hospitable to their vile, cowardly kind. They just don't know it yet. They say we are coming up on a one-year anniversary for our presence here in Iraq. As a Marine and a New Yorker, I disagree. This is really a 14-year anniversary. I enlisted in the Marines in 1990, giving up a safe, normal life - I was going to be a New York City school teacher - to be a part of righting the wrong that Saddam Hussein committed. I left active duty service after my ninth year in the Marines. Then the call came on 9/11. I volunteered and was out of the U.S. for Operation Enduring Freedom in less than two weeks. Now, here I am at Camp Victory in Iraq, supporting the First Marine Expeditionary Force and all of the Coalition in a job that I really can't discuss here - but it is the most important I have ever done. The Marines have just arrived and are holding down the entire Western Sector of Iraq. The Marines have their hands full - but nobody is more capable and up to the job. The Western Sector in the Al-Anbar province is the largest, most dangerous and most diverse region of the country. Here, the Marines must balance duplicitous Syria and Iran to the North and West with highly volatile cities such as Fallujah and Ar-Ramadi closer to Baghdad. We haven't been here long on this second trip to Iraq, but I can tell you we are doing spectacularly. I want New Yorkers to know that the Marines have our part of the situation well in hand. We have never been better trained with better experience. We are at our finest at the right time - as usual. We all know the mission - from lance corporal to general. This place and what we are doing here is more closely linked to terrorism - and American and world security - than I will ever be allowed to discuss. We wouldn't be out here giving it everything we have if it weren't important. Not a day goes by out here that I don't think of the cops, firefighters and regular New Yorkers who died on 9/11. As New Yorkers and as Americans, please stand behind our leaders - and us here. We can do any job on earth and have already accomplished more in Iraq than we had any right to expect. By the way, Marines are pretty easy to thank when we come home and you see us: Buy us a couple of beers, and we'll call it warmly appreciated. Semper fidelis. Capt. Adam J. Becker U.S. Marine Corps Baghdad
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You know, its one thing having an airport's name go from Idlewild to John F. Kennedy. But on my watch here as a U.S. Marine, I will be damned if I allow this airport ever to change back to Saddam International Airport. Let that be a symbol of the fact that there will be no rollback. We will not falter or leave before the job is done.
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This used to be referred to as a "Beirut" ...or with some pilots a bit more colorful.." Ya'll hang on now..I'm gonna have to bay-root us in and outta here...they keep shootin' them damn bottle rockets at us..."
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
You are a hero, my friend, and I intend to tell everyone I know about you and introduce them to the truth.
Check THIS out:
Some said Clarke's just looking to sell more copies of his book and/or possibly hoping for a job with Kerry or a future Democratic president.
"He probably thinks that the Democrats have a chance this time and so he's trying to suck around for another job," Alexander Haig (search), former secretary of state under President Reagan, told Fox News on Monday.
"This is an outrage to claim President Bush is responsible for nine years of total incompetence in confronting international terrorism that he [Clarke] was a part of," especially when "the Clinton administration did nothing but warn, warn, warn and throw a few rockets" at terrorists.
Bush, however, "has a firm grasp on the global threat that is confronting the United States, the free world and nations that believe in the rule of law," Haig continued
If the Marines prefer Ooh Rah! (sp?), Ooh Rah! it shall be for me, from here on out.
(Hoo ah! pic courtesy of an Army and a Marine mom. (^: )
The irony is beau-ti-ful!
Semper Fi, Skipper! er, um, Captain, SIR!
OOORRRRRAAAHHHHH
We are still winning ~ the bad guys are still losing ~ trolls, terrorists, pessimists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
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