GRITTY TROOPS GRIND UP GUERRILLAS BLOCK BY BLOCK

New York Post ^ | 4/07/04 | LOURDES NAVARRO and BASSEM MROUE , AP

[kattracks]

April 7, 2004 -- FALLUJAH, Iraq - In a narrow alley, Marines pinned down by a hail of guerrilla fire sent up red smoke in a cry for help. Tanks pounded shell after shell into houses, while troops on the city's edge crawled forward on their bellies, firing on guerrillas.

[Domangart]

Then they dig their own grave.

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[faithincowboys]

"Yesterday evening, U.S. planes firing rockets destroyed four houses in two neighborhoods, witnesses said. The strike killed 26 Iraqis, including women and children, and wounded 30 others, said Rafie al-Issawi, a doctor at Fallujah General Hospital, where the casualties were taken. The deaths brought the total number of Iraqi dead yesterday to 34, the hospital reported."

You can't imagine how uninteresting I find that.

[faithincowboys]

Apparently, we're supposed to weep for their dead-- it's too late for that now. If they don't want collateral damage, they should stop aiding the a-holes of Fallujah.

[Sabatier]

..."They insurgents usually fire and run. This time they're digging in, which is the first time we've seen them do that,"
Ebert said...

That would be because they are surrounded by Marines and there is no place to run to other than hell.

[Robert Drobot]

Give the families of Fallujah 48 hours to leave the town. Inspect those leaving for weapons, and then level the place as a warning to those who want to burn, kill, or harm in any way the presence of American military in other sections of Iraq and the Arab world generally.

I am sick and tired of seeing our military getting their ass kicked, because American politicians don't want to admit that real war means civilian deaths.

Remember the devastation of England by Germany V2 rockets? There was indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets. Remember the annihilation of Dresden, Germany - a civilian population almost wiped off the map because of day and night bombing by American and British forces?

The whole idea of a 'civil' war is absurd on its face. We started it with our financing the war crimes trials of Yugoslavia's elected politicians. The trials have proven to be a world class joke. There can be no such thing as a 'civil' war, because war is a kill or be killed proposition. The guy with the biggest club wins. How he wins is akin to second guessing how a club may be used. As nearly as possible, civilian populations are immune to military force. However, where, as in the present case, a civilian population supports and hides an armed force, that population must be held responsible for the consequences of their active role in protecting our enemy.

Burn Fallujah to the ground. It is an enemy stronghold, protected by local civilians. American patrols are easy game. Procrastination of this end result is unacceptable.

[faithincowboys]

Apparently, 150 cars or some such of Sadr's a-holes surrounded the Polish base -- I'm sure there was a Hell of a pucker factor amongst our good friends the Poles. Sadr's a-holes just did it to show strenth, they left without attacking the Poles.

I think we should have an AC130 on the ready, lets get the air assets up and ready to go. If they pull this move again I say let's bring the HIGHWAY OF DEATH to these animals.

[hmmmmm]

Would these be the same AP reporters who had advance notice of the slaughter of the 4 brave Americans, the same AP reporters who parked their camera to capture that atrocity rather than report their advance info, the same AP reporters who should be jailed upon sight (though I advocate a much "stiffer" penalty for them)?

[faithincowboys]

I hate to say it, but if I was over there up to my knees in it --the Euro pr*cks from Reuters, the Beeb and our domestic slimeballs at Ap, CNN, etc would be on my hunting list -- and it would be purely business, not personal.

[hmmmmm]

So you heard/read the same thing I did, that the camera shots were courtesy of "Reuter's Arab stringers and the AP"?

Our troops deserve yet another award, this one for "self-restraint in the face of traitorous/treasonous actions of fellow Americans (or those who call the U.S. home)". I'll never understand how anyone who has ever crossed our shores could be complicit in the murder of an American. I'll also never understand why we don't use, at the very least, nationality profiling during the Customs process.

[faithincowboys]

Yeah, the obnoxious "affirmative action" Leftists that run the "mainstream" media haven't vetted the arabs they hired at all. They basically put Al Qaeda in the country to incite anti-coalition violence and give away our troops' positions. Isn't it great that the winners that run the media who think the sucker punch on the Pentagon was fair game are hiring (and paying them well) Osamists to cover the war?

Our media is so stinking bad it's a wonder that this country just doesn't take over the anchor desks and send the Rats over to Fallujah to see how secularism, homosexuality and utter nutsy leftism is received by the locals in Fallujah and Sadr City.

[Tredge]

U.S. forces called out a weapon rarely used against the Iraqi guerrillas: the AC-130 gunship, a warplane that circles over a target, laying down a devastating barrage of heavy machine-gun fire.

They mis-describe the AC-130. The heavy machine gun fire is the least of their problems if they ever come out of their holes. Even if they don't it'll dig a nice deep one for them. They ought to dig for oil with that thing.

[hmmmmm]

Here's where we differ :), I think the networks vetted them. They vetted them to their own way of thinking which is treasonous at best. They vetted them enough to discover that they'd hired the type of people who would say anything for a buck... ie: the perfect "reporter"/alphabet network employee.

[faithincowboys]

I agree. I wouldn't trust Peter Jennings or Westin or Pinchy Sulzberger to hire a camera crew to film paint dry.

These guys are such a-holes. They are like Chris Matthews--who plainly wants all Hell to break lose in Iraq.

I've said it from the beginning, if these a-holes woke up tommorow to news that 1,000 GIs died, they would be happy because it would be the death knell for Bush's re-election and it would prove "war is bad, Always."

The media and the Rats in DC make up the Fifth Column-- no doubt about it.

[hmmmmm]

I read an article here, earlier, about our Armed Forces starting their own news reporting service. I'm going to try to find a link to it, seems to me it's the perfect foil to the lies (other than most of what we hear from FNC) that are reported by the non-political press.

[hmmmmm]

Here's a link to the article I referenced http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1112260/posts (I've no idea if it will show up as a true link but I hope it will :))

[faithincowboys]

Sadly, this is coming online a bit late. We need to get our message out. Unfortunately, most J school people are explicitly anti-american. Hopefully, we have really solid patriots running the operation. Patritotism??? How archaic and simple minded says the Left.

I am so sick of the Left, I believe they have provided immense aid and comfort to the enemy. They are operating without consciences.

Shame on them!

[faithincowboys]

Great-- army camera teams. This could be great and not a moment too soon.

[hmmmmm]

I choose to believe that there's always hope, that common sense is really practical sense. (And that what one publicly proclaims isn't necessarily what one believes... or votes).