Posted on 07/02/2007 11:52:31 AM PDT by Dubya
His book is an amazing story. Truly a must read. A shame that the MSM never reported his story only the deaths.
God Bless our troops and their families.
“...In the book, Luttrell describes how the team talked it out, trying to find the best course of action. If they killed the men, they worried, the American media would get wind of it, and they’d be charged with murder....”
Fighting a war now-a-days involves not only the enemy, but also dealing with our media...
On a larger scale - how dems think today...
Where ever you go in the ME there is goat boy, and in SE Asia or Asia in general it’s an older women peeing in the woods. Never fails.
Same thing happened to those Bravo Two Zero guys from SAS during the first Gulf War.
I bet he misses his friends.
God bless Texas.
A couple of weeks back he was a guest on fox and friends in the AM.....the guys each asked him a reasonable question about his book and that day, for which he responded well......then it was Gretchen Carlsons tur; the ditz said “Being the lone survivor is a wonderful thing for you, but what about everybody else that died?”............obviously she had her peabrain somewhere else for the other diaglog and had absolutely no clue of how this fellow has lived every day of his life since then.......really, man, had I been within reach I’d have knocked every one of her teeth out with the back of my hand........he almost came to tears, and God or a producer intervened with cut direct to a commercial break.......
Heard him on Glenn Beck ... utterly amazing. Was his story an influence on the theme of Army Wives I wonder (the “bosco” character)? ROE collides with reality more often than not.
Just bought the book because of the interview on Glenn Beck.
I’ve only read a couple of pages and it practically brought me to tears.
God Bless them all. God grant Marcus Luttrell peace.
One of the overriding themes throughout the book is liberal yellow journalism . I’ve read many simimlar books on other conflicts and none have had so many references to such blantant liberal treason
Marines on a JTF6 mission in 1996 shot a goat herder on the US/Mexican border.
These SEALs fought with amazing bravery, courage and skills (to a man). Three members of this SEAL Team gave their lives in this battle....but AARs also show not before that mountain side was littered with the corpses of well over 60 + KIA Taliban (with additional likely wounded).
SEAL Lt. M. Murphy is up for consideration for the MOH for his actions. It was suspected he might have been awarded it this past week (marking the 2 year anniversary of this day)....that did not happen....But still hopefully will.
God bless each of these men and their families. How they lived, fought and died shows all that is good about our great nation.
Just finished this book yesterday - saw it at Costco and picked it up. Hard to know what to think about it.
I don't know the protocol, but this guy Murphy was their commander. Isn't the bad decision HIS? If they voted on it, it's because HE let them vote on it, isn't it? Why give a medal to the guy who made the mistake?
I agree it was absolutely the worst decision possible. But they were almost forced to make it.
Had they made the right decision, perhaps 19 expensive, highly trained fellow citizens might be alive today, but at least one, perhaps two of them would be scheduled for trial for murder.
Personally, I think whoever made the ROEs should be on trial as we speak.
Are you Fking kidding me!?! - There was no mistake made in terms of doing what was "right" - It was simply by doing such it put these men at much greater risk - A risk they took - A decision they came together as a TEAM (which is what being a SEAL is all about. Your TEAM). These men died for each other out there that day. Literally fought until their last breath for one another, after each being wounded multiple times.
These men were deep in Indian country (surrounded by some of the most evil SOBs this earth knows) on a highly classified Op
Lt. Murphy gave his life (knowingly put himself in position which would likely cost his life....Apprx 45/1hr into this hellish firefight in order to get a QRF on the scene in order to try and save his men).
You know absolutely nothing to even suggest such - Much less anything about SEAL doctrine and how they operate.
Furthermore killing these unarmed men was absolutely no guarantee of helping this SEAL RT (in the big picture looking back...nor for them specifically at that time in place). As when these goat herders didn't return or when it became obvious to those Taliban in the village that over a 100 goats were wandering haphazardly on the mountain face they would have been just as well alerted.
Why give a medal? You are a moron. These men voluntarily put themselves at such risk that 99.9999% would never even dream of doing (much less being capable of). Simply to ensure the safety of this nation.
In doing so they followed the ROEs that this Nation mandates on them (did so with honor) and fought with the skills, bravery, aggression and courage that most couldn't comprehend.
That's redundant.
Take a prosac. I said I didn't know the protocol. While I was reading the article, I was wondering why this guy was taking on so much guilt when there was a commander there. Your rage aside, it's a fair question. I didn't mean offense.
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