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2007-01-11 Iraq

US Marines build sand walls in latest Iraq tactic

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-01-11 12:02|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "What surprises me is how much the Iraqis look at that. 'You ought to do what the Israelis do. If someone plants an IED, you should bulldoze their house',"

-yeah, no shit. Of course our traitorous msm scum would never understand that tactic even if it was iraqi approved.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-01-11 15:52|| 2007-01-11 15:52|| Front Page Top

#2
The summer sun is merciless, sand storms a constant curse.

The summer sun in January?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-11 15:53|| 2007-01-11 15:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, good fences make good neighborers.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-11 16:04|| 2007-01-11 16:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The summer sun in January?

Iraq wobbles; half the year it's south of the equator. It's ALWAYS summer there.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-11 16:12|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-11 16:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Iraq is well North of the Equator. It is even quite to the North of the Tropic.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-11 17:18|| 2007-01-11 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I know, JFM. It was a (poor) joke.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2007-01-11 17:32|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-11 17:32|| Front Page Top

#7 To those of us northerners, Iraq in winter seems like paradise temperatures. However, winter in the desert is no paradise.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-11 17:34|| 2007-01-11 17:34|| Front Page Top

#8 half the year it's south of the equator

I thought it was funny. And better written than the ponderous article.

Posted by SteveS 2007-01-11 17:47|| 2007-01-11 17:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Haditha has become even more notorious in the West since US Marines sowed their own brand of terror by killing 24 Iraqis after one of their buddies was ripped apart by a roadside bomb in 2005. Murder charges have been pressed.

Who wrote this? John ABSCAM Murtha. So much for the objective press. Those guys fighting for Western Civilization, even though many of us don't deserve it, should be given the highest measure of "innocent until proven guilty".

AFP you suck. I going to work-over my life size Dhimmi Carter punching bag now.

Posted by Lanny Ddub 2007-01-11 17:58|| 2007-01-11 17:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Hee hee, RC 1/2 of the year south of the Equator.
Other 2/3 is near Atlanta. The weather can only be called DIRE.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-11 18:06|| 2007-01-11 18:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey, I represent Shipman (living near Atlanta). The good news out of "da ATL" today though, is the fourteen people on the board resigning from the Carter Center over Jimmuh's ~~book~~ propoganda.

Posted by BA 2007-01-11 19:36|| 2007-01-11 19:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Preview is your friend...meant:

Hey, I represent that, Shipman....

Carry on!

Posted by BA 2007-01-11 19:36|| 2007-01-11 19:36|| Front Page Top

#13 To those of us northerners, Iraq in winter seems like paradise temperatures. However, winter in the desert is no paradise.

Indeed. As this story will attest. This SAS squad, hunting SUDs during Desert Storm, got lost in the boonies of the Iraq-Syria border and wound up losing three men to exposure during a snow storm.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-01-11 20:20|| 2007-01-11 20:20|| Front Page Top

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