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2006-09-18 Iraq
A Marine Intel Officer in Al Anbar Shares Some Thoughts
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Posted by Bobby 2006-09-18 09:23|| || Front Page|| [11144 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This is good stuff from a duty Marine, but I still think the entire approach here is wrong. I don't want to democratize these loons, just eliminate them. I believe we would have been farther ahead by completely (100%) destroying Ramadi + Fallujah and virtually all of the populace in Al-Anbar as a lesson to these moonbats. We should only expend American blood to defend oilfields. Make no pretense. Simply tell them they will be destroyed if they don't comply. Then follow thru. We are not going to influence them to change. The only worth here is drawing them into the box of death, them cutting them down.
Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-18 13:57||   2006-09-18 13:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Biggest Outrage - Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest offender - Bill O’Reilly - what a buffoon.

This isn't suprising in the least but I wasn't expecting O'Reilly to be at the top of the list. However, I could easily be missing something here, if not quite a bit more.
Posted by eltoroverde 2006-09-18 14:16||   2006-09-18 14:16|| Front Page Top

#3  If you want to do something for me, kiss a cop, flush a toilet, and drink a beer.

I'm sure Mr. Wife will drink that beer if I ask him to (yuck, beer), and the toilet is not problem, but I'm going to have to go looking for a policeman.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-18 14:51||   2006-09-18 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps, eltoroverde, the author's a bit more liberal than Mr. O'Reilly? More like an Alan Combes?
Posted by Bobby 2006-09-18 14:54||   2006-09-18 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 awesome!
Posted by tabd 2006-09-18 15:07||   2006-09-18 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 The link is bad. I know its an e-mail but I'd like to repost it. Is there a link?
Posted by tabd 2006-09-18 15:09||   2006-09-18 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Some of these anecdotes are great, some need more context for the rest of us to understand.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-09-18 15:28||   2006-09-18 15:28|| Front Page Top

#8 no linky thingy. I got it last week in an e-mail from my daughter's father-in-law. I guess you could cut and paste - that's how it got here!
Posted by Bobby 2006-09-18 15:42||   2006-09-18 15:42|| Front Page Top

#9 thanks!
Posted by tabd 2006-09-18 15:43||   2006-09-18 15:43|| Front Page Top

#10 AH9418, what don't you understand? Email me direct, and I'll try to explain. It all made perfect sense to me, but then I spent 26 years in AF intelligence, including the required tour to Vietnam. Too old for this war, damnit!
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-09-18 20:40|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-09-18 20:40|| Front Page Top

#11 THX Bobby.
Posted by RD 2006-09-18 22:57||   2006-09-18 22:57|| Front Page Top

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