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2004-04-08 Iraq-Jordan

U.S. casualties mount in heavy fighting in Iraq

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Posted by Rafael 2004-04-08 2:44:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I screwed up the smartassery. It should've been: "...there he is! Quote him!" (not much better, I know)

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-08 2:50:48 AM|| 2004-04-08 2:50:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I still can't get over how utterly stupid the reporters are. News Flash: there are about 130,000 troops. They are in almost all the right places. They are armed. They know what to do. They can play Whack a Jihadi like they invented the game, cuz they did. They have ROEs and SOPs running out their ears. They do not rush from hotspot to hotspot like dumb fucking ambulance-chasing merc reporters because someone is already there to deal with it. They are professionals. They deal with it when it sticks its ugly mug above ground. When the asshats fight, they get whipped. Sometimes the good guys lose some good people. That is good for the bad guys for about a microsecond - then it is very very bad because they die even faster as things "loosen up". Go home journo-tards. You don't know fuck-all and haven't shown any capacity to learn. Find your way back to the Hotel Bar, assuming you ever left it. Kill your liver and STFU.

There are Real Men and Wymyn At Work.

Rock on, Marines.

Posted by .com 2004-04-08 3:04:43 AM|| 2004-04-08 3:04:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Find your way back to the Hotel Bar

That's it. Either that or they're projecting...you know, astral plane stuff.

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-08 3:12:15 AM|| 2004-04-08 3:12:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Eek! A quagmire! Vietnam!

Stick a sock init. The Mad-i's army doesn't have a jungle to hide in, and they're attacking fortified positions against some of the best infantry in the world. It's a game they cannot win.

Shia, Sunni - no difference. They will die in large numbers, whomever they think shoulda inherited Big Mo's crown.

Posted by mojo 2004-04-08 3:13:49 AM|| 2004-04-08 3:13:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember, the media declaring quagmire has been a sure predictor of swift and decisive coalition victory (Mark Steyn sums it up best). So all hail the good omen!

Posted by someone 2004-04-08 6:44:22 AM|| 2004-04-08 6:44:22 AM|| Front Page Top

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