US Marines vs Islamists
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"starwars" <nob...@tatooine.homelinux.net> wrote in message
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> Instapundit.com
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> [A reader] sends this email, noting the Marines' success at
> killing attackers without suffering casualties in two recent
> engagements:
The Marines don't incur the deaths because of Frag jackets and armor, they
do suffer alot of wounds and incapactiations.
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> "2 firefights x 0 US casualties + 120 dead militants = Vietnam?
>
> ". . .check out these Times and Post accounts of firefights in
> and around Falluja on Tuesday. (The Post story recounts a daring
> rescue of an APC crew who lost their way into hostile
> territory.) In both of them, US Marines were surprised by
> surprisingly fierce, well-organized attacks-and then proceeded
> to kill a tremendous number of insurgents, while suffering zero
> deaths.
>
> [1] "American forces killed more than 100 insurgents on Tuesday
> in close combat in a small village in central Iraq, Marine
> commanders said Wednesday... Marines fought house to house, roof
> to roof, doorway to doorway. They repelled attacks of machine-
> gun fire, volleys of rockets and repeated charges by masked
> fighters, Colonel McCoy said. Two marines were shot but their
> injuries were not life-threatening." -- http://snipurl.com/5qg0
>
> [2] "Marine officials said the three-hour battle that erupted at
> dusk Tuesday on the streets of Fallujah, and was recounted
> Wednesday by several of the key officers involved, exemplified
> the bravery and resourcefulness that Marines are known for, even
> when surprised and surrounded by a host of enemy fighters on
> alien urban turf. By the end of the tumultuous encounter, the
> charred personnel carrier had been towed to safety by a tank and
> most of its 17 crew members -- several of them wounded -- had
> been rescued from a house where they had taken shelter... The
> rescue squad rushed four tanks and six Humvees to the area,
> where they fought their way through several blocks to reach the
> burning carrier. Surrounded by 25 Marine riflemen on foot, the
> armored vehicles advanced, firing machine guns from their
> turrets. Overhead, Air Force attack planes repeatedly strafed
> the area. Marine officials here said at least 20 insurgents were
> shot dead during the fighting...
>
> "'This is a story about heroes. It shows the tenacity of the
> Marines and their fierce loyalty to each other,' said Lt. Col.
> Brennan Byrne, commander of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine
> Regiment. 'They were absolutely unwilling to leave their brother
> Marines behind.'" -- http://snipurl.com/5qg5
>
> To me, the most interesting quote was this one: "It showed not
> only the intensity of the resistance but an acute willingness
> among insurgents to die."
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> Exactly! They have allowed their "leaders" to screw up their
> societies so much that they have nothing to live FOR on this
> planet, so this is why they don't fight worth a damn. They're
> perfectly happy to put up a half-ass effort and then get shot up
> as the price of their tickets to Paradise and the 72 virgins.
> This is also why Israel kicks their asses each and every time.
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