The following is
extracted from a message from a Navy Reservist lieutenant
currently assigned to Camp Victory, one of Hussein's former
palaces.
The terrorists are scum . . .
"Well, you can't kill them all." Why the hell not. It seems
to me like it's the only really viable plan we haven't tried.
I'm sure you heard about the IZ
attacks . . . you wanna know where the bastards are really trying
to hit with their rockets/mortars? The Combat Support
Hospital (CSH) . . . referred to as "CASH" . . . That's right . .
. they are trying to hit the damn hospital. Take out our doctors,
nurses, and service people that they've already gotten to in some
degree with some other cowardly manner of warfare.
And what de we do? Go out there and
look . . . 9 times out of 10 . . . the bastards are long gone . .
. or hiding . . . or simply walking around like the other
civilians who probably watched them launch on us.
I tell you, if I was in charge . .
. I'd put an end to that shit right quick. I'd have howitzers all
over this complex. For every rocket or mortar that hits the IZ,
I'd send 10 rounds into the general area that I thought was the
point of origin. Let the ones who look on know . . . "Hey, this is
YOUR country. These people you are AFRAID of . . . are gonna get
you killed . . . one way or another. So STOP THEM . . . or we will
. . . and just hope that you aren't nearby when the return fire comes .
. . 'cause it's comin'."
The terrorists have and continue to
get nasty with us. Brutally nasty. Our failure to use brute force
. . . has landed us in the current situation.
I know collateral damage is hard to
deal lwith and live with . . . but, guess what . . . the
terrorists are already using women, children, fathers, etc . . .
to do evil deeds. Torturing them. Mutilating them. At least
being a collateral casualty to our barrage would probably be quick
and painless.
The thought of all our fallen
comrades . . . compounded by the shame of having to come home and
be branded a "loser" does not sit welll with me . . . I'd rather
finish this mess right now . . . so that my boys won't have to
come to this forsaken region.
Patton is rolling over in his grave
right about now.
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The following was
in reaction to condemnation of killing a wounded insurgent by
firing two round into his head. After an emotional opening in
which the Marine author chides those who think of the war on
terror as a conventional war, he continues.
Here is your typical Marine sitrep (situation
report):
You just took fire from unlawful combatants (no
uniform - breaking every Geneva Convention rule there is) shooting
from a religious building attempting to use sanctuary status of
their position as protection. But you're in Fallujah now, and the
Marine Corps has decided that they're not playing that game this
time. That was Najaf.
So you set the mosque on fire and you hose down
the terrorists with small arms, launch some AT-4s (Rockets), some
40MM grenades into the building and things quiet down. So you run
over there, and find some tangos (bad guys) wounded and pretending
to be dead. You are aware that suicide martyrdom is like really
popular with these idiots and they think taking some Marines with
them would be really cool.
So you can either risk your life and your fire
team's lives by having them cover you while you bend down and
search a guy that you think is pretending to be dead for some
reason. Most of the time these are the guys with the grenade or a
vest made of explosives. Also you don't know who or what is in the
next room. You're already speaking English to the rest of your
fire team or squad which lets the terrorists know you are there and
you are his enemy. You are speaking loud because your hearing is
poor from shooting people for several days.
So you know there are many other rooms to enter,
and that if anyone is still alive in those rooms, they know that
Americans are in the mosque.
Meanwhile (3 seconds later) you still have this
terrorist (that was just shooting at you from a mosque) playing
possum. What do you do? You double tap his head, and you go to the
next room, that's what!.
What about the Geneva Convention and all that
'Law of Land Warfare' stuff? What about it. Without even
addressing the issues at hand, your first thought should be, "I'd
rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6."
Bear in mind that this tactic of double tapping
a fallen terrorist is a perpetual mindset that is reinforced by
experience on a minute-by-minute basis. Secondly, you are fighting
an unlawful combatant in a Sanctuary, which is a double No-No on
his part. Third, tactically you are in no position to take
"prisoners" because there are more rooms to search and clear.
If you are a veteran, then everything I have
just written is self-evident. If you are not a veteran, at least
try to put yourself in the situation. |
