We already know what Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams, Walter Cronkite, John Kerry, Judge Murtha and company think about the allegations streaming daily from Iraq regarding Marine transgressions that may or may not have occurred. They as can be expected are using these allegations just as they were and are intended to be used by our adversaries just as useful idiots do.
Well the enemy propoganda is falling on deaf ears here and I will take the word of real world soldiers that know what the score is over there right now and will await the outcomes of official iunvestigations, not the staged propaganda shots being circulated right now in the media provided by who knows whom, and not what it was like for John Kerry & Judge Murtha in Vietnam 30 years ago.
Well the enemy propoganda is falling on deaf ears here and I will take the word of real world soldiers that know what the score is over there right now and will await the outcomes of official iunvestigations, not the staged propaganda shots being circulated right now in the media provided by who knows whom, and not what it was like for John Kerry & Judge Murtha in Vietnam 30 years ago.
W. Thomas Smith Jr. on Haditha & Iraq on National Review Online: "Nothing in the human experience is more physically exhausting, mentally challenging, and emotionally rattling than ground combat, particularly that which is fought in tooth-to-eyeball proximity to the enemy. It does things to soldiers that people who have never experienced it will never truly comprehend.
“Everyone in ground combat is in a constant state of exhaustion, sleep deprivation, high strung emotions and nervous tension. All are anticipating the next action,” says retired U.S. Marine Col. John W. Ripley.
He should know: As the legendary leatherneck who almost single-handedly blunted the North Vietnamese Army�"
Easter Offensive in 1972 by blowing up the Dong-Ha bridge while under heavy enemy fire, Ripley would testify 20 years later before a Presidential Commission on the very subject of ground combat. He described it as an “overt, aggressive, purposely violent act where violence has an advantageous role.”
In a conversation earlier this week, Ripley told me, “Marines are always alert and prepared to react in combat. The responsibility then falls to the leader to prevent them from overreacting, and often it is not easy.”
For those tasked with engaging the enemy in violent ground combat, the potential for overreaction is a variable that simply never goes away. read more
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