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2007-06-21 Iraq
Michael Yon - Operation Arrowhead Ripper: Day One
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-06-21 06:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top
 File under: Iraqi Insurgency 

#1 Good luck, good hunting, and stay safe.
Posted by Mike 2007-06-21 07:23||   2007-06-21 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Those guys deserve a good turkey shoot.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-21 08:13||   2007-06-21 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Excalibur is in use,also, according to a report I saw.

Another 15 AQ dead so far today.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2007-06-21 08:26|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org]  2007-06-21 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure that any rocket is an MLRS rocket to a journalist. These are the ones that identify flares as rockets, too.
Posted by gromky 2007-06-21 08:45||   2007-06-21 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Michael Gordon is a NYT reporter who is in the battle. Gordon has been running with other soldiers, so it will be important to hear his accounts. From what I’ve read so far, Gordon has been very accurate and on target.

The New York Times senior editors must be sweating bullets. It's going to be awfully hard to twist the words of one of the only two reporters on the scene; Messers. Gordon and Yon are going to be quoted and giving interviews to all the news outlets world wide.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-21 09:01||   2007-06-21 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Hopefully Yon can make some good money from the photos and interviews! He deserves it.

...but our guys are seriously outsmarting them.

That is why our military is so damn deadly. It isn't only the technology, it is the fact that individual initiative and non-orthodox thinking is still encouraged. Our guys play to win.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-06-21 09:41||   2007-06-21 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7  Our guys want to kill them, and that’s the plan.
Good plan. Dead men hire no lawyers.
Posted by eLarson 2007-06-21 09:52|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-06-21 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 TW: Don't bet on it. The NYTs will find a way to make all this negative as possible. Remember the chattering classes on the west side need more pessimism to go with their champagne.
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-06-21 09:54||   2007-06-21 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 the MSM has already found a way to spin it.

A/P, CBS, et al are simply attributing American casualties to "Continuing Iraqi violence"
Posted by Justrand 2007-06-21 10:48||   2007-06-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder what this meant,

"... I were at a commander briefing when one of the battalion commanders, LTC Smiley, talked about how his soldiers shot some terrorists today (June 20); on different occasions today, women and children came out and “gave aid” to the wounded terrorists..."

were the words "give aid" supposed to mean 'beat up' or something similar?
Posted by mhw 2007-06-21 11:26|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2007-06-21 11:26|| Front Page Top

#11 The Berber tradition is that the women and children follow and slit the throats of the wounded.

Before stealing their boots.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2007-06-21 11:42|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org]  2007-06-21 11:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Now the Rooters Reporter has got something that he can get his negative left wing teeth into:

BAQUBA - A U.S. air strike on a booby-trapped house in Baquba north of Baghdad on Wednesday missed its target and hit a nearby structure, wounding 11 people, the U.S. military said, adding that the incident was under investigation
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-06-21 11:51||   2007-06-21 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 The Berber tradition is that the women and children follow and slit the throats of the wounded.


There are no Berbers in Irak.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2007-06-21 12:33||   2007-06-21 12:33|| Front Page Top

#14 #7 Our guys want to kill them, and that’s the plan.
Good plan. Dead men hire no lawyers.
Posted by: eLarson 2007-06-21 09:52

what eLarson said

re. al-Qaeda, "Nobody is dropping leaflets asking them to surrender. Our guys want to kill them, and that’s the plan."
Posted by RD">RD  2007-06-21 12:52||   2007-06-21 12:52|| Front Page Top

#15 "Nobody is dropping leaflets asking them to surrender. Our guys want to kill them, and that’s the plan."

*Totally* works for me.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-06-21 14:19||   2007-06-21 14:19|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually, the idea that the women and children slaughter enemy wounded is quite common among tribal societies : reference Apache women and Rudyard Kipling's warnings about Afghanistan. And if the US and Iraqi armies are sweeping an area with the support of certain Sunni tribal militias, it would be a very bad thing to be a wounded Al-Q left behind for the women to police up - a very slow and painful death would await. Arab women have been noted before for their knife skills on wounded enemies.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-06-21 17:31||   2007-06-21 17:31|| Front Page Top

#17  Actually, the idea that the women and children slaughter enemy wounded is quite common among tribal societies.

A popular revenue-producing activity enjoyed by camp followers after a Napoleonic-era engagement. The Portuguese and Spanish gals were quite efficient.
Posted by mrp 2007-06-21 18:42||   2007-06-21 18:42|| Front Page Top

#18 Shield,
This kind of 'aid-giving' means we need to be kind of careful about letting loose on those who move into the battle space after the shooting dies down. They might be coming to salvage weapons or retrieve their down fighters, or they might be 'on our side',
Posted by Austin Powers">Austin Powers  2007-06-21 18:45||   2007-06-21 18:45|| Front Page Top

#19 Nobody is dropping leaflets asking them to surrender. Our guys want to kill them, and that’s the plan.

Echoing, Tony. Go team!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-06-21 18:49||   2007-06-21 18:49|| Front Page Top

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