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| ’We shoot them down like the morons they are’: US general |
| 2003-04-09 |
| Hundreds of Muslim fighters, many of them non-Iraqis, were putting up a stronger fight for Baghdad than Iraq's Republican Guard or the regular army, a top United States military officer said yesterday. Appears the RG has now dropped below "vaunted" to "invisible". "They stand, they fight, sometimes they run when we engage them," Brigadier-General John Kelly said."But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are." Looks like they buy into the 72 virgins thing. Brave, horny, dumb...dead. General Kelly, assistant commander of the about 20,000-strong 1st Marine Division, said US intelligence indicated that there might be anywhere between 500 and 5000 of the fighters, whom he described as terrorists."They appear willing to die. We are trying our best to help them out in that endeavour," he said. Looks like the Iraqis aren't the only threat we're eliminating. General Kelly said a captured Syrian fighter who had his leg blown off had refused medical help. "They are arrogant. They are determined," he said. If that's what he wants, then let him bleed. The fighters were armed with AK47 rifles and hand-held rockets, he said. "We are finding them more dangerous than the conventional Iraqi units." General Kelly said pockets of the Republican Guard and Iraq's regular army were engaging thousands of US marines who had entered Baghdad from the north-east after seizing control of bridges across the Tigris River. The resistance was uncoordinated, he said."There's no shifting of forces ... there are no reinforcements ... there is no cohesion to the whole thing." Any rational military command would have surrendered by now, he said. Key word: "rational". "There can be no escape." General Kelly said marines were about to seize buildings and land in Baghdad that were of strategic importance."Once we take ground we tend not to give it up." Moshe Dayan was asked once what the best tactic was to become a victorious general. He said, "Fight Arabs." |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 Let's just call this what it is - the "natural (de)selection process." We're helping the Darwinian theory by removing their genes from the collective human pool. |
| Posted by: Larry 2003-04-09 21:03:13 |
| #8 Seems to me there's some historical bad blood between the Syrians and at least one of these groups. Don't remember which, though. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-04-09 13:18:52 |
| #7 Sorta like fishing the floaties out of the gene pool, liberalhawk? |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-09 11:55:56 |
| #6 does anyone else start to think that Syria let these people into Iraq cause they wanted them dead? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-09 11:22:41 |
| #5 Don't count 'em out yet. The stupid ones are dying. The smart ones are running or going to ground. They'll be back. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-04-09 10:52:26 |
| #4 They're bullies -- can't stand up in a real fight. And that one-legged Syrian guy? Welcome to Gitmo. |
| Posted by: someone 2003-04-09 10:25:07 |
| #3 These "fierce" fighters from Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLA, etc, didnt look so good up against trained infantry, instead of their usual target of unarmed women and children. They lost over 1000 dead for every US Marine *wounded*, in terms of the terrorist wannabees (i.e. the didnt manage to kill any Marines) It was rather nice of the Hezbollah to go charging into the Marines sector - the Marines have 20 years of payback saved up from the bombing of the Barracks in Beirut. The Marines are serving it up cold, and in large volumes. Raw fact: the more Murat-like zealots that kill themselves now by charging armored vehicles with AKs, the less of them that we will have to help the Iraqi police hunt down later. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2003-04-09 10:15:19 |
| #2 How about a joint Iraqi-Coalition press conference with Kelly against Infoman? I bet that would sound quite like the parrot sketch... "Our brave freedom fighters are manning the walls of babylon to keep out the infidels!" "They're dead." "Our glorious Republican Guard are annihilating the mercenaries wherever they encounter them!" "They charged us in Burqas. We shot 'em." |
| Posted by: mhd 2003-04-09 10:08:42 |
| #1 No offense to Brooks, but could Kelly run a press conference for once? Sounds like that would be a show I'd pay to view... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-09 09:22:28 |