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Don't believe everything you hear/read/see from the mainstream media cause it ain't necessarily so...
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003, 11:09:09 GMT
Hey Guys, sorry it's been so long since I've sent anything but a quick
note to you individually. However things have been pretty hectic
since the end of hostilities and the start of the real war. Despite
what the ???????s in the press like to say over and over: 1) We did
expect some armed resistance from the Ba'ath Party and Feydaheen; 2)
It isn't any worse than expected; 3) Things are getting better each
day, and 4) The morale of the troops is A-1, except for the normal
bitching and griping.
My brief love affair with the press, especially the guys who had
the cajones to be embedded with the troops during the fighting, is
probably over, especially since we are back being criticized by the
same Roland Headly types that used to hang around the Palestine Hotel
drinking Baghdad Bob's whiskey and parroting his ridiculous B.S.
I'm in Baghdad now, since SpOpComm 5 relocated here from Qatar.
It looks, sounds and smells about the same but at least you can get
Maker's Mark at the local OC. We came up in mid-June to help set up
operation Scorpion and Sidewinder. It represents a major (and long
overdue) shift in tactics. Instead of being sitting ducks for the
ragheads we now are going after the worthless pieces of fecal matter.
I'm no longer baby-sitting the pukes from CNN and the canned hams
from the networks, but have a combat mission coordinating a bunch of A
teams, seeking, finding and rooting out the mostly non-Iraqis that are
well-armed, well-paid (in U.S. dollars) and always waiting to wail
for the press and then shoot some GI in the back in the midst of a
crowd. The only reason the GIs are pissed (not demoralized) is that
they cannot touch, must less waste, those taunting bags of gas that
scream in their faces and riot on cue when they spot a camera man from
ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN or NBC. If they did, then they know the next
nightly news will be about how chaotic things are and how much the
Iraqi people hate us. Some do. But the vast majority don't and
more and more see that the GIs don't start anything, are by-and-large
friendly, and very compassionate, especially to kids and old people.
I saw a bunch of 19 year-olds from the 82nd Airborne not return
fire coming from a mosque until they got a group of elderly civilians
out of harm's way. So did the Iraqis. A bunch of bad guys used a
group of women and children as human shields. The GIs surrounded
them and negotiated their surrender fifteen hours later and when they
discovered a three year-old girl had been injured by the big tough
guys throwing her down a flight of stairs, the GIs called in a MedVac
helicopter to take her and her mother to the nearest field hospital.
The Iraqis watched it all, and there hasn't been a problem in that
neighborhood since.
How many such stories, and there are hundreds of them, ever get
reported in the fair and balanced press? You know, nada. The
civilians who have figured it out faster than anyone are the local
teenagers. They watch the GIs and try to talk to them and ask
questions about America and Now wear wrap-around sunglasses, GAP
T-shirts, Dockers (or even better Levis with the red tags) and Nikes
(or Egyptian knock-offs, but with the "swoosh") and love to listen to
AFN when the GIs play it on their radios. They participate less and
less in the demonstrations and help keep us informed when a wannabe
bad-??? shows up in the neighborhood. The younger kids are going
back to school again, don't have to listen to some mullah rant about
the Koran ten hours a day, and they get a hot meal. They see the
same GIs who man the corner checkpoint, helping clear the playground,
install new swingsets and create soccer fields. I watched a bunch of
kids playing baseball in one playground, under the supervision of a
couple of GIs from Oklahoma. They weren't very good but were having
fun, probably more than most Little Leaguers The place is still a
mess but most of it has been for years.
>
But the Hospitals are open and are in the process of being brought
into the 21st Century. The MOs and visiting surgeons from home are
teaching their docs new techniques and One American pharmaceutical
company (you know, the kind that all the hippies like to scream about
as greedy) donated enough medicine to stock 45 hospital pharmacies for
a year. Safe water is more available. Electricity has been
restored to pre-war levels but saboteurs keep cutting the lines. And
The old Ba'ath big shots are upset because they can't get fuel for
their private generators. One actually complained to General
McKeirnan, who told him it was a rough world.
The MPs are screening the 80,000 Iraqi police force and rehabbing
the ones that weren't goons, shake-down artists or torturers like they
did in East Berlin, Kosovo and Afghanistan. There are dual patrols
of Iraqi cops and U.S./U.K./Polish MPs now in most of the larger
cities. Basra has 3.5 million inhabitants. Mosul is a city of 2
million. Kirkuk has 1 million. How many and hundreds of other small
towns have not had riots or shootings? The vast majority.
The six U.K. cops were killed in a small Shiite town by the
ex-cops they were re-habbing. According to a Royal Marine colonel I
talked to, the town now has about twenty permanent vacancies in its
police force. Mick, he's a big potato eater from Belfast named
Huggins and knows how to handle terrorists after twenty years fighting
with the IRA. He sends his regards and says he'd love to have you
here. Thinks you'd make a great police chief, even though the cops
would be more frightened of you than the local hoods (then he laughed)
I heard one doofus on MSNBC the other night talk about how "nearly
60" GIs have been killed since 01 May. The truth is that 21 GIs have
been killed in combat, mostly from ambush, from 01 May through 30
June, Another 29 have been killed by accidents or other causes (two
drowned while swimming in the Tigris). The MSNBC idiot is the same
jerk who reported on the air that "dozens of GIs" were badly burned
when two RPGs hit a truck belonging to an Engineer Battalion that was
parked by a construction site. The truck was hit and burned, three
GIs received minor injuries (including the driver who burnt his hand)
and three warriors of Allah were promptly sent to enjoy their 72 slave
girls in Paradise. Hell of a way to get laid.
A mosque in that ????hole Fallujah blew up this morning while the
local imam, a creep named Fahlil (who was one of the biggest local
loudmouths that frequently appeared on CNN) was helping a Syrian Hamas
member teach eight teenagers how to make belt bombs. Right away the
local Feyhadeen propaganda group started wailing that the Americans
hit it with a TOW missile (If they had there wouldn't have been any
mosque left!) and the usual suspects took to the streets for CNN and
BBC. One fool was dragging around a piece of tin with blood on it,
claiming it was part of the missile. The cameras rolled and the
idiot started repeating his story, then one of my guys asked him in
Arabic where he had left the rag he usually wore around his face that
made him look like a girl. He was a local leader of the Feyhadeen.
We took the clown in custody and were asked rather indignantly by the
twit from BBC if we were trying to shut up "the poor man who had seen
his mosque and friends blown up." I told the airy-fairy who the
raghead was and if he knew Arabic (which he obviously didn't) he'd
know he was a Palestinian. I suggested we take him down to the local
jail and we'd lock him and his cameraman in a cell with the "poor man"
and they could interview him until we took him to headquarters. They
declined the invitation.
Guess what played on the Bull???? Broadcasting System that
evening? Did the Americans blow up a mosque? See the poor man who is
still in a state of shock over losing his mosque and relatives? Yep.
Our friend the Palestinian. Our search and destroy missions are
largely at night, free of reporters and generally terrifying to those
brave warriors of Allah. The only thing that frightens them more is
hearing the word "Gitmo". The word is out that a trip to Guantanimo
Bay is not a Caribbean vacation and they usually start squealing like
the little mice they are, when an interrogator mentions "Gitmo". No
wonder the International Red Cross, the National Council of Churches
and the French keep protesting about the place. They know it has
proven to be very effective in keeping several hundred real fanatical
psychopaths in check and very frankly would rather see them cut loose
to go kill some more GIs or innocent Americans, just to make W. look
bad.
>
We have about 200 really bad guys in custody now and probably will
park them in the desert behind a triple roll of razor wire, backed up
by a couple of Bradleys pointed their way, if they decide to riot.
Maybe a few will get to Gitmo but most are human garbage that
wouldn't take on your five-year old grandson face-to-face. The more
we go after them and not vice-versa I think we will see the sniper
attacks go down. Yeah, they'll get lucky now and then, but it's
showtime, fellows. Our first objective is to get the die-hards off
the street (or make them too scared to come out in them) and destroy
their caches of weapons (we have collected more than 227,000 A-47s and
that is only the tip of the iceburg; Curly bought nearly a million of
them from our pal Vladimir), then cut off their money supply, mostly
from Syria and Lebanon.
We must continue to get public services up and running, so the
local families can get water, sewage and garbage service; electricity,
public transportation; oil fields and refineries working and a dinar
that won't halve in value every month. It's going to be a long haul
(remember it took 10-15 years in Japan and West Germany) but if we
don't stick with it, nobody else will, and we'll have some other
looney running the place again. This place has greater potential
than Saudi Arabia (bunch of goat-herders who struck black gold) or
Iran (weird dudes who can't run a rug bazaar much less a major country).
I keep telling myself even the Democrats can't be that
self-destructive. But then I look at the current line-up. The
cream of the crap. If that lying bitch ever gets elected we're
really in trouble. By we, I mean the whole world. She'll slide
just plain Bill in as the Secretary-General of the U.N. and then the
whole world will be trying to take our great country ... the greatest
ever (and that's coming from an ex-Canuck) ... down and civilization
with it. Armageddon, here we come. Remember, it's located on the
outskirts of Jerusalem. Enough of that cheery speculation.
The good news is that General Schoonmaker is going to appointed
ChiefArmy and the old man is coming to Tampa to run the SpOps desk at
CentComm. He's tops and will be getting his second star. To me it
means that SpOps will be more predominant in future operations and
after 18 years as a GB maybe I'll have a shot at a bird-level combat
command. The old man asked me to come to MacDill and be his ACS but
I told him after I spent four months changing the diapers of the media
types, I wanted to go back to action. Hence, my current gig. As
the movie quoted old General Patton, "God help me, I love it." I do.
Nothing more satisfying than working with the BEST damn soldiers in
the world, flushing real human poop down the drain and giving some
folks a chance at trying freedom for a change. They may learn to
like it and then my great-great-grandson won't have to worry about
some maniac trying to destroy the planet.
My tour is over at the end of August, and I plan to return to
Tampa, brief the old man, then head to San Rafael and see my two
sweethearts. I'd like to visit my parents in Toronto and my brother
in London, before taking on a trip across the country. Just like any
other family. It will charge my batteries before I end up back in
some other interesting and challenging location. I hope to see most
of you and ask for some advice, not support. I know I've had that all
along. Thanks. Now about that Maker's Mark.
God Bless America
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003, 11:09:09 GMT
Hey Guys, sorry it's been so long since I've sent anything but a quick
note to you individually. However things have been pretty hectic
since the end of hostilities and the start of the real war. Despite
what the ???????s in the press like to say over and over: 1) We did
expect some armed resistance from the Ba'ath Party and Feydaheen; 2)
It isn't any worse than expected; 3) Things are getting better each
day, and 4) The morale of the troops is A-1, except for the normal
bitching and griping.
My brief love affair with the press, especially the guys who had
the cajones to be embedded with the troops during the fighting, is
probably over, especially since we are back being criticized by the
same Roland Headly types that used to hang around the Palestine Hotel
drinking Baghdad Bob's whiskey and parroting his ridiculous B.S.
I'm in Baghdad now, since SpOpComm 5 relocated here from Qatar.
It looks, sounds and smells about the same but at least you can get
Maker's Mark at the local OC. We came up in mid-June to help set up
operation Scorpion and Sidewinder. It represents a major (and long
overdue) shift in tactics. Instead of being sitting ducks for the
ragheads we now are going after the worthless pieces of fecal matter.
I'm no longer baby-sitting the pukes from CNN and the canned hams
from the networks, but have a combat mission coordinating a bunch of A
teams, seeking, finding and rooting out the mostly non-Iraqis that are
well-armed, well-paid (in U.S. dollars) and always waiting to wail
for the press and then shoot some GI in the back in the midst of a
crowd. The only reason the GIs are pissed (not demoralized) is that
they cannot touch, must less waste, those taunting bags of gas that
scream in their faces and riot on cue when they spot a camera man from
ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN or NBC. If they did, then they know the next
nightly news will be about how chaotic things are and how much the
Iraqi people hate us. Some do. But the vast majority don't and
more and more see that the GIs don't start anything, are by-and-large
friendly, and very compassionate, especially to kids and old people.
I saw a bunch of 19 year-olds from the 82nd Airborne not return
fire coming from a mosque until they got a group of elderly civilians
out of harm's way. So did the Iraqis. A bunch of bad guys used a
group of women and children as human shields. The GIs surrounded
them and negotiated their surrender fifteen hours later and when they
discovered a three year-old girl had been injured by the big tough
guys throwing her down a flight of stairs, the GIs called in a MedVac
helicopter to take her and her mother to the nearest field hospital.
The Iraqis watched it all, and there hasn't been a problem in that
neighborhood since.
How many such stories, and there are hundreds of them, ever get
reported in the fair and balanced press? You know, nada. The
civilians who have figured it out faster than anyone are the local
teenagers. They watch the GIs and try to talk to them and ask
questions about America and Now wear wrap-around sunglasses, GAP
T-shirts, Dockers (or even better Levis with the red tags) and Nikes
(or Egyptian knock-offs, but with the "swoosh") and love to listen to
AFN when the GIs play it on their radios. They participate less and
less in the demonstrations and help keep us informed when a wannabe
bad-??? shows up in the neighborhood. The younger kids are going
back to school again, don't have to listen to some mullah rant about
the Koran ten hours a day, and they get a hot meal. They see the
same GIs who man the corner checkpoint, helping clear the playground,
install new swingsets and create soccer fields. I watched a bunch of
kids playing baseball in one playground, under the supervision of a
couple of GIs from Oklahoma. They weren't very good but were having
fun, probably more than most Little Leaguers The place is still a
mess but most of it has been for years.
>
But the Hospitals are open and are in the process of being brought
into the 21st Century. The MOs and visiting surgeons from home are
teaching their docs new techniques and One American pharmaceutical
company (you know, the kind that all the hippies like to scream about
as greedy) donated enough medicine to stock 45 hospital pharmacies for
a year. Safe water is more available. Electricity has been
restored to pre-war levels but saboteurs keep cutting the lines. And
The old Ba'ath big shots are upset because they can't get fuel for
their private generators. One actually complained to General
McKeirnan, who told him it was a rough world.
The MPs are screening the 80,000 Iraqi police force and rehabbing
the ones that weren't goons, shake-down artists or torturers like they
did in East Berlin, Kosovo and Afghanistan. There are dual patrols
of Iraqi cops and U.S./U.K./Polish MPs now in most of the larger
cities. Basra has 3.5 million inhabitants. Mosul is a city of 2
million. Kirkuk has 1 million. How many and hundreds of other small
towns have not had riots or shootings? The vast majority.
The six U.K. cops were killed in a small Shiite town by the
ex-cops they were re-habbing. According to a Royal Marine colonel I
talked to, the town now has about twenty permanent vacancies in its
police force. Mick, he's a big potato eater from Belfast named
Huggins and knows how to handle terrorists after twenty years fighting
with the IRA. He sends his regards and says he'd love to have you
here. Thinks you'd make a great police chief, even though the cops
would be more frightened of you than the local hoods (then he laughed)
I heard one doofus on MSNBC the other night talk about how "nearly
60" GIs have been killed since 01 May. The truth is that 21 GIs have
been killed in combat, mostly from ambush, from 01 May through 30
June, Another 29 have been killed by accidents or other causes (two
drowned while swimming in the Tigris). The MSNBC idiot is the same
jerk who reported on the air that "dozens of GIs" were badly burned
when two RPGs hit a truck belonging to an Engineer Battalion that was
parked by a construction site. The truck was hit and burned, three
GIs received minor injuries (including the driver who burnt his hand)
and three warriors of Allah were promptly sent to enjoy their 72 slave
girls in Paradise. Hell of a way to get laid.
A mosque in that ????hole Fallujah blew up this morning while the
local imam, a creep named Fahlil (who was one of the biggest local
loudmouths that frequently appeared on CNN) was helping a Syrian Hamas
member teach eight teenagers how to make belt bombs. Right away the
local Feyhadeen propaganda group started wailing that the Americans
hit it with a TOW missile (If they had there wouldn't have been any
mosque left!) and the usual suspects took to the streets for CNN and
BBC. One fool was dragging around a piece of tin with blood on it,
claiming it was part of the missile. The cameras rolled and the
idiot started repeating his story, then one of my guys asked him in
Arabic where he had left the rag he usually wore around his face that
made him look like a girl. He was a local leader of the Feyhadeen.
We took the clown in custody and were asked rather indignantly by the
twit from BBC if we were trying to shut up "the poor man who had seen
his mosque and friends blown up." I told the airy-fairy who the
raghead was and if he knew Arabic (which he obviously didn't) he'd
know he was a Palestinian. I suggested we take him down to the local
jail and we'd lock him and his cameraman in a cell with the "poor man"
and they could interview him until we took him to headquarters. They
declined the invitation.
Guess what played on the Bull???? Broadcasting System that
evening? Did the Americans blow up a mosque? See the poor man who is
still in a state of shock over losing his mosque and relatives? Yep.
Our friend the Palestinian. Our search and destroy missions are
largely at night, free of reporters and generally terrifying to those
brave warriors of Allah. The only thing that frightens them more is
hearing the word "Gitmo". The word is out that a trip to Guantanimo
Bay is not a Caribbean vacation and they usually start squealing like
the little mice they are, when an interrogator mentions "Gitmo". No
wonder the International Red Cross, the National Council of Churches
and the French keep protesting about the place. They know it has
proven to be very effective in keeping several hundred real fanatical
psychopaths in check and very frankly would rather see them cut loose
to go kill some more GIs or innocent Americans, just to make W. look
bad.
>
We have about 200 really bad guys in custody now and probably will
park them in the desert behind a triple roll of razor wire, backed up
by a couple of Bradleys pointed their way, if they decide to riot.
Maybe a few will get to Gitmo but most are human garbage that
wouldn't take on your five-year old grandson face-to-face. The more
we go after them and not vice-versa I think we will see the sniper
attacks go down. Yeah, they'll get lucky now and then, but it's
showtime, fellows. Our first objective is to get the die-hards off
the street (or make them too scared to come out in them) and destroy
their caches of weapons (we have collected more than 227,000 A-47s and
that is only the tip of the iceburg; Curly bought nearly a million of
them from our pal Vladimir), then cut off their money supply, mostly
from Syria and Lebanon.
We must continue to get public services up and running, so the
local families can get water, sewage and garbage service; electricity,
public transportation; oil fields and refineries working and a dinar
that won't halve in value every month. It's going to be a long haul
(remember it took 10-15 years in Japan and West Germany) but if we
don't stick with it, nobody else will, and we'll have some other
looney running the place again. This place has greater potential
than Saudi Arabia (bunch of goat-herders who struck black gold) or
Iran (weird dudes who can't run a rug bazaar much less a major country).
I keep telling myself even the Democrats can't be that
self-destructive. But then I look at the current line-up. The
cream of the crap. If that lying bitch ever gets elected we're
really in trouble. By we, I mean the whole world. She'll slide
just plain Bill in as the Secretary-General of the U.N. and then the
whole world will be trying to take our great country ... the greatest
ever (and that's coming from an ex-Canuck) ... down and civilization
with it. Armageddon, here we come. Remember, it's located on the
outskirts of Jerusalem. Enough of that cheery speculation.
The good news is that General Schoonmaker is going to appointed
ChiefArmy and the old man is coming to Tampa to run the SpOps desk at
CentComm. He's tops and will be getting his second star. To me it
means that SpOps will be more predominant in future operations and
after 18 years as a GB maybe I'll have a shot at a bird-level combat
command. The old man asked me to come to MacDill and be his ACS but
I told him after I spent four months changing the diapers of the media
types, I wanted to go back to action. Hence, my current gig. As
the movie quoted old General Patton, "God help me, I love it." I do.
Nothing more satisfying than working with the BEST damn soldiers in
the world, flushing real human poop down the drain and giving some
folks a chance at trying freedom for a change. They may learn to
like it and then my great-great-grandson won't have to worry about
some maniac trying to destroy the planet.
My tour is over at the end of August, and I plan to return to
Tampa, brief the old man, then head to San Rafael and see my two
sweethearts. I'd like to visit my parents in Toronto and my brother
in London, before taking on a trip across the country. Just like any
other family. It will charge my batteries before I end up back in
some other interesting and challenging location. I hope to see most
of you and ask for some advice, not support. I know I've had that all
along. Thanks. Now about that Maker's Mark.
God Bless America
