INDC in Iraq: The lighter side of Fallujah
posted at 1:34 pm on January 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Hint: it’s not so light.
Insurgents fired five mortars at the police station on Wednesday in an attempt to “dial in” the location. Though I’ve learned to ignore them when they land at a distance, a sufficiently large and close one authored a ringing crack and boom, and I instinctively skipped to put both the fellow with whom I was conversing and a sturdy pillar between the direction of the explosion and my precious behind. I didn’t move fast enough, as he smiled kindly and said:
“You haven’t been here too long, have you? I’m used to them. Maybe that’s bad, but if they’re gonna get you, they’re gonna get you.”
There are some happy moments, though.
Days later, looking at the twisted remains of dead insurgents lent stark perspective: this is what death looks like, this is how and where the fiery struggle ends. All that these people were – very much like the animated Iraqis milling about them – is gone, and only a broken husk remains. I forced myself to look at them, and despite my respect for life and the tangible gravity of the reminder about war’s stakes, as well as the gruesome nature of their poses and and injuries, I remained oddly unmoved. Clinical. I’m not sure what to think about that, except an apathetic…
Pictured below between the Marines: Iraqi Lance Cpl. Abdul Rahman al-Ardolino and Delta Force covert operative Lt. Glenn Ellers Ellensburg, a.k.a. “Viper.”
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Thanks for the insight, AP. Any view of our heroes fighting in our stead is much appreciated. Even more so in a hellhole like Fallujah.
For anybody interested in the Battle of Fallujah, read “We Were One”. Literally door to door, room by room battlefield accounts of one of the worst fights the Marines have been in since Hu City.
God bless those brave Troops who fight over *there* so that *we* don’t have to fight here at home.
And screw you friggin’ Dhimmis who don’t care if we lose to the global jihad because you don’t breed and therefore have no kids who’ll be left “paying the price” of appeasement.
Tony737 on January 12, 2007 at 1:58 PM
See, leftards? If The Gimp can leave his gagball and join the effort in Iraq, surely you can do the same in Afghanistan. Activate the 82nd Chairborne!
Kid from Brooklyn on January 12, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Time to call some of the home boys, get a blow torch and a set of pliers, and go midevil on these Michael Foxtrots!
PinkyBigglesworth on January 12, 2007 at 2:17 PM
Nice. Do you share this opinion Allahpundit? And if not, why aren’t you repudiating it? Perhaps you should be held to the same standard you hold say the DU. Some of the filth that posts here are truly offensive, and yet, narry a word from you, Mrs Malkin or any of the others that blog here. Hmmm.
Oh, and what exactly are “Michael Foxtrots”?
THeDRiFTeR on January 12, 2007 at 3:08 PM
Er, no, I don’t share it. If Pinky wants to talk mindless smack, it’s his deficiency. Mind if I ask what’s crawled up your ass about DU? Some of them accused my boss of having falsified her work; plenty of other people on the left are stupid enough to believe something like that; I took quick action to shoot it down. Cut and dried. What’s the problem?
Allahpundit on January 12, 2007 at 3:14 PM
Michael Foxtrots = “MFs”. I think you can take it from there…
You want Allah to do our business – wrong. We, the other commenters, will point out what you have managed to not even bother to do. *ahem*
PB – I’m not sure what that means except it looks like a crude call for lots of people to be killed, hurt, etc. No thanks. I, and the rest of those I serve with don’t mind taking the fight to those that deserve it, but don’t paint with too broad a brush. It sure looks like a version of “Kill them all, God shall know his own”…
major john on January 12, 2007 at 3:15 PM
Aw darn it, AP, you got in one minute a ‘fore me.
major john on January 12, 2007 at 3:16 PM
And no sooner do I point out to Drifter that plenty of people on his side are sufficiently slackjawed to believe the DU bullshit that this ends up at dKos. QED.
Allahpundit on January 12, 2007 at 3:22 PM
Sorry guys, I was just referring to the Gimp from the movie…
PinkyBigglesworth on January 12, 2007 at 3:28 PM
I don’t give a good god damned about DU. I certainly don’t think that they represent anyone but the rabid little group that hangs there, somewhat like here. Think you that your commenters are representative of the american right?
Your “boss” accused the Associated Press of having falsified their work and plenty here on the “right” are prepared to swallow that whole also, so what’s your point? That nutbars exist on both sides of the debate? You’ll not get an argument out of me.
THeDRiFTeR on January 12, 2007 at 3:31 PM
DRiFTeR,
With freedom-to-post comes responsibility. Pinky said something dumb, was called on it, and apologized.
Does this ever happen at DU or on other Lefty sites? See the difference?
CliffHanger on January 12, 2007 at 4:23 PM
With extremely strong evidence behind it. I know you like to shape the debate, but unlike at DUH, that gets clobbered here when it’s moronic. 61+ single-sourced, unsubstantiated, oncorroborated, anti-American stories run by AP, several of which were laterly explicitly proven false, none of which can be verified by local people, and the “source” is denying. Who’s swallowing what whole, hmmm?
Meanwhile, to further prove the difference you like to rub out between this site and DU/dKOS, try posting ONCE in direct opposition to the blog manager in one of those, as you do here constantly. And you’re still here. Though I’ll bet the tolerance limit for your foolishness is well nigh met.
Don’t know what AP thinks, but the answer is yes. A rather broad variety of perspectives and opinions here, if you had eyes to see. I submit the variety of stances on: the NAU issue; Ellis swearing in on a Koran; 2nd amendment limitations; GLBT rights; etc. So fairly representative.
Perhaps it just seems to you that we all think alike because we tend to view stupidity the same way.
Freelancer on January 12, 2007 at 7:27 PM
Obviously, you don’t know what Delta Uniforms are either.
In a friendly move: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Siera, Tango, Uniform, Victor and Whiskey.
Alas, you did point out, unwittingly, that it’s Mike and not Michael. All are used internationally. I wonder if a committee today would pass them from a PC and multi-culti standpoint, as way many are in English and masculine…
Entelechy on January 12, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Like if they made those collector cards like they did with the Desert Storm campaign I would highly covet my “Viper” card!
Drtuddle on January 13, 2007 at 10:58 AM
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