Comments on: Video: Glorious Iraqi resistance routs Marine Army crusader occupiers

By: thejackal

thejackal — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:47:26 +0000

Attack sheep. What next? Attack Llamas!

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:44:25 +0000

jump the ~~shark~~ sheep

no?

By: Seixon

Seixon — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:18:46 +0000

Even the sheep have turned against us!!

Pull out now!

By: Parker

Parker — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:08 +0000

They are in BIG trouble now -

That’s the Mullah’s girl!

By: BadgerHawk

BadgerHawk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:40:49 +0000

The Sheep was the kewlest of weapons in Worms.

- The Cat

I prefer the super sheep from Worms2. Aerial guided baa boom!

By: sdd

sdd — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:56:32 +0000

They’ve already wired bombs to dogs (since they consider mutts “unclean”… but maybe they think more highly of sheep..).

Since there a no virgins left for the suicide bombers the mullahs are now promising sheep. My guess is that sheep are highly valued animals these days.

By: DoctorDentons

DoctorDentons — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:49:59 +0000

Pilgrim…Damn straight ! Just don’t let a ‘non-reg’ do it !

By: Mazztek

Mazztek — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:44:51 +0000

YOu know, this isn’t the first army-vs-sheep video out there.
What’s up with that??

– SSgt, USMC-R-sheepish

(in case it no workie workie: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d1_1180141248 )

By: Pilgrim

Pilgrim — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:57:01 +0000

Pilgrim…now that is just plain wrong !

SEMPER FI

DoctorDentons on June 26, 2007 at 9:39 AM

All in good fun. ;)
Pilgrim
138th FA BDE, USA

By: cjn

cjn — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:45:09 +0000

Great screen cap!!

Sounds like something ‘Baghdad Bob’ would be spewing!!

That ram was just defending his ewes. And, ewes are not dangerous. Rams can be though. I raised sheep for 4-H, way back in the day. Sheep can be the dumbest animals in the world.

That video was priceless.

By: radjah shelduck

radjah shelduck — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:40:01 +0000

This ram is having a better season than the St. Louis Rams will.

By: DoctorDentons

DoctorDentons — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:39:42 +0000

Pilgrim…now that is just plain wrong !

SEMPER FI

By: cmdrsubfleet

cmdrsubfleet — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:32:56 +0000

Glad I’m not a Hindu.

What is this comment supposed to mean?

It is obvious that these soldiers have no experience with livestock. All livestock, including sheep (ewes & rams) have the potential to be dangerous. Sure, sure, all fun and games right? Who was keeping watch while they were distracted? And judging from the wool load these sheep were carrying, concealing an remotely detonated IED would be a simple matter.

By: Pilgrim

Pilgrim — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:55:10 +0000

Thank GAWD these guys were Army. If they were Marines I don’t think even LiveLeak would release the video!…perhaps the end when all the sheep had cigarettes and a strange smile on their faces…

By: polokfla

polokfla — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:42:04 +0000

A brainstorm just happened.
Why don’t the Army use these sheep as point-sheep when we are on patrol. That would save our roadside bomb casualties. The worst that would happen is: “instant mutton.”
The best that would happen is the creation of martyr sheep who then get 72 virgin sheep to do sheep stuff with for eternity after they are blown up. The allah of sheep will be well pleased! Pictures of the brave sheep will be posted in all the schools! Allah Akbar!
…But where are the burkas for the ewes? I digress…

By: DoctorDentons

DoctorDentons — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:32:54 +0000

Decider…using ‘Trojan’s’ and ‘sheep’ together in the same sentence conjures up all kinds of images !

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:19:57 +0000

IES? (Improvised Explosive Sheep)

Johnny Carson had that idea years ago, during one of his Karnak The Magnificent skits:

Karnak holds envelope to his head and says,
“Sis boom bah”.

He opens the envelope and reads,
“Describe the sound when a sheep explodes.”

By: atadOFF

atadOFF — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:11:36 +0000

ahhh…death by a thousands puns! aaaaah!

By: hinduconservative

hinduconservative — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:10:56 +0000

RADICAL ISLAMIC SHEEP!

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:33:33 +0000

These sheep just emerged from the mosque barn where they got whipped into a bleeting frenzy by a radical Ewe.

By: Viper1

Viper1 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:14:23 +0000

The patch you speak of the square with three diagonal bars?

American8298 on June 26, 2007 at 1:55 AM

3rd ID,
Army.

By: PRCalDude

PRCalDude — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:57:42 +0000

“[I]s there a way to reduce those house-borne I.E.D.’s without destroying the whole block?”

Of course not. This shouldn’t even be a question at this point in the war. If we’d done this from the beginning, there’d be thousands more Iraqis alive.

By: American8298

American8298 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:55:57 +0000

The patch you speak of the square with three diagonal bars?

By: gator70

gator70 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:22:22 +0000

Answers to above questions:
1. These days we do not let Sheep herds close to our compounds/patrols because IED’s have been strapped to sheep.
2. Not Marines. They are wearing Tri-colors and if you look closely you can see a patch on the left shoulder of one of the soldiers. Marines do not wear patches as a general rule.
3.In answer to the question in the original post, there isn’t much you can do about IED’s that are set up around in oor on houses. Everything is done to negate collateral damage but sometimes it happens, no human life is worth any house, they are ususally payed for damages as long as they had nothing to do with it.
I know the first two answers are kind of like splitting hairs, but it’s a Marine thing. I appreciate all of the good reporting hot air does! Semper Fi.

By: smellthecoffee

smellthecoffee — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:50:35 +0000

thedecider on June 26, 2007 at 12:30 AM

So the sheep can’t get their hooves into the waistbands of their trousers. Verrry clever.