Time For Heroes, Marines Told

Time for heroes, Marines told
New York Daily News ^ | 11/08/04 | AP


NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - As U.S. forces prepared for what is expected to be the biggest Marine-led urban assault since Vietnam, U.S. commanders pumped up troops yesterday, saying they were no different from the storied heroes of Iwo Jima and Korea.
Standing before about 2,500 Marines who stood or knelt at his feet, Lt. Gen. John Sattler, the commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, told them that they would be at the front of the charge, with Iraqi backup.

"This is America's fight," Sattler said. "What we've added to it is our Iraqi partners. They want to go in and liberate Fallujah. They feel this town's being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and terrorists."

Two Marine battalions, along with a battalion from the Army's 1st Infantry Division, will be the lead units sent into a Fallujah attack. They will be joined by two brigades of Iraqi troops.

More than 10,000 U.S. troops massed around the Sunni Muslim city are expected to take a role in the assault on Fallujah, whose green-lighted minarets are visible from the U.S. base near the city.

That's well over twice the number of Americans who were involved in an April siege on Fallujah. That assault lasted for three weeks, until Marines were forced to pull back amid an Iraqi outcry over the hundreds of casualties. Sunni insurgents then tightened their hold.

Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent, the top enlisted Marine in Iraq, told troops the battle of Fallujah would be "no different" from the historic fights at Inchon in Korea, the flag-raising victory at Iwo Jima or the bloody assault to remove North Vietnamese troops who occupied the ancient citadel of Hue in the 1968 Tet offensive.

"You're all in the process of making history," Kent boomed. "This is another Hue city in the making.

"This is a whole can of whoop-butt all combined here," Kent said, surveying the Marines surrounding him.


A pumped-up crowd shouted a deafening "Hoorah" in response.

The Marine battalion commander, Lt. Col. Mike Ramos, predicted that "freedom and democracy" would prevail in Fallujah within days.

He added: "If I see someone who looks like a martyr, driving at high speed toward my unit, I'll send him to Allah before he gets close."

The Associated Press

Originally published on November 8, 2004

Dear Heavenly Father,

May God protect and keep safe,all of our soldiers and all of the innocent..and may the guilty perish...May God strike down the wicked..and let Freedom reign.. In Jesus Christ's Name,Amen

SEMPER FI !!!!

Un fortunateley i feel the need to cross the line and get personal, and deride a free mans opinion.
You are a fucking idiot torog.

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Un fortunateley i feel the need to cross the line and get personal, and deride a free mans opinion.
You are a f*cking idiot torog.

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Howdy Imotep,

You're more than welcome,to express your opinion Imotep,no problem.

Here's a poem for those who wish to appease terrorists:

Sheeple,Sheeple..Have you any wool ?

Yes sir Yes sir..three bags full..

Two for the terrorists takin o'er the plane..

One for the goverment-who feels our pain..

Have a good one...Torog

haha you censored fuck. :)
how many iraqi kids got mauled by "surgical strikes" and you censor a swear word?

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haha you censored f*ck. :)
how many iraqi kids got mauled by "surgical strikes" and you censor a swear word?

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Hopefully,very few kids git hurt in a surgical strike,such is the nature of a 'surgical strike'.

As for censoring your cuss words,I do that because it's rude and impolite to use cuss words in a public forum,also,Ron wants us to refrain from using profanity in our posts. I ain't gonna promote your cussing by leaving it un-censored..real men-don't need to cuss to git their point across. ..and they only cuss-when they mean it.

oh but i did mean it. :)
anyhoo aparenty you dont get all warlike when yr stoned. spark up man.

Torog said this "

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I am sure this is the attitude that jesus wanted all of his people to have , dam you nearly sound like one of these terrorists that you hate so much!, even better change a few words around and will really sound like one.

Also you refer to sheeple, my understaning of calling somebody this is to say that they follow the heard. Now, from what i can gather from reading your prior posts
you appear to be....

1)A George Bush Supporter
2)Believe all the propoganda about terrorism and are there fore scarred to death of Terrorists.
3) A church goer

All these thing put you in the majority.........Sheeple (is it making sense to you yet?)

As you voted George W are you in the 70% who believe he still has WMD?, if you do where the hell are they? under the bed in Saddams cell?

When will you start to wake up and realise that yours and every one elses government is working for hidden agendas, have you not noticed how since 9/11 your civil rights have become erroded with the threat of terrorism used as the excuse. Have you heard of the New World Order?

Some people need to start reading and stop watching the crap that is put infront of them every night when they switch on the TV.


Peace.......... and im still shouting behold a pale horse

Damn Torog, I wish I was there with my old "Ma Duece"! Kinda scary thinking about it though. Urban warfare is about as dangerous as it gets and the General saying "This is another Hue city in the making" is not good since Hue was a very bloody battle. Anyways, I pray for my brothers over there. Hopefully most of the civilians have taken the notice and evacuated all ready.

shit, I'm happy for those Marines. I bet 90% of them have been itching for full fledged combat. Atleast all the Marines I have known during my life have claimed nothing would be better than wasting charlie cause Uncle Sam said so =o)

fuck, I wish I would have stuck with the ROTC program so I could be there right now... girls drugs and alchohol kinda killed my patriotism in highschool though LoL