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The Great Toad · Joined: 12 Jun 2004

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050804/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

The Cowards blew 14 of my brothers to their Maker. It's when I read stuff like this that I wish I was still in the Marines so I could go on some raids and take out these evil terrorist cowards. I must check

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html

again to see if I know any of them. I don't know how they are going to solve this problem. Perhaps only another ruthless dictator can settle this country. But, that of course would mean forgetting about correctly identifying the opposition forces (as they do now) and just suppressing any and everybody who could possibly disagree with you (what goes on in North Korea now). Maybe if they could bring back the Spanish Inquisition from the Middle ages � that sure took care of the Moors. No no bad joke- that level of cruelty is about the same as Saddam's. Still they need to be more proactive somehow - while still not becoming tyrannical and evil like the past.

supernick · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

If you feel so strongly, maybe you could re-enlist and teach those a lesson.

How dare they attack they attack the invaders. Shocked

I feel for the persons who lost their lives and for their families, however your anger seems a little misguided, as it was your leader and many of your voters who supperted this war, and this is just a price you have to pay.

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

The Great Toad · Joined: 12 Jun 2004

Noway am I going to go back in... ahh I'm to old for that sit around and wait stuff. Ummm I just feel bad cause peole are so dumb they could have a great country with all that oil money they could make, but instead they just go and attack the "invaders" because they want to set up some kind of crazy cut-off-your-hand Islam state.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

It's been a bad couple of days for Ohio. 6 on Tuesday and 14 on Wednesday.

supernick · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

wah cry me a river they are SOLDIERS. Soldiers job is to put his life on the line. Sorry I don't feel no pity for any soldier its their job.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I was under the impression that soldiers were people.
Doing a job.
Probably not too keen to be there.

Step back from realpolitik for a moment and try thinking of them as people rather than cannon-fodder some time, Metternich.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Don't want to be distatseful or anything, but I have seen the video of this particular attack released by the insurgents-and several others including the carbombings from the past month. gruesome stuff.

nowadays when claiming responsibility, they video the ambush and release the footage to the press not only to back up their claim but spread more terror I guess.
i won't post the actual links to that, but instead- here are a lot of Muslim extremists talking about why they fight etc. As you see, insurgents in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo etc were drawn from all over- including many british, American and even Australian muslims.

http://www.islamic-news.co.uk/

rok_the-boat · Joined: 24 Jan 2004

Something tells me, if they did not release it - we would not hear about it.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

When suicide bombers kill civilians they are called cowards and rightly so. When one of them can take out 14 marines he's just fighting back as best he can. Were you for the invasion? If so, perhaps before you backed it you should have considered the possibility that 2 1/2 years after the invasion started the invaders would still be facing attacks?

BTW, who's a bigger coward, someone who sacrifices his own life killing enemy soldiers, or someone who sits back and presses a button, well out of harm's way, killing enemy soldiers?

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

The Great Toad · Joined: 12 Jun 2004

Well I shall only in reply have my role-model who though maybe not quite as fearsomely unmatched as me in the profession of the military was in fact perhaps truly braver...

http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/42/

Happy the blest ages that knew not the dread fury of those
devilish engines of artillery, whose inventor I am persuaded is in
hell receiving the reward of his diabolical invention, by which he
made it easy for a base and cowardly arm to take the life of a gallant
gentleman; and that, when he knows not how or whence, in the height of
the ardour and enthusiasm that fire and animate brave hearts, there
should come some random bullet, discharged perhaps by one who fled
in terror at the flash when he fired off his accursed machine, which
in an instant puts an end to the projects and cuts off the life of one
who deserved to live for ages to come. And thus when I reflect on
this, I am almost tempted to say that in my heart I repent of having
adopted this profession of knight-errant in so detestable an age as we
live in now; for though no peril can make me fear, still it gives me
some uneasiness to think that powder and lead may rob me of the
opportunity of making myself famous and renowned throughout the
known earth by the might of my arm and the edge of my sword. But
Heaven's will be done; if I succeed in my attempt I shall be all the
more honoured, as I have faced greater dangers than the knights-errant
of yore exposed themselves to."

But I call them cowards as in many cases they kill unarmed men and civilians who happen to be in the area of their bomb. Admittedly some stray bombs have slain Iraqi civilians; however, this was not the target of the Chair Force eerr Air Force (Death from Above - or recon u laz it and we raze it) Anyhow ahh the Airforce does not try to kill civilians, but the terrorist knownly frag civilian workers and slay children who happen to be in the area of say a funeral or police office.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Actually the insurgents are deliberately attacking iraqi civilians. Its not accidental (as in the case of the U.S forces). Seems pretty cowardly to me:)

Insurgency continues targeting civilians
The fighters doing battle with U.S. troops have made up a new set of deadly rules with Iraqis as victims
BY MOHAMAD BAZZI
MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT August 5, 2005

"These so-called freedom fighters are terrorizing the Iraqi people. They are killing many more civilians than American soldiers," said Ali Abdel Ameer, an Iraqi writer and political activist. "They will never have a large following because most Iraqis find their actions abhorrent."

Since a renewed wave of violence in early April, insurgents have killed more than 2,700 Iraqis, according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry. Half of those killed were civilians, and the rest were members or recruits of the country's security forces.

Even the bloodiest rebellions of modern times did not target civilians the way the insurgents have in Iraq

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-worebe0805,0,501541.story?coll=ny-homepage-bigpix2005

Iraq Puts Civilian Toll at 12,000
Insurgency Claiming About 20 People a Day

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, June 3, 2005; Page A01
BAGHDAD, June 2 -- Insurgent violence has claimed the lives of 12,000 Iraqis over the past 18 months, Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Thursday, giving the first official count for the largest category of victims of bombings, ambushes and other increasingly deadly attacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060201098.html