Jack Kelley is right "...Fallujah ranks up there with Iwo Jima, Inchon and Hue as one of the greatest triumphs of American arms, though you'd have a hard time discerning that from what you read in the newspapers." Please note that the NYT uses post Vietnam editing unlike Jack Kelley. Marine as in a Marine is a proper noun and it should be capitalized unless you are writing for Castro's Gramna then of course neither God (god; dios) nor Marine can be captialized. Of its the 'insurgents' vs. "marine" 'killers'. Of course, we can add 'baby-killer' also if we are John Kerry and co. There is a great Scottish word for this SCUNNER meaning to completely and thoroughly DISGUST. The Liberal Inquistion of the New York Times SCUNNERS ME.
The book to read is END OF ILLUSIONS. Bush, Blair and Howard are keeping us safe from additional terrorist attacks and are REDUCING the chance of WWIII or an attack with WMD by rooting out the terrorists in their nests. Unlike Vietnam we are gutting their supply and training centers. Vietnam failed because we allowed FRANCE, BRITAIN -yes even Britain- China and Russia to sell food, munitions and supplies without hinderance for most of the war. All because LBJ had no balls really because China had A-bombs. We should have mined Haiphong Harbor from the beginning and bombed all the dikes OR NOT INTERVENED AT ALL.
At least Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and Mr. Howard have a plan and a goal unlike LBJ who nearly wrecked this country economically, morally and militarily. Yes, my father and my whole family supported LBJ (and Humphrey and JFK before that) 100%. My father said it was the worst mistake of his life because it set up the take over of the Democratic party by the Quota Loving (Social) Democratic McGovernites in the 1968-1972.

I just got a call Saturday night from a former student. He was at the funeral mass of a young Marine Lance Corporal who died in the service of his country under very tragic circumstances. We all knew him, we respected him and, yes, we loved him and his friends. The men of honor, the young braves who enlisted after 9/11 to defend America without fear or hesitation. Those are the heroes, they are Marines, as you said, worthy of the Devil Dogs or the heroes of Henderson Field or the Frozen Chosin or the men of Khe Sahn. As long as we have men like this America will endure. Bin Laden, beware, they are coming for you and your ilk and you will go the way of the Madhi and the Thugs and Herr Hitler to whom you owe so much more than you realize. The worst punishment imaginable for the likes of Bin Laden, whom I believe to be a religious man, is to realize the horror that he served not God but has become in fact Mr. Screwtape's Disciple. I almost feel pity for him Almost.
Here is an old triad of the common sense tradition:

There is a peace that comes only after war.

Do not seek the fight but shun it not.

Fight the good fight and hit hard:The killing of a tyrant is justice.

And as Burns sang

LAY THE PROUD USURPERS LOW,
TYRANTS FALL IN EVERY FOE
LIBERTY's IN EVERY BLOW
LET US DO OR DEE!

That's the spirit we need in this fight. We dare not pull back now and give in to those so called 'insurgents' AKA the Muj, the Murder Cultists. I recall Muhammad said those who harm people of the book will not even smell paradise. Remember who started this. There is such a thing as a just war. Sure there are good Muslims they are proving it every day in most of Iraq but there are the Muj extremists. They must be expunged as were the cults of Assassins and Thugs to the very last and without mercy as long as they remain in the field.

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