Why is the army and marines getting their butts kicked in iraq?
I would rather be on the US army and Marines side then be on any other side in this world and i m not american, but you should’nt question why the marines and the army are there but question why did the government send them there i m talking about iraq not afghan. If you looking to blame someone for iraq blame the poiliticans not the men and women who put there lifes in danger when there country called them up for a job to be done.
Take a look at this site and tell me if you’re marines are getting their butts kicked? http://icasualties.org/oif/ Ensure you click on Iraqi deaths then carefully match up the numbers…. We are fighting in a new kind of war…this one has no boundaries, no rules, and no way of knowing who is friend and who is foe. Just when the marines think they have the Iraqi’s worked out…those in the country who want to undermine peace find new and interesting ways to kill enmasse. Seriously check out the site…I am in no way pro Iraq war, and no way pro Bush….but the astounding numbers from both sides really bring it all home…so many wasted lives.
Don’t think so: Forty Miles From Baghdad – As they approach the outskirts of Saddam Hussein’s capital city, U.S. marines are making history. By marching almost 300 miles into Iraq, the Marine Corps – which, after all, is a sea service whose normal assignments include taking islands, seaports, and coastal cities – has made the deepest land penetration ever by its air-ground team of planes, helicopters, troops, and tanks. In the days leading up to April 4, the Marines’ 1st Division had surrounded and crushed one of the four Republican Guard divisions defending Baghdad, and marines were massing toward a confrontation with an already-weakened Al Nida Division. Evidence of the Corps’s success was visible on both sides of Route 6 as this correspondent traveled northwest along the Tigris River on April 3 to a spot just 40 miles short of Baghdad. Earlier that day, a Marine attack force had blown through the remaining defenders in the Republican Guard’s Baghdad Division. Burning vehicles and ab
