Victory disregarded...

The UK's Guardian manages to snatch a defeatist headline from the jaws of a true victory.  The arhabi threw everything that they had at the local Iraqi Security Forces in our sister Battalion's sector, in one of the largest coordinated attacks that we have seen since we got here.  They failed.  We had a few patrols nearby that jumped in just to help out, and they caught the bad guys with their pants down, big time.  Read the article.  LTC Funk is right.  I'm sure any reporter can find someone to complain after the shooting stops.  Once again, they also fail to report that a nearby mosque was used as the primary command and control center as well as weapons cache for the terrorists.  They even fired on our men from inside the mosque before trying to run away.  Our guys did great that morning.  So did the Iraqis.  The arhabi put together about the biggest operation that they could muster and got their butts kicked.  There were a few follow up IED's and such in our sector, but other than the tragic loss of Dup, things have quieted down again.  We remain on offense and our sister battalion has been pulling a lot of guys out of closets where they have hidden unsuccesfully hoping to fight another day.  I think their only fighting will be done in the chow hall of an Iraqi prison.  Here's another good one that only headlined for about 5 minutes.

Comments

[Rafi]

Dear Major K.

from London again,

A funeral from heartland Texas to show you how much people back in hometown USA care for the service you and your soldier buddies are giving in doing your duty and how proud and respectful they are of your service:

http://members.accessus.net/~tmcdonld/lighthse/Texas.htm

with best wishes and a safe tour of duty to you and those you hold dear.

[Rob]

The guardian article mentions grafitti that says "We'll be back".. Some one should find it and paint "We'll be waiting- Please hurry.."

Good lord.. The guardian doesn't even pretend any more.

[SGT Jeff (IRR)]

I was struck by LTC Funk's last remarks re: comparisons with Tet.

I had the same thought - and hoped that this did mean the beginning of the end for organized resistance.

[Derek S. Ford]

Great to hear Major. Keep kicking their asses.

[Chris]

My guess is that this writter for the Guardian also writes stories about Elvis and Alien sightings. There are those who choose to take stock in such tabloid journalism. The Insurgency tried and failed. End of story.

I'm also glad that this was nothing like Tet. Tet had traditionally been a time of truce during that war, that's why they were caught off guard. If I remember correctly, Tet was tens of thousands of highly trained and motivated soldiers attacking multiple targets at the same time. It went on for days and many people lost their lives in that one. I'm glad this wasn't another Tet.

Keep up the good work.
Take Care and God Bless.
God Speed.

[james968]

Iraq the Model also talks about the story. (You need to scroll down a lot to read his comments).

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/06/more-disgusting-bias-from-media.html

[Whiteswan]

Imagine the opposite.

Imagine that the US would have been at the place of the terrorists. That they were attacking the police station. Would it still be a victory? The same thing for Fallujah, etc.

Keep up the good work Major and take care.

Whiteswan

PS The Canadians are all against the war in Iraq?
Wrong! There are some for it and I am one of that group. "The Few, the Proud..."

[Jace]

I'm sure some terrorist commander saw the article and privately thought to himself "a couple more 'victories' like this and we'll all be dead"

[Don Singleton]

I dont understand why, because you obviously have trackbacks, but I got errors trying to trackback using two different methods. In any event http://donsingleton.blogspot.com/2005/07/victory-disregarded.html is my trackback

[ginny]

but we read about the victories....:-)

[Dan]

Thank you for these posts. It is refreshing to hear the truth.

---Dan

[Frank]

Id love to post eachothers links if your interested.