Posts by DakotaRed

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TERRORISTS THANK AMERICAN PROTESTERS

by DakotaRed in

terrorists thank american protesters

by: benedict arnett with special arrangement of al jerksrah news service.

wednesday 02 april 2003

DakotaRed

You mean like your stupid fictional post in the current affairs forum?

Prove it's fictional. Otherwise, shut your trap.

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TERRORISTS THANK AMERICAN PROTESTERS

by DakotaRed in

terrorists thank american protesters

by: benedict arnett with special arrangement of al jerksrah news service.

wednesday 02 april 2003

DakotaRed

Dakota, why lie? It doesn't make your 'case' any stronger. I disagree with your exrapolation of the General statements, on any number of different levels.

Abbadon, instead of hiding your fallacy in innuendos and feeble attempts at eloquent speech, why not put aside your own intellectual laziness and research the words of General Giap and show where he did not make that claim? A claim from the man who was the architect of the US defeat is hardly a general statement.

Read them for yourself then come back and show where it was made up or lies. Or, does that require effort that make result in your actually having to think?

As to the article I posted, if you go back you will see I posted a link to a site that shows the SNL skit with De Niro using some of the names I used in the made up article. Did I realize it was a satire? ROFLMAO! Hell, boy, I wrote it!

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An Elite Athlete

by DakotaRed in

an elite athlete

by tom demerly .

it is dark and mike smith's clothing is wet.

DakotaRed

Lucy, yes, I did serve in Vietnam with C Troop 7/17 th Air Cav. From mid 1969 to the very first day of 1971. My involvement here currently is very limited. The granting of free reign to a few posters to insult and ridicule others plus the intellectual laziness and dishonesty of others is more than I wish to associate with.

Outnfree, I received it in email, but the authors name is affixed to the top of it.

HS, real men don’t exactly love war, but see the need for it on occasion. We remain free due to extraordinary efforts of scared men and now women too, fighting to maintain that freedom and to give it to others.

Trauma Hound

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An Elite Athlete

by DakotaRed in

an elite athlete

by tom demerly .

it is dark and mike smith's clothing is wet.

DakotaRed

An Elite Athlete

By Tom Demerly

It is dark and Mike Smith's clothing is wet.

Mike Smith is an athlete, an elite athlete in fact. He is a triathlete, has
done Ironman several times, a couple adventure races and even run the
Marathon Des Sables in Morocco- a 152 mile running race through the
Sahara done in stages.

Mike has some college, is gifted in foreign languages, reads a lot and
has an amazing memory for details. He enjoys travel. He is a quiet guy but
avery good athlete. Mike's friends say he has a natural toughness. He
can't spend as much time training for triathlons as he'd like to because
his job keeps him busy. Especially now. This is Mike's busy season. But
he still seems very fit. Even without much training Mike has managed
some impressive performances in endurance events.

It's a big night for Mike. He's at work tonight. As I mentioned his clothing is wet, partially from dew, partially from perspiration. He and his four coworkers, Dan, Larry, Pete and Maurice are working on a rooftop at the corner of Jamia St. and Khulafa St. across from Omar Bin Yasir.

Mike is looking through the viewfinder of a British made Pilkington LF25
laser designator. The crosshairs are centered on a ventilation shaft. The
shaft is on the roof of The Republican Guard Palace in downtown
Baghdad across the Tigris River.

Saddam Hussein is inside, seven floors below, three floors below ground
level, attending a crisis meeting.

Mike's coworker Pete (also an Ironman finisher, Lake Placid, 2000) keys
some information into a small laptop computer and hits "burst transmit."
The DMDG (Digital Message Device Group) uplinks data to another of
Mike's coworkers (this time a man he's never met, but they both work for
their Uncle, "Sam") and a fellow athlete, at 21'500 feet above Iraq 15 miles from downtown Baghdad. This man's office is the cockpit of an F-117
stealth fighter. When Mike and Pete's signal is received the man in the
airplane leaves his orbit outside Baghdad, turns left, and heads
downtown.

Mike has 40 seconds to complete his work for tonight, and then he can go
for a run.

Mike squeezes the trigger of his LF25 and a dot appears on the ventilator
shaft five city blocks and across the river away from him and his
coworkers. Mike speaks softly into his microphone; "Target illuminated.
Danger close. Danger Close. Danger close. Over."

Seconds later two GBU-24B two thousand pound laser guided, hardened
case, delayed fuse "bunker buster" bombs fall free from the F-117. The
bombs enter "the funnel" and begin finding their way to the tiny dot
projected by Mike's LF25. They glide approximately three miles across the
ground and fall four miles on the way to the spot marked by Mike and his
friends.

When they reach the ventilator shaft marked by Mike and his friends the
two bunker busters enter the roof in a puff of dust and debris. They plow
through the first four floors of the building like a two-ton steel telephone pole traveling over 400 m.p.h., tossing desks, ceiling tiles, computers and chairs out the shattering windows. Then they hit the six-foot thick reinforced concrete roof of the bunker. They burrow four more feet and detonate.

The shock wave is transparent but reverberates through the ground to the
river where a Doppler wave appears on the surface of the Tigris. When the
seismic shock reaches the building Mike is on he levitates an inch off the
roof from the concussion.

Then the sound hits. The two explosions are like a simultaneous crack of
thunder as the building's walls seem to swell momentarily, then burst
apart on an expanding fireball that slowly, eerily, boils above Baghdad
casting rotating shadows as the fire climbs into the night. Debris begins
to rain; structural steel, chunks of concrete, shards of glass, flaming
fabrics and papers.

On the tail of the two laser guided bombs a procession of
BGM-109G/TLAM Block IV Enhanced Tomahawks begin their terminal
plunge. The laser-guided bombs performed the incision, the GPS and
computer guided TLAM Tomahawks complete the operation. In rapid-fire
succession the missiles find their mark and riddle the Palace with
massive explosions, finishing the job. The earth heaves in a final death
convulsion.

Mike's job is done for tonight. Now all he has to do is get home.

Mike and his friends drive an old Mercedes through the streets of
Baghdad as the sirens start. They take Jamia to Al Kut, cross Al Kut and
go right (South) on the Expressway out of town. An unsuspecting remote
CNN camera mounted on the balcony of the Al Rashid Hotel picks up their
vehicle headed out of town. Viewers at home wonder what a car is doing
on the street during the beginning of a war. They don't know it is packed
with five members of the U.S. Army's SFOD-D, Special Forces Operational
Detachment - Delta.

Six miles out of town they park their Mercedes on the shoulder, pull their
gear out of the trunk and begin to run into the desert night. The moon is
nearly full. Instinctively they fan out, on line, in a "lazy 'W' ." They run five miles at a brisk pace, good training for this evening, especially with 27 lb. packs on their back. Behind them there is fire on the horizon. Mike and his fellow athletes have a meeting to catch, and they can't be late.

Twenty-seven miles out a huge gray 92 foot long insect hurtles 40 feet
above the desert at 140 mph The MH-53J Pave Low III is piloted by
another athlete, also a triathlete, named Jim, from Fort Campbell,
Kentucky. He is flying to meet Mike.

After running five miles into the desert Mike uses his GPS to confirm his
position. He is in the right place at the right time. He removes an
infrared strobe light from his pack and pushes the red button on the
bottom of it. It blinks invisibly in the dark. He and his friends form a wide 360 degree circle while waiting for their ride home.

Two miles out Jim in the Pave Low sees Mike's strobe through his night
vision goggles. He gently moves the control stick and pulls back on the
collective to line up on Mike's infrared strobe. Mike's ride home is here.

The big Pave Low helicopter flares for landing over the desert and quickly
touches down in a swirling tempest of dust. Mike and his friends run up
the ramp after their identity is confirmed. Mike counts them up the ramp of the helicopter over the scream of the engines. When he shows the crew
chief five fingers the helicopter lifts off and the ramp comes up. The dark gray Pave Low spins in its own length and picks up speed going back the
way it came, changing course slightly to avoid detection.

The men and women in our armed forces, especially Special Operations,
are often well trained, gifted athletes. All of them, including Mike, would
rather be sleeping the night away in anticipation of a long training ride
rather than laying on a damp roof in an unfriendly neighborhood guiding
bombs to their mark or doing other things we'll never hear about.
Regardless of your opinions about the war, the sacrifices these people
are making and the risks they are taking are extraordinary. They believe
they are making them on our behalf. Their skills, daring and
accomplishments almost always go unspoken. They are truly Elite
Athletes.

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TERRORISTS THANK AMERICAN PROTESTERS

by DakotaRed in

terrorists thank american protesters

by: benedict arnett with special arrangement of al jerksrah news service.

wednesday 02 april 2003

DakotaRed

However, the funniest thing of all is given old Dakota's obsession with how protesters are responsible for wars going on longer,

No, the funniest is your absolute refusal to listen to or heed the very words of the Commanding General of the North Vietnamese Army and why he decided not to surrender, but held out for another 5 years. Talk about head burial.

I actually think he believed the article when he posted it, although I doubt very much whether he'll own up to it.

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TERRORISTS THANK AMERICAN PROTESTERS

by DakotaRed in

terrorists thank american protesters

by: benedict arnett with special arrangement of al jerksrah news service.

wednesday 02 april 2003

DakotaRed

TERRORISTS THANK AMERICAN PROTESTERS

By: Benedict Arnett with special arrangement of Al Jerksrah news service.

Wednesday 02 April 2003

Through a series of interviews, this reporter has learned that terrorist standing by inside Iraq, by special by invitation of President Saddam Hushame, have expressed their appreciation to anti-war critics throughout America and the rest of the world. The common theme seems to be that without the help of anti-war critics, no one would appreciate the critical and loving work of the suicide bombers.

Ukin Kiza Miaz, senior lieutenant in the Iraqi military and who claims credit for teaching his men how to raise a white flag and hide weapons behind it said, “Allah smiles on us as we see infidels supporting us.” He also said he wishes he could personally thank each and every one of those who disrupt the decadent life of Americans, but fears the executions of these infidels will proceed faster than he can shake their hands.

A self professed suicide bomber, I Bin Farteen, perpetrator of several silent but deadly attacks against American interests worldwide, chimed in with, “Allah is good. It is American dynamite we strap to our bodies to blow the infidels up.” He further claimed that he received much of this dynamite from French sources. He also added, “these foolish Americans fight for us and we will kill them all. Allah has blinded them for us and we will be victorious.”

Two brothers, recently arrived through Syria, U Leeka Madiq and U Wanna Madiq, both agreed that the American protests were instrumental in their flocking to Iraq to finish off the failed military invasion. Both have said they have a personal contact in Seattle, Washington, code named, “Charlie,” that steers them in their direction and keeps them informed of current events through their laptop computers. U Leeka said, “I would love to meet the dog, but when were finished here, we will finish him off too.”

I Bin Farteen said that gas attacks are not ruled out in the current war and he will personally release as much gas as he can muster against the invading dogs. Miaz said that several white flags have been prepared as well as vehicles filled with women and children all prepared to die for Allah and Saddam Hushame. The Madiq brothers didn’t have much to add as they were both busy preparing for an invasion of the local penal colony.

Mizlit Iz Hari, the only female to talk to me, said she took part in some protests inside America, but gave up her $75,000 a year job, left her decadent dog of an American husband in Detroit and returned to the land of camel dung to help force the women there to stay in their assigned places. “After we defeat and kill all these American dogs, we will take over their country and make it just like our beautiful Iraq,” she chimed in. “Allah says we are to fight for our men and submit to them, “ she added, “and all women will follow us, or die. Allah is with us and arms us with weapons to kill the infidels.”

When anti-Saddam Iraqi rebels were seen approaching from the south, all were heard to mutter, "Holy Shiite."

This reporter will be returning to America tomorrow and will lead a protest march down the streets of Columbia University along with Assistant Professor, Nicholas De Genova and join him in his wishes for “a million Mogadishus.”

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YELLOW RIBBON : Show your support!

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a lot of us can have different opinions about going war... some can support it... other can protest it... and thats what freedom of speech is all about.

but there's a threshold and we're past that threshold... we're at war.

so no matter what your opinions were before or even now no one can change the fact that we are at war and that won't change no matter how much those that oppose it try.

DakotaRed

I was simply going off your past posts where I get the opinion that you think anyone who does not support the war is ungrateful and dismissive of the bravery and sacrifice.

Then you missed the many posts where I said to Realist that he need not be sorry for saying he does not support the troops, that at least he is honest. Or where I have said often that protesters have every right to protest and I support that right, hell, I fought for them to have that right. I only ask that they do it within the law and not destroy private property or block people trying to get to work or whatever. Go back to the beginning of this thread and see what I said to Robyn. Am I ticked about this? Yes. I spilled my blood and sweat and saw friends die and came back and got spit on and ridiculed and called a baby killer. My best friend was shot down and for 33 years, I had no idea if he was alive or not, until last year. And still, I support their right to protest, but not to interfere in others lives and spit on returning veterans. Then, I am accused of being insulting after many times being told to "bite me," being called a war-monger, idiot, moron and whatever the catch word from Trauma Hound is. Many of us have endured many insults and snide remarks from Trauma Hound and nothing was said. He can post half a dozen flags desecrated with the peace sign and you get on me for posting one with the American flag and a V. But, what amazes me the most is how that particular flag is so waved, yet, they hide behind the regular flag for their rights and freedoms. You want to stop all mentions of the war, go right ahead. But don't be surprised if one keeps it up and cries he has rights.

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YELLOW RIBBON : Show your support!

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a lot of us can have different opinions about going war... some can support it... other can protest it... and thats what freedom of speech is all about.

but there's a threshold and we're past that threshold... we're at war.

so no matter what your opinions were before or even now no one can change the fact that we are at war and that won't change no matter how much those that oppose it try.

DakotaRed

Can't you post without being insulting?

Jeeez, Simon. I say they are fighting for some thankless people, just as I did in Vietnam and I'm issuing an insult? Yet, I lost count of how many times me and others have been told by a certain someone to "bite me," called idiots, morons, warmongers and you name it and the strongest thing said to date was, "could you tone it down?"

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Iraq Parades dead US soldiers

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i've just seen the al-jazeera footage.

its truly shocking.

there were about 6-7 us soldiers.

DakotaRed

Desecrating the American Flag with what we in Vietnam referred to as the footprint of the American chicken, Charlie? How gauche.

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YELLOW RIBBON : Show your support!

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a lot of us can have different opinions about going war... some can support it... other can protest it... and thats what freedom of speech is all about.

but there's a threshold and we're past that threshold... we're at war.

so no matter what your opinions were before or even now no one can change the fact that we are at war and that won't change no matter how much those that oppose it try.

DakotaRed

Support our men and women in uniform and away once again, fighting for some thankless people.

May they all return to their loved one safe and sound (sentiments extended also to those from the UK and Australia)