California Conservative

The military is an accomplishment-oriented organization. They’re good at taking orders but they aren’t good at taking criticism lying down. Drudge has posted an email from PatDollard.com. To say that this Marine isn’t happy with Democrats is understatement of extraordinary proportions.

Today, from Corporal Tyler Rock in an outpost in downtown Ramadi. His first sentence is in response to an email from me:

“yeah i know how you feel. its going to be very weird leaving this place and going back to america. weve been here for almost an entire year and have lived in the center of it the whole time. its crazy that when we got here it was so hectic and now its calmed down so much. so it was awesome to be able to see that turn out.

yeah news worth reporting…. well ramadi was once dubbed by everyone as the worst city in the world. but we have done such a great job here that all the families in the area have worked with us on driving out the insurgency and that we work directly with the IA and the IP’s. the city has been cleaned up so well that the IP’s do most of the patrols now and we go out with them to hand out candy and toys to the children. you can tell that the people want us here to protect them from the thugs and gangs (insurgents). granted they would rather have peace and quit but they know that if we arent here they will be thrown around by the insurgents. a good example is this one mission we did. long story short we got blown up in multiple buildings and had to run into a families house. i spent my christmas holidays covered in ash from the mortar fire and the IED’s, sleeping under a dirty rug i found in the house. everyone was sleeping way to close for comfort just to stay warm. anyways. a family was there and they obviously didnt want us there. atleast at first. the daughters were very sick so our corpsman treated them. they didnt have electricity so we got them a generator for power, they were cold so we got them gas heaters, we got them food and water and then we gave them $500. by the end of the week long visit with them we were drinking tea with them. when we left we cleaned their house better than it was when we got there. i even have pictures with the family. they told us that they liked marines and they would help us as much as they could and they gave us some information on the insurgents in the area. we ended up catching a HUGE target down the road from there house because of it.

Part Of A Weapons Cache Seized Recently In Fields Next To What Used To Be An Insurgent Claimed Hospital. Thanks To 1/6, The Insurgents Don’t Claim It Anymore. Zarqawi Had Reportedly Been Treated There.

yeah and i got a qoute for that douche harry reid. these families need us here. obviously he has never been in iraq. or at least the area worth seeing. the parts where insurgency is rampant and the buildings are blown to pieces. we need to stay here and help rebuild. if iraq didnt want us here then why do we have IP’s voluntering everyday to rebuild their cities. and working directly with us too. same with the IA’s. it sucks that iraqi’s have more patriotism for a country that has turned to complete shit more than the people in america who drink starbucks everyday. we could leave this place and say we are sorry to the terrorists. and then we could wait for 3,000 more american civilians to die before we say “hey thats not nice” again. and the sad thing is after we WIN this war. people like him will say he was there for us the whole time.
and for messages back home. i have a wife back home who is going through a tough time. i just cant wait to be back home and see everyone. haha and i cant wait to go back home and get some starbucks. i love it when those people serve me. hahaha”

I hope that Sen. Reid takes the time to read this and rethink his position on not funding the troops. He says that the war is lost but Corporal Rock vehemently disagrees. If given the choice between trusting a political hack like Harry Reid or trusting a soldier deployed in a formerly nasty neighborhood like Ramadi, I’ll trust the soldier every day of the week & twice on Sundays. And it wouldn’t even be close.

Reid, Pelosi, Murtha and the other Democratic defeatists deserve to be told that they’re wrong. The defeatists need to be told that it’s them that need to change course. They need to be told that they must support victory in Iraq, that they can’t keep caving to the wishes of the anti-war activists in MoveCongress.org.

It’s time that the military told the Democrats that they’re wrong and they need to listen to the military, not some foul-mouthed pacifist from the counterculture crowd of the 70’s.

Technorati Tags: Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Quagmire, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, MoveCongress.org, Code Pink, Counterculture, Marines, Military, Victory Caucus

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Iraq, Liberals, Military, Pelosi, Terrorism, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.