Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician and Toxicologist.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have been reading in the Oregonian Newspaper the McClatchy Newspaper articles about the American soldiers who want to live and go home, versus the Iraq and Afghanistan terrorists who want to die and go to their heaven with 40 virgins (after they are dead?)
I'm going to express my disdain and contempt for the American Pentagon swivel chair waffle butts writing this stuff because they have no concept of what it is to be a frontline soldier in about th worst type of war we've ever been in.
I'm going to start with a few scenarios of what I know of World War Two. We're on the front lines in a static, non-moving situation. It could have been Aacheny, the first German city captured by us. The Germans had many snipers killing and maiming many of our guys. We were finally able to shoot at muzzle flashes and destroy all but two tenacious and deadly snipers.
One of our guys finally said "I'm going to circle around back and get one of those guys"!
Some dogface Infantrymen are a bit more "crazy" than most. He got back in a couple hours with a captured sniper! Our boys wanted to know where the other sniper was. What do you think our guys were going to do now- play patty cake.
When our paratroopers landed in France, some were caught in the trees. If they were high the krauts shot them, if they were low they cut off their genitals. Our paratroopers had a response to this.
The krauts captured several dozen Canadian & British soldiers and put them in a jail in Caen, Normandie. When it became evident that the British were taking Caen, the krauts took them out in the yardc and machine gunned them. What was the Canadian's response?
When our guys came upon the Concentration/death camps and saw what the well fed kraut guards had done to their prisoners, they lined them up and shot them.
The Oregonian article says our boys humiliated their prisoners! They were also trying to get information from them. This is not a patty cake situation. Obviously, yes obviously, information from these guys saved many American lives or they wouldn't do it.
I weep no tears for these terrorists who WANT TO DIE. One of these human bombs can kill dozens of our boys and Iraqi citizens.
These prisoners are getting good Arab food, beds, showers, etc. They obviously won't give up the "bad guys". If they did, we wouldn't have to keep tehm and maintain Gitmo.
We know several of those released have gone back to their terrorist ways. Why should we release any tell things quiet down in Iraq, etc?
Fifty terrorists not worth the life of one American soldier. Hoorah for the Infantry.
(Editor's, note: Dr. Leveques' opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinion or political position of Salem-News.com)
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