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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (14718)11/11/2005 8:25:04 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Stars and Stripes has a good summary

By jkelly
Irish Pennants

of what's been going on the past couple of days in Operation Steel Curtain, being conducted in and around Husabayh, where I was embedded with Tiger Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in May of 2003.

The story concludes with two paragraphs you probably will never read in an AP dispatch:

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Capt. Brian Gilbertson of Wisconsin was one of many Marines who believed that the enemy fled after seeing the number of troops here and the fierce assault the U.S. forces were prepared to mount.

“Word definitely got around: If you are going to shoot at the Marines, its going to be the last day of your life,” he said.
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