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The controversial war in Iraq started with the US-led invasion in March 2003. The main reason offered for the proposed war was that Iraq has nuclear capabilities and that the war would act as a means of disabling such capabilities – thus the war would protect the interests of the US and further afield by disarming them. Countries that were opposed to the war, such as members of the UN security council who did not back plans, suggested that such fears were not correct. Another reason given for the invasion of Iraq was that there was claims linking Iraq to al-Qaeda – so far there has been no evidence linking them together in anyway.

The invasion of Iraq was lead by a largely American force, with soldiers from Australia, Great Britain, Poland and Denmark also playing their role. In an attempt to restore peace in Iraq, the Co-coalition countries attempted to establish a democratic government. Such plans have not went as smoothly as was hoped, and on-going violence has continued despite there being troops and a democratically elected government in place.

Since the invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein fled the country in an attempt to avoid the consequences that would come as a result of being caught by the coalition troops. Despite his best attempts, Saddam was captured in December 2003 and was hanged in the same month the crimes he had committed whilst in office. His trial and subsequent hanging were all completed under the Iraq interim government.

The Iraq war has been controversial for a number of reasons:

1. The war was not legal and was completed without the backing of the United Nations. Some political commentators suggest this as a reason for wider international backlash out with the coalition countries that participated.

2. Not enough troops. The number of troops that were sent to Iraq, and that are now in Iraq, is less than half of what would be needed to allow for a swift operation which would lead to less casualties, according to a Rand report. Some objectors comment that this shows a lack of respect for human life and was done as a means of lessening the financial burden of the war.

3. Insufficient post-invasion strategy. The coalition governments did not adequately prepare an exit strategy and a means of bringing peace to Iraq according to many politicians and defence analysts.

4. Financial Burden. According to Reuters news agency, the cost of the Iraq war is close to $2 trillion.

5. Iraq’s oil supply has often been quoted as a reason for the start of the war. Such claims, if true, would be much different from the original reasons cited as the reason for the war happening in the first place.

6. Weapons of Mass Destruction have been been found in Iraq, which has made analysts increasingly sceptical as to whether they were there in the first place. If indeed they were not, then this would mean that the war was started on a false premise.

By: Nick Carter

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     The ready smile was gone from Iraqi Army Corporal Gassem Mohammed’s freckled face, replaced with an intensity of purpose.  Three of his fellow soldiers lined up behind him against the wall.  A voice bellowed from the catwalk above and the four men moved in unison inside a small room and squeezed the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles.  Gunfire echoed from the room only to be drowned by the gusting winds whipping over the Iraqi desert.  Mounted on the walls, two cardboard silhouettes are dotted with bullet holes.

     An American with a greying goatee and dark sunglasses walked briskly into the room.  Special Operations Advisor Rober Wise wore a camouflage shirt with the words “Army” over his right ****** pocket and “Contractor” over his left.  A native of Alabama, Wise has 20 years of Special Forces experience and he’s using it as a civilian instructor to mold these young Iraqi soldiers.  He looked at Mohammed and said in an even tone,   “You don’t stop there.  You make your way further into the room.”

     The stern look evaporated from Mohammed’s face, replaced by the face of an attentive student wanting to please his teacher.  It’s time to do the exercise again.

     The clock is ticking.  Not just on America and it’s allies, but on the Iraqi military as well.  Late last year the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was signed by Iraq and the U.S. and earlier this year the words were echoed by President Barack Obama.  The U.S. military will leave Iraq by the end of 2011.

     However, there is another major deadline looming.  U.S. and Coalition forces must be out of Iraq’s major urban centers by June 30, 2009.  In a matter of days, the Iraqi military must be ready to hold fast if a renewed insurgency and/or Al Qaeda attempts to take advantage of the military drawdown.

     The U.S. will not leave Iraq’s soldiers unprepared.  Aboard Al Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province, Marines, often with the help of contractors like Wise, are training segments of the Iraqi Army to stand on its own and protect its citizens.

     Recently members of the 1st Company, Commando Battalion of the 7th Iraqi Army Division found themselves face-to-face with U.S. Marines and following their every lead.  The American military uses teams for their training.  A Military Transition Team is known by it’s acronym MiTT.  Iraqi police are also trained by Police Transition Teams, or PTTs.  Iraqi border guards are trained by BTTs, Border Transition Teams.  There are even POETTs, Port-of-Entry Training Teams.

     Corporal Muhammed and his team were almost ready to repeat the room-clearing technique.  His commando battalion is training to capture or kill insurgents, room by room, at their new Close Quarters Battle Course just outside Al Asad.  It’s also known as a “shoot house.”  The course is a metal house without a roof.  Where a roof would be is a steel catwalk where Iraqi officers stare down at their men or bark orders.  Gradually, Robert Wise speaks less and less to the Iraqi soldiers.  He wants the Iraqi officers to pick up the instruction and lead their own men.  It’s all part of the process of leaving Iraq.  Hand over authority, hand over towns, hand over training, hand over cities, day by day, to the Iraqis.  The nation’s sovereignty is written on paper and respected by the U.S. military, but sovereignty also means the Iraqis must assume every facet of their country’s security.

     Close Quarters fighting can be intimidating to learn, much less perform. Marine Lt. Col. John Van Messel, team leader of MiTT 7, stood on the catwalk next to the Iraqi officers and watched.  “I’ll tell you it’s no different than young Marines going into a shoot house in the United States,” Van Messel explained.  “The first time they do live fire in close quarters there’s a bit of trepidation.”

     This is where Mohammed had to be corrected by the instructor.  He listened intently, nodding as the interpretor, or the “terp” as they’re called here, translated the instructor’s words from English to Arabic.

     Next, they lined up outside and ran into the room again.  This time, each of the four are in the proper formation: two men against one wall, two on another.  Bullets slam through the cardboard silhouettes and the wood behind them.  The shoot house’s thick, steel, exterior walls forbid the rounds from leaving the building.

     Wise and his interpretor tell the four they did a good job.  Mohammed and his men leave, quickly replaced by four more Iraqi commandos ready to fire their first bullets into a small room.

     On the catwalk, the Iraqi commanding officer, 1st Lt. Amir Mwafic, is satisfied with what he’s observed.  “This training improves the abilities of our soldiers,” he  said.  “We, as officers, are more confident with our soldiers after the training.”

     Outside the shoot house, Corporal Gassem Mohammed is more relaxed and his comfortable smile has returned.  “The Marines have increased our experience.” he said with a nod, “and we are becoming faster than before.”

     At the end of the day, the battalion of Iraqi Commandos march away from the shoot house, climb into the back of several waiting pickups, and drive off to their camp on the opposite side of the Al Asad Air Base.

     Tomorrow is another day of training and tomorrow doesn’t wait.  The June 30th deadline for these Iraqis to be on their own, without the U.S. military watching over their collective shoulders, also will not wait.  Ready or not, the date is fast approaching. 

 



By: Randy L. Garsee

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He’s BACK! And I doubt that the Soros team will be guilty of another ad saying that Patraues Betrays Us. That campaign went over like a lead balloon. But you can rest assured that the Senators running for president will get in as much “shine time” as they can. And they’ll be very careful to speak to the constituency that they think will be voting for them. What’s right just isn’t the issue right now. It’s called politics!

Gen. David Petraeus in congressional testimony Tuesday declined to establish a specific timetable for drawing down troop levels beyond July, the departure time for the last of the 30,000 extra troops sent to Iraq last year. And you know that’s not going to sit well with Hillary or Obama!

Petraeus, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told the Senate Armed Services Committee a 45-day pause in troop drawdowns after July would allow commanders to assess conditions in Iraq after the extra troops leave. After the 45 days, Petraeus said, commanders will continue to assess conditions in Iraq to see when they can withdraw more troops.

Come on David, it’s an election year. Give us some good news!

Bush has said he intended to accept Petraeus’ recommendation. On Thursday, the president will make a speech about the war, now in its sixth year, and his decision about troop levels. Bush knows this isn’t going to sit well with even many in his own party, much less the oppositions that’s now a majority!

Here’s a few of the Committee’s comments:

>Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee chairman, called Petraeus’ recommendation a “clear, open-ended pause.”

>Virginia Republican John Warner, a former chairman of the committee, interrupted Petraeus during a long answer about whether the war was making the U.S. safer. “My time on the clock is moving pretty quickly. Can you now, just in simple language, tell us, yes, it is worth it and it is making us safer here at home?”

>Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the committee, said the strategic purpose of increasing troops in Iraq had not worked. “We’re stuck where we started before the surge with 140,000 troops in Iraq and no end in sight. That in my view is unsustainable….and it is unacceptable to the American people.”

>Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican, was equally critical, saying that “simply appealing for more time to make progress is insufficient. We need a strategy that anticipates a political end game and employs every plausible means to achieve it.”

>Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, said the extra troops have reduced violence and prompted some political reconciliation. The political fortunes of McCain, a major supporter of Petraeus’ strategy.”We’re no longer staring into the abyss of defeat.”

>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, one of the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates, called a continuation of the Bush policies “irresponsible. The additional troopsvhave not provided security to allow Iraq’s government to bring the nation’s various factions together. Instead, the United States should begin an orderly process of removing troops from Iraq. I think it could be fair to say that it might well be irresponsible to continue the policy that has not produced the results that have been promised time and time again at such tremendous cost to our national security.”

>Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., used a line of questioning to show he believed U.S. forces were wrongly being drawn into sectarian fighting, rather than maintaining the fight only against Al Qaeda.

For now, Petraeus faces a dramatically different political landscape than last fall when support for the war had been eroding steadily among Republicans. Petraeus’ testimony helped shore up GOP defections at the time. And since then, a significant drop in violence has helped stave off legislation ordering troops home.

But all the while we’re creating more and more enemies.

For those who have lost loved ones in the war these such meetings are very difficult to hear.



By: Ernie Fitzpatrick

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SECNAV Delivers Message to Service Members in Iraq: Stay Focused

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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq -Going green on the deep blue seas, hi-tech weapons systems, and a message to finish the job in Iraq.  During his stopover aboard Al Asad Air Base in the Al Anbar Province this week, the secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), the Honorable Ray Mabus, talked about those subjects, as well as what impressed him most in his first trip outside the U.S. since becoming the Navy’s top civilian.

“The Marines and sailors: the confidence, the skill, the patriotism, the dedication, the devotion of the people that serve our country,” Mabus said.

The secretary wanted to see, first hand, the job Marines and sailors are doing today in Iraq. “I learn better when I see and experience than I do from a Power Point presentation at the Pentagon.  But I also wanted to let the Marines, sailors, soldiers here know how important their work is.”

The military is familiar territory for the former Mississippi governor.  He served as a surface warfare officer aboard the USS Little Rock (CG-4) from 1971-72.  He illustrated a major difference between his service then and the service now.

“When we went into port it was almost guaranteed that a whole bunch of folks would get in trouble, that there’d be arrests, that there’d be this, that there’d be that, there’d be a big captain’s mast when we left,” he explained.  “You could put a whole carrier strike group in today with five, six-thousand people and you won’t have a single incident.  Sailors, Marines see it as part of the mission now.  They are professional.”

Mabus was sworn into office two and a half months ago as the 75th secretary of the Navy.  He believes it’s important for the Navy and Marines to be global.

“We have 284 ships in the fleet right now and those 284 ships are far more capable than the almost 600 ships that we had in the 1980’s,” he said.  “But, at some point, quantity becomes quality and one ship can’t be two places at the same time.  So you’ve got to make sure that you have enough, that you have enough surface combatants, that you have enough amphibian transport for our Marines, that you have enough submarines, that you have enough of the type ships that you need to project the force that you need and to do all the missions that the country calls on the Navy to do.”

During his visit, he also addressed Congressional bill, H.R. 24, which proposes to change the name of his department to “The Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.”

“Whenever I’m asked that, I quote the Commandant of the Marine Corps, who says he’s got a lot of things on his plate and that’s not one of them,” Mabus said, “What I say is that regardless of what the name is, I want to be the secretary.”

And as secretary, he makes his priorities clear.  “Take care of the sailors and Marines who take care of us,” he said.  “Make sure they have, first, what they need to do their mission: the training, the equipment, the leadership.  Second, to make sure that we take care of them in terms of health care and education.  Third, make sure that we take care of their families while they’re deployed, because oftentimes the families have the harder job.”

Mabus also explained how the Navy needs to change some old ways of doing business.  “I think we need to drive the cost of our equipment down, ships and airplanes.  We can not afford any longer to have ever more exotic, ever more expensive, ever longer-to-get ships, for example, or we’re going to unilaterally disarm ourselves.  Next, I think we need to move away from petroleum as a source of energy for the Navy and the Marine Corps both ashore and afloat.  Petroleum, oil, comes from, sometimes, dangerous parts of the world and I don’t want our military strength to be dependent on that or those supplies could be interrupted.”

The secretary would like to see another hi-tech area expand under his leadership.  “I think we need to take a much more detailed look, and move faster, in terms of unmanned vehicles, whether in the air, on the ground or the sea, or under the sea.”

Mabus also has previous experience in the middle east.  He was ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Clinton administration.  His knowledge gave weight to the message he delivered to those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“The job that’s being done here in Iraq remains a critical job, remains a job that is demanding and exacting and that we have to stay focused on,” he said.  “One of the primary purposes of my trip was to tell Marines and sailors that the job they’re doing is not going unnoticed.  We’re proud of them.  Stay focused on this job until the very last Marine or sailor comes home.”



By: Randy L. Garsee

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Regardless of your original view of the invasion of Iraq – a just, moral and necessary war according to us paleo-knuckle dragging, tooth sucking, unibrow conservatives – one has to admit that it is over. Done. Finished. Iraq is more peaceful than a typical summer in Chicago, a year in the slums of Toronto, or 9 months in the less savoury parts of New York. More die in a Chicago summer-fest of violence than US soldiers perish in a 2 year period in Iraq. Time to pull out of the Obama-Messiah’s spiritual center ? [Blessed be Obama the prophet]. Or should we just say that we won in Iraq and that the Iraqi’s and indeed the Muslim world, are better off for that remarkable feat ? We already stated in June 08 that this war was over – it is now more obvious than ever. June 08 – it is over

It is a fact that Muslims who live in the West – though they might **** the idea – are better off than those who don’t. Iraq has a stable confederation, with a Western styled constitution which guarantees Islamic law and observance. It is a country with an educated workforce, oil, millions of entrepreneurs, a transparent legal system, and it is a society which is not degenerating into civil war, or partition – contrary to many and sundry geniuses who stated the opposite for 4 years. Iraq 2009 will be generations ahead of Iraq pre-2003 without American intervention, including the hundred’s of thousands of lives saved from the barbarity of a fascist regime – one which murdered 1 million Iraqi’s over 20 years, or 25 times the current kill rate per annum in Iraq.

Not a bad legacy.

The West has an ally in the worst region in the world. We have secured a military victory over Al Qaeda and the Islamic fascists killing over 70.000 terrorists. Islamic fascist elements will never recover from this defeat. We now have military bases in 2 countries bordering Iran. We control the Gulf. We can put pressure on other countries including the corrupt Saudi royal family, to reform. We can protect Israel. In short we now control and are allied with a central state, in a central region and we have sent a very clear message to the Islamic world. You want violence – you will get it.

So where are the media reports of celebration? Where are the myriad stories of Iraqi economic and social development? Where are the interviews with politicians from across Iraq on the progress being made there? Where is the detailed story of the Shia militia defeat and the marginalisation of the demagogue and religious zealot and political idiot Sadr? Where are the stories of the Iraqi diaspora returning to all regions of Iraq to invest, rebuild and renew? Where is the over-arching strategic discussion of having military bases in the heart of the Islamic world and the benefits derived therein?

No where to be found.

The Western media is corrupt. It is a group of elitist trained self-loathing left-ocratic boors. Every bomb, every death of an Iraqi or Westerner, was reported ad infinitum over 5 years. But the pacification of a country engaged in various civil wars – almost exclusively intra-Muslim – since 656 A.D. and which is now being policed by US soldiers without body armour and without headgear does not even get a passing mention in the so-called ‘independent media’. Independent? Ha ha. How absurd and how immature is the thought. It reminds one of the hagiographies which were developed by this same media about Herr Hitler, Nazism and the benefices and great appeal of Communism. Morons.

As one syndicated columnist wrote recently and quite well:

“Americans tend to forget that, in the Middle East, most political disagreements are settled with assassinations such as the murder of Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and, more recently, the killing of Benezir Bhutto in Pakistan. In Lebanon, the Syrians assassinated a whole raft of politicians whom they found irksome. Several efforts have been made to kill Hamid Karzi of Afghanistan. In Gaza, Fatah was forced out by Hamas at gunpoint. Having achieved zero cooperation for decades, world leaders keep insisting that the Israelis negotiate with Fatah, giving them land and lollypops.”

Negotiating with the Arabs and with the fascistic elements of Islam is a waste of time. You simply wage war and kill them. You secure the lands, build bases, and impose your will. Historically that is what Islam and Arab culture understand – blood and steel and power.

This is why Iraq is such a momumental victory. It sends a very clear and compelling message.

For those who have been to Iraq, the war is obviously finished. Arabs killing innocents has been going on since the family of Muhammed were slaughtered by rivals claiming power over the early caliphates. Asking Muslims and Arabs to stop killing each other, or anyone else, is like asking Blacks to acknowledge Black slave trading and ownership. It will never happen. And yet that is the fault of the Americans or more specifically Bushitler.

Michael Yon, an embedded journalist wrote this in July 2008 in a syndicated column:

“’The war in Iraq is over. We won. Which means the Iraqi people won.’ When I wrote this on my Web site a few days ago, I set off a mini-firestorm. Perhaps because I have spent more time embedded with combat troops in Iraq than any journalist I know – and have interviewed countless Iraqis and members of the coalition military……

So I will be very clear what I mean when I say we have won the war. A counterinsurgency is won when the government’s legitimacy is no longer threatened by the insurgents, the government is able to protect its own people and the people are participating in the government. In Iraq, all three conditions apply.”

Indeed they do. That piece was written 6 months ago – and things have gotten a lot better since then. If Yon can write in July 2008 that the war is finished – a war he saw, smelled and felt – than 6 months later we should be having a general discussion of post-victory Iraq. What do we want there? What are the conditions we will give to the Iraqis and their politicians for our victory? How will the Iraqis help us repay the costs of the war through future oil revenues ? After all 4200 American dead, and 29000 American wounded were sacrificed in part, and only in part, to secure the freedom of Iraq.

In any event we won in Iraq – but the bells will never be rung. That says a lot about the state of the so-called ‘West’.



By: C. Read

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Coming out of the Easter weekend, will we learn anything from what Jesus tried to convey to us? How many times did Jesus, who became the Christ, tell us to love our enemies, turn the other cheek, and not become embroiled in violence? But who believes that because much of the church preaches a blood-thirsty God who demanded the death of His son. So, thing it not strange that sometime this week we’ll be reminded on the senseless killings when the American death toll of American lives reaches 4,000 in Iraq!

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32 dead in Virginia and the world is in uproar. It makes front page headline news in all the international media for 5 days. heads of state and foreign ministers send condolences, candlelight vigils, mass rallies, cries for change, harrowing eye witness accounts, video footage, reports , documentaries, analysis……all of the world’s press descends on Virginia Tech….

100 people a day are massacred in Iraq… hardly anyone notices….just another by-topic to include somewhere in the news broadcast…. just this week 178 people were blown to bits in car bombs in Iraq… where are the candle lit vigils for those people? where are the outpouring of grief? where are the letters of condolences from heads of state? where are all the voices calling for change and something to be done?

Ofcourse, the massacre in Virginia and the massacres in Iraq have one thing in common, they were both caused by a crazed, deranged individual…….in one case it’s a student, in the other it’s a president!

The real irony is that apart from the obligatory increase in flags that Americans resort to when they’ve “been had”, there’s almost no serious steps being taken to insure that a “mini-Iraq” doesn’t happen again in the states. Americans are still wondering how it could have happened….! as if it doesn’t happen every other month! the only real talk of taking action, is directed at stopping deranged nuts before they start going Rambo, just another f****d up misfit from the Americana/holywood/media/mtv pop culture delusion where everyone is supposed to be white, good looking, rich and successful. Those who fail to fit into this distorted category and aren’t pretty enough or rich enough view themselves as worthless or find themselves being outcasts ….which leads to head cases like Mr.Cho Seung.

As if the fact that 200 million guns amongst the populace wasn’t a valid reason……nah, it’s the fault of a crazed lunatic….he did it, not the guns…..can you then please explain to me how that very same crazed lunatic could have killed 32 people if he was armed only with a kitchen knife?

Watching these events unfold in the states is more than pathetic, it’s quite sickening. what valid reason can there be for American people to be the most heavily armed population in all of human history? What argument for gun ownership can possibly out weight the consequences for it? the countless massacres and gun related deaths?

Not content with keeping their violent murder culture to themselves, Americans are now exporting violence wholesale to the world….Iraq is currently the unlucky recipient, but it’s coming soon to a country near you…..

Wake up people, Virgina x3 is happening everyday in Baghdad……



By: syriapath

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Last week my friend Anthony was in the middle of his leave from the Marines before he went back for his third tour in Iraq. One night he was out partying with some friends in a major American city, sucking-up as much freedom as he could before he’d have to face the daily fear, gunshots and the constant possibility of death. It was about midnight as he was walking back to his car, when out of the darkness; three young men appeared and stuck guns in his face, demanding money.

Anthony did what he thought was the best move for that particular moment and gave them all of his money—ONE DOLLAR. Thankfully, they left without harming him. Anthony called the police, made a police report and went home shaking his head. Anthony’s a very accepting fellow, and after the fact, you didn’t hear him complain much—but he had to be surprised that so close to his home, he risked death by violence.

The fact of the matter is many of our urban centers and in some cases our rural areas are getting to be quite fearful and in some cases, out of control. Not only the traditional “bad areas” but also larger areas are now dangerous. And of course, we are a mobile society, which means a bad neighborhood is just a short drive away—as short as a half-hour.

So, what did Anthony do wrong? Nothing wrong, but the shame of the matter is that with violent crime rising in many areas across the country, we really should make an extra effort to be aware of our surroundings—those areas we’re apt to visit one day.

Here are good ways to be aware of your general surroundings:

· Read local newspapers, keeping your attention on local incidents and their locations.

· Watch local news keeping your attention focused on where crime is occurring. Bad news is good news, by that I mean media outlets definitely pick up on those incidents which in turn, certainly can inform “aware” men and women.

· Have a tiny bit of your daily consciousness focused on areas of possible danger that friends, coworkers or passerby’s may be talking about or simply mentioning.

It’s certainly a shame that our country has many areas where a man or woman can come as close to death as in a war zone. The real shame is that it is happening too often and in too many areas. Until crime stays on a continuous downward trend as we enjoyed for decades in America, we should consider being extra aware of where we are at, where we are going, and where we might end up one day. It’s a small, easy price to pay to be able to live, love and experience another day.



By: steve kovacs

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US Navy SEALs are well known for being elite. US Nay SEALs have long being known for having to pass training requirements which would be considered literally impossible for any normal human being. Having to swim 50 meters under water is among many of the requirements that the US Nay SEALs ask of their soldiers. The peak physical of conditions of soldiers is not all they have going for them; they also have a unique loyalty to each other which can be best described by a recent event in Iraq. A grenade was thrown into a building with 3 soldiers, one of those soldiers, knowing he would not have enough time to remove the grenade from the building, jumped upon the grenade resulting in his own death in an attempt to save the other soldiers in the same building. Such admirable behavior and their success in small people, large impact missions help to create the ethos which surrounds the US Navy SEALs and make them worthy of so much respect.

One of the US Navy SEALs core competencies is being particularly skilled in close combat situations, which makes their input in Iraq particularly import when covert attacks with close by civilians form a large part of the duties which are needed. As a result of that US Navy SEALs have also been training other parts of the military in Iraq, making their role very important indeed.

The much controversial move by the US military to stop the flow of oil from Iraq was done thanks to the US Navy SEALs who completed the task with the precision and skill that we have come to except. Although people may raise claims of ulterior motives on behalf of the government, one cannot say that a task like this does not have significant benefits in the form of depleting infrastructure and therefore decreasing the morale and economic capabilities of the resistance. Such tasks are naturally assumed to be undertaken by the military when they invade a country, and it is often a task that falls on the US Navy SEALs, with past examples of destroying travel links in the forms of bridges and tunnels to make covert movement harder for those that wish to stand in the way of the US military.

Their role in Iraq, as expected, has been immense. So much so that they are used in the most mission critical strategic operations because of the skills, commitment and ability to perform that has earned them the respect of everyone in the field. More Navy SEALs have recently been called to Iraq because their being there is so important, and even ex Navy SEALs are in Iraq working for private security consultants that are sub-contracted by the military to help in situations which require highly skilled ex military personnel. Whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world; when you need a military operation done correctly you can always count on the US Navy SEALs to get the job done right.



By: James Kara Murat

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