Just a little disclaimer: The language below is a bit graphic;
just keep in mind it IS from a Marine not CNN.
>
>
> From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan
>
> It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and
> shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir
> River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake
> out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.
>
> I also glance at the area around my *** every ten to fifteen seconds to
> avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the
> chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle
> prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid
> but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
>
> The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they
> are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water.
> That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me
> comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and
> storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the
> coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where
> to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and
> record the new movement.
>
> It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet.
> These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days
> away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to
> begin.
>
> I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot
> on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel
> plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I'm a
> romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows,
> man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no
> infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit
> **** hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs
> here like we know jobs.
>
> Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the
> opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I
> forgot, you can also live in a re***ee camp and eat plum-sweetened,
> crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if
> that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities
> of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to
> cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
>
> I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a
> couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can
> say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns.
> They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no
> respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for
> themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo
> with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human
> cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage,
> heartless beasts who feed on each others barbarism. Cavemen with AK47's.
> Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
>
> I'm freezing my *** off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is
> running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a
> few hours.
>
> Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor. Write a
> letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering,
> pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not
> smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are
> looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and
> hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when
> confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create
> nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real
> smart.
>
> They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very
> good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be
> products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic
> lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of
> life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he
> just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
>
> OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole.
> Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm good at
> it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets
> and move on with your lives.
>
> The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter
> bull**** and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued
> to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control.
> The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what
> we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and,
> really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing
> what you sent us here to do.
>
> You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .
>
> Saucy Jack
>
> Recon Marine in Afghanistan
> Semper Fi
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
just keep in mind it IS from a Marine not CNN.
>
>
> From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan
>
> It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and
> shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir
> River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake
> out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.
>
> I also glance at the area around my *** every ten to fifteen seconds to
> avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the
> chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle
> prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid
> but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack.
>
> The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they
> are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water.
> That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me
> comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and
> storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the
> coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where
> to drop the hardware, we bash some heads for a while, then I track and
> record the new movement.
>
> It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet.
> These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days
> away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to
> begin.
>
> I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot
> on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel
> plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me. I'm a
> romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows,
> man. It's not even a country. There are no roads, there's no
> infrastructure, there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock pit
> **** hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs
> here like we know jobs.
>
> Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the
> opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I
> forgot, you can also live in a re***ee camp and eat plum-sweetened,
> crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if
> that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities
> of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to
> cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.
>
> I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a
> couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can
> say for sure: These guys, all of 'em, are Huns. Actual, living Huns.
> They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no
> respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for
> themselves. They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo
> with dead calves and force their five-year-old sons into human
> cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage,
> heartless beasts who feed on each others barbarism. Cavemen with AK47's.
> Then again, maybe I'm just cranky.
>
> I'm freezing my *** off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is
> running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a
> few hours.
>
> Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor. Write a
> letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering,
> pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not
> smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are
> looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and
> hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when
> confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create
> nothing and destroy everything else. Smart. Pfft. Yeah, they're real
> smart.
>
> They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very
> good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be
> products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic
> lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of
> life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he
> just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.
>
> OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole.
> Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm good at
> it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets
> and move on with your lives.
>
> The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter
> bull**** and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued
> to the screen through the commercials. We've got this one under control.
> The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what
> we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and,
> really, you don't want to know. We are your military and we are doing
> what you sent us here to do.
>
> You wanna help? Buy Bonds America .
>
> Saucy Jack
>
> Recon Marine in Afghanistan
> Semper Fi
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
