Everywhere I look, I see swiftboats . . .

[beachmom]

First this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2090212

“We have out CIA consultants and Clinton has his. It’s kind of a ‘he said, she said’ situation right now,” Cunningham said.

Anyone else getting a sick feeling of deja vu? BLM is right. Clinton is just as powerless to stop the GOP controlled media as Kerry was (and actually, Kerry was able to stop Sinclair). It's time we end the myth that "Kerry didn't fight back". The truth was he did, but was not successful, just like, at this point, Bill Clinton today.

Second article:

And, now real boats going to Iraq in March 2007. I gave you guys a story about this some months ago, but they had a follow up, and it's just chilling to see history repeat itself yet again. Of course, since the Navy is taking over boating patrols on the Euphrates, that frees up more of the Marines and soldiers to do the driving patrols on land.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=110725&ran=165449

Sailors take to river for training they need to battle Iraqi insurgents

By LOUIS HANSEN, The Virginian-Pilot
© September 9, 2006

ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. - There wasn't a drop of blue water for miles, as the Cape Fear River ran coffee-colored and swift.

And on Friday afternoon, it was owned by the Navy.

Using borrowed boats, tactics and trainers, Riverine Squadron One went through a final stretch of river patrol exercises deep in the North Carolina swamps.

The squadron, based at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, was one step closer to combat and months from giving the Navy a shallow water presence in Iraq.

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The sailors expect to deploy to Iraq in March. The Navy's first large-scale, active-duty brown water mission since the Vietnam War more than 30 years ago will assume a mission patrolling the Euphrates River in a 60-mile stretch north and south of Baghdad.

Combat veteran Marines are training the sailors for ambushes, mortar fire and the various ruses insurgents test on the Marines' river patrol boats.

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Marine Staff Sgt. Erick Hodge led a small boat platoon in Iraq in 2004. He's instructing the sailors on tactics and close combat along the Cape Fear River.

Hodge said the Marines swept islands and the river banks for weapons caches and disrupted insurgents from using the water to retreat. Eventually, the insurgents grew accustomed to the river patrols and began to set up ambushes.

The squadron is using Marine Corps patrol boats based on a Vietnam-era design. Eventually, the boats are expected to be turned over to the Navy.

Go to the link so you can see a picture of the boat -- it looks EXACTLY like a Vietnam era boat.

[fedupinBushcountry]

1. Lessons not learned

I get sick to my stomach everytime this story about these boats come up. My God it is like a remake of Zumwalt wanting his sailors to be more a part of a disastrous war. They will be sitting ducks, this is just ludicrous. My heart aches for those that will be on those boats.


Good point on Clinton Beachmom.