Mack Owens reviews a book about the Marines march to baghdad
"The March Up: Taking Baghdad" with the 1st Marine Division by "Bing" West and Major General Ray "E-tool" Smith, USMC (ret):
"...The Marines faced some sharp fights on the road to Baghdad and more once they arrived. They encountered Iraqi soldiers of all kinds: soldiers of regular units, some of whom fought and some of whom didn't; militia, who preferred not to fight but sometimes did because they wee intimidated by Saddam's fedayeen; and foreign jihadis.
"The jihadis asked no quarter and the Marines gave them none. The Marines
'knew the difference between these jihad fighters and the militia. Consequently the Marines shot them in the ditches and in the field. They threw grenades into the bulrushes and shot the fighters when they ran out. They threw grenades into the drainage pipes running under the road…A few of the foreign fighters surrendered, but most did not — they had come to Iraq to die, and die they would.'
"As one Marine put it, this was the perfect war. 'They want to die, and we want to kill them.'"
"The March Up: Taking Baghdad" with the 1st Marine Division by "Bing" West and Major General Ray "E-tool" Smith, USMC (ret):
"...The Marines faced some sharp fights on the road to Baghdad and more once they arrived. They encountered Iraqi soldiers of all kinds: soldiers of regular units, some of whom fought and some of whom didn't; militia, who preferred not to fight but sometimes did because they wee intimidated by Saddam's fedayeen; and foreign jihadis.
"The jihadis asked no quarter and the Marines gave them none. The Marines
'knew the difference between these jihad fighters and the militia. Consequently the Marines shot them in the ditches and in the field. They threw grenades into the bulrushes and shot the fighters when they ran out. They threw grenades into the drainage pipes running under the road…A few of the foreign fighters surrendered, but most did not — they had come to Iraq to die, and die they would.'
"As one Marine put it, this was the perfect war. 'They want to die, and we want to kill them.'"
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