Warlord: No Better Friend. No Worse Enemy.
A must read for every patriotic American.
Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano is a true American hero. Raised on the tough streets of NY he enlisted in the Marines after high school and fought in the first Gulf War. When he completed his tour of duty he became a successful businessman in NYC. And then came 9/11. Once again he selflessly shaved his head, shined his boots and reported for duty as a United States Marine. Leaving a pregnant wife and small child at home he went off to the hell hole also known as Iraq. During a firefight he shot two Iraqi men who were not obeying his commands and in turn an asswipe "marine" (who I don't understand for the life of me ever made it into the Marines) falsely reported to his superiors that Pantano had murdered this Iraqi's in cold blood. Pantano was charged with pre-meditated murder and returned stateside to literally fight for his life on US soil.
This book was a great read. It gave a very clear picture what our heroic men in uniform have to go through on a daily basis on the battlefield. You feel the apprehension, the anxiety, the fear and the strength of these brave men fighting the scum of the earth. He put me in the firefight. I felt like I was on patrol. There was no PC bull crap. He was a breath of fresh air. There was no politics just brutal honesty about war. The more I read the more angry I got. I could not believe the government wasted one penny even investigating this true hero. Why does the government send our boys off to war to fight the filth of the planet and then second guess them is beyond me and any rationale person. Pantano was charged with pre-meditated murder; shouldn't everyone who goes to war be charged with pre-meditated murder since they are all given weapons with the intention to use them to maim and kill. It seems pre-meditated to me. This case was such a farce. No American soldier should have to be second guessing his gut instinct to kill a terrorist on the battlefield. The name Ilario Pantano should have never become a household name. Pantano should be compensated for the physical pain and more importantly the emotional pain and suffering he and his family endured as a result of this madness.
If Pantano intentionally killed a US soldier I could understand a court martial, but an Iraqi raghead??? As far as I'm concerned the heroic US soldiers have done enough for the Iraqi people. It's time for the Iraqi's to fight for their own freedom. Its time that the soldiers stop risking their lives for people who don't give a rats ass about the US soldiers who built schools, roads, and most of all liberated them from a tyrant. The Iraqi's need to fight their own war now. We have given them the tools now it needs to be their sons and daughters coming home in black body bags. If the Iraqi's don't take control of their own lives than its clear that they don't value life and we should finally use the bunker busters and B-2's and B-52's and every time a US soldier is killed an Iraqi town is decimated. Remember Dresden? One Sunni town and the next soldier killed it will be a Shiite town - we will treat them as equals. Only when the Iraqi's stop acting like 8th century barbarians will there be peace there until then we can only cry for our dead boys coming home in bags and pray for the wounded who are coming home maimed. May God bless them all with the highest level of blessing.
Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano is a true American hero. Raised on the tough streets of NY he enlisted in the Marines after high school and fought in the first Gulf War. When he completed his tour of duty he became a successful businessman in NYC. And then came 9/11. Once again he selflessly shaved his head, shined his boots and reported for duty as a United States Marine. Leaving a pregnant wife and small child at home he went off to the hell hole also known as Iraq. During a firefight he shot two Iraqi men who were not obeying his commands and in turn an asswipe "marine" (who I don't understand for the life of me ever made it into the Marines) falsely reported to his superiors that Pantano had murdered this Iraqi's in cold blood. Pantano was charged with pre-meditated murder and returned stateside to literally fight for his life on US soil.
This book was a great read. It gave a very clear picture what our heroic men in uniform have to go through on a daily basis on the battlefield. You feel the apprehension, the anxiety, the fear and the strength of these brave men fighting the scum of the earth. He put me in the firefight. I felt like I was on patrol. There was no PC bull crap. He was a breath of fresh air. There was no politics just brutal honesty about war. The more I read the more angry I got. I could not believe the government wasted one penny even investigating this true hero. Why does the government send our boys off to war to fight the filth of the planet and then second guess them is beyond me and any rationale person. Pantano was charged with pre-meditated murder; shouldn't everyone who goes to war be charged with pre-meditated murder since they are all given weapons with the intention to use them to maim and kill. It seems pre-meditated to me. This case was such a farce. No American soldier should have to be second guessing his gut instinct to kill a terrorist on the battlefield. The name Ilario Pantano should have never become a household name. Pantano should be compensated for the physical pain and more importantly the emotional pain and suffering he and his family endured as a result of this madness.
If Pantano intentionally killed a US soldier I could understand a court martial, but an Iraqi raghead??? As far as I'm concerned the heroic US soldiers have done enough for the Iraqi people. It's time for the Iraqi's to fight for their own freedom. Its time that the soldiers stop risking their lives for people who don't give a rats ass about the US soldiers who built schools, roads, and most of all liberated them from a tyrant. The Iraqi's need to fight their own war now. We have given them the tools now it needs to be their sons and daughters coming home in black body bags. If the Iraqi's don't take control of their own lives than its clear that they don't value life and we should finally use the bunker busters and B-2's and B-52's and every time a US soldier is killed an Iraqi town is decimated. Remember Dresden? One Sunni town and the next soldier killed it will be a Shiite town - we will treat them as equals. Only when the Iraqi's stop acting like 8th century barbarians will there be peace there until then we can only cry for our dead boys coming home in bags and pray for the wounded who are coming home maimed. May God bless them all with the highest level of blessing.
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