Good news:

According to CNN, the official favorite cable news network of The Country Pundit, our boys in beige have laid the smack down on the Fedayeen Saddam, inflicting 46 KIA, 18 WIA, with an additional 8 POWs. Our people suffered no KIA and 5 WIA; 3 of the latter have been transported to hospitals with injuries that do not appear life-threatening.

The Baathist attacks were upon two different targets but were launched "simultaneously", according to CNN. In both instances, American convoys were targeted.

The Country Pundit's favorite part (other than the announced kill ratio):

Troops from the 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment and U.S. military police responded with a barrage of cannon fire from tanks and armored personnel carriers, [Master Sergeant Robert] Cargie said. When the attackers put up a makeshift barricade in an attempt to block one convoy, U.S. armor steamrolled over it, he said.

The Baathists provoked our 120mm and 25mm cannon fire with improvised explosive devices, rifles, mortars, and the by-now ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenades. Apparently the state of education in Saddam's Iraq was such that these guys were dumb enough to think that they'll get away with this one. Deliberate suicide attacks might be rather difficult to stop, but I bet these schmoes thought they were going to be getting the bling bling (or something) for spilling American blood. What they didn't get told was that the only bling bling in it for them was the approximate sound of American cartridge cases hitting concrete. Muahahaha.

Woo friggin' hoo. In the immortal words of video game hero Duke Nukem, "Come get some!"¹ I can only get a Calvinesque big evil grin on my face coupled with a guttural laugh of "Heh heh heh" when reading about this. It's just too perfect---I'm glad we're whipping up on these people.²

Message for the Fedayeen Saddam: Your beatings will continue until resistance ceases.

¹ I am aware of the fact that Bruce Campbell's Ash utters these words ahead of Duke in terms of a popular culture timeline, but Duke Nukem 3D was the first time I'd ever heard the phrase.

² Despite the obviously celebratory nature of this post, the Pundit is a Christian man and will remember the souls of the dead in his evening prayer, wishing that it didn't have to be this way---it doesn't; go home and build the new no-Saddam Iraq---but not wavering in his resolve to support seeing the mission through and getting our people out. Every time some third-world militia tries to kill our people, I usually cheer at their failure but then I'm also reminded of the words uttered at the 1898 Battle of Santiago Bay by the captain of USS Texas, John Woodward Philip, as his ship helped pound the Spanish Oquendo: "Don't cheer boys, the poor devils are dying." I hate war.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Dana at Note-It Posts, home of America's #1 Pin-Up Girl, for the notification.

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