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JJR on HRC: Tuzla Under Fire
I returned this year to Bowie, Arizona after annihilating a bunch of Burmese thugs and I thought I was finally going to be able to enjoy some peace and quiet, but it seems that life always has different plans for JJR. When I tried to return from Vietnam after serving my country dutifully I was greeted like an outcast by that jerk, Sheriff Will Teasle. I was just passing through, but oh no.. we had to do things his way. However, like most who cross paths with JJR he proved that he was truly unprepared to compete on my level. After that, it wasn't too long that JJR found himself back in southeast Asia.
But that was all supposed to be water under the bridge. Not so fast, JJR. There was a new war going on at home. They call it the Democratic Primary.
For a while I was content to watch from the bushes and do some recon. That was okay for a while, but then the story about HRC's trip to Bosnia broke out.
First you had that hack Sinbad piping up about where he was eating next. Typical civilian. Now they're trying to roast HRC with a bunch of bogus unclassified footage. She says she misspoke. Nothing could be further from the truth. You see, JJR was there and HRC is being entirely too modest.
HRC's mission was doomed from the start. Her aircraft came in under heavy fire. We tried to secure the plane as quickly as possible after an evasive landing, but the tarmac was under assault from mortars. The crew chief was trying to get everyone to safety when he was mortally wounded by a sniper. Carotid artery. He was dead before he hit the ground. HRC fell down on him, ripping off part of her pantsuit to try and stop the bleeding. I yelled at her that he was gone and after a few seconds I caught eye contact that told me she understood: It was a cold, battle-hardened look that I knew well. Soldiers die. We had to worry about the living.
I was running to her to pull to her feet when a mortar nearly put an end to the lifelong campaign of JJR. I was knocked to the ground, completely disoriented. When I came to, I was being dragged to cover behind an APC by HRC. She had saved my life and was returning fire using the sidearm that she had pulled from the downed crewman. My ears were still ringing.
Two tangos were rushing the tarmac, but HRC took them both down with an accuracy that can only come from the madness of raw combat. She pulled me into the APC and asked me if I could drive. I nodded and got into the driver's seat. HRC got on the ma-deuce and began to mow down the opposition. The bloodbath that ensued was far too graphic for the average reader, but take it from JJR: Reports that the conflict in Bosnia had largely been concluded are a revisionist's history. That conflict was brought to a close on that fateful day in 1996 by an honored soldier named Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I'm usually a man of few words, but when a story like this surfaces about someone with whom JJR stood shoulder to with on the field of battle it is my duty to set the record straight.













Comments (13)
John J. Rambo, I applaud you and I ask you to join our campaign!
Sinbad/Clinton/Rambo '08 - THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD!!
March 25, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
JJR has already served with honor, but he will continue to heed the call when the record needs to be straightened out.
Also, I'm coming for you, Murdock!
March 25, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
JJR, when you helped liberate our MIAs in Vietnam, did you learn any more about John McCain? From afar, the heroism of HRC in the Bosnian conflict makes McCain's experience look secondary, but perhaps you have a different perspective.
March 25, 2008 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having spent time as a POW myself, I can tell you that John McCain's stay at the Hanoi Hilton is nothing to laugh at. Fortunately for J-MAC, he was welcomed back to America with open arms and high honors instead of being treated as derelict and being forced to tangle with that bastard Sheriff Teasle. I couldn't even get a job parking cars!
However, he may perhaps face his greatest challenge yet when he comes up against HRC in the general election. It's going to make Burma look like Branson, Missouri.
March 25, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn you're good.
LOL!
March 25, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to tip my cap to this choice turn of phrase, "a revisionist's history."
What you did in that mine shaft... And the rooftop scenario with the M60... The booby traps you set for those accursed dobermans...
Let's just leave it at this: If I had a hundred men like you during my tour in Flint, Michigan, GM would still be there in force, pumping out hybrids that run on vegetable oil and a teaspoon of human tears.
God bless you, John Rambo. May the world never forget your sacrifice...
March 26, 2008 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks. It's not often that JJR has gotten recognition for his service. It's unfortunate that I had to rely on my warrior's prowess when all I wanted was a little something to eat. That diner looked like it would have whipped up a tasty lunch.
JJR would have loved to fight at your side in Michigan. Unfortunately, I had to spend the 80's doing time for the events you describe, trying to rescue POWs in Vietnam, helping out Buddhists in Thailand and rescuing Col. Trautman from the Russians in Afghanistan. As much as I'd love to be in every battle there's only one JJR. Unfortunately, they broke the mold when they made this soldier.
March 26, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
JJR, you are a national treasure.
March 26, 2008 7:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, awesome! Was there a "Mission Accomplished" banner too?
March 26, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
True warriors like JJR and HRC never need to employ codpieces, staged photo ops or ridiculous banners like that panty-waist GWB. Our honor is our service. That's why she was so modest about what really happened. I was going to respect her modesty until the anti-HRC cabal that runs the MSM came out of the woodwork like Charlie to slander her good name.
G-DUB reminds me of that coward Murdock. Makes me sick.
March 26, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Rambo...how are cuff and link doing?
March 26, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have no idea. Maybe you should ask Rocky Balboa.
March 26, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey,
I agonize over the hardships that Sinbad & Hillary and company had to endure in Bosnia.
Finding the next place to eat.
From a recent private interview with hillary clinton
here's her take !
Yes, Sinbad's commments ring with rememberance.
That fateful day, we all in our brief period of the harrowing madness of gunfire experienced what one could only term. A brief but tortous famine!
until we did find our spot to replentish our stomachs with some wholesome food.
Im happy to say that i led the search for "feeding the hungry" in Bosnia.
When all thought we would perish. I wouldnt stop fighting to find something. Even if it was scraps or tiny morsels of food. I wasnt going to just give up hope. not me !
you know ther's a well known saying around the whitehouse, "If there's a restaurant, no matter how small, how poor, or how filthy, leave it up to the first lady to find it and get a free meal"
well let me tell you. when i found that oasis in the desert for all of us. Everybody was just so thankful. They lavished praise upon me. But instead of trying to puff myself up from the event i instead "gave it back" and said.....hey, i did it for you !
it reminds me of a person we met in the mess hall.
He said, Hillary how can a woman with your vast understanding of the universe and worldly events share a table with us nothings?
i laughed and said, dont be silly, i love you little people.
the story goes on, but im just to choked up to continue.....
March 30, 2008 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
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