Subject of Times profile dies in Iraq

"One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy," he once said.

When did the innocent Iraqi people become the enemy, I thought Georgie and the likes of this one, went into liberate the Iraqi people didn't they?

Well he won't be to exhilerated now will he, he's dead, one less of Georgies killing machine out there to take innocent lives.

Marine Maj. Douglas Zembiec said he 'never felt so alive' as in battle

.By Tony Perry, Times Staff WriterMay 12, 2007 BAGHDAD —

Maj. Douglas Zembiec, a Marine Corps officer profiled in the Los Angeles Times magazine in 2004, was killed while leading a raid on insurgents in Baghdad, officials reported Friday.

Details of his death on Thursday were sketchy.

In an age when many prefer military personnel to be diffident and reluctant to engage in violence, Zembiec was proudly a throwback.

"One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy," he once said.

Zembiec, 34, received a Bronze Star with a V for valor for leading an infantry company in repeated assaults against insurgents in the Sunni Triangle city of Fallouja in 2004.

Bloodied by shrapnel, Zembiec led his troops in combat so close that the two sides were hurling grenades from 20 feet apart. He later was part of low-profile missions in Afghanistan to thwart the resurging Taliban.

Zembiec seemed to revel in the experience of combat. In the magazine article, he was quoted as calling a firefight in Fallouja "the greatest day of my life."

"I never felt so alive, so exhilarated, so purposeful," he said the day after a battle in which two of his troops were killed and 18 wounded. "There is nothing equal to combat and there is no greater honor than to lead men into combat."

LinkHere