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A Great Speech
BlackFive ^ | July 13, 2007 | LTC Randolph White

Posted on 07/14/2007 8:52:51 AM PDT by enough_idiocy

LTC Randolph White's Infantry School AIT graduation speech.

First few minutes he destroys the naysayers.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iraq; troops; veterans; wot

1 posted on 07/14/2007 8:52:55 AM PDT by enough_idiocy
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To: enough_idiocy

A great re-mix of it with some Toby....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVm_zn0bPg&mode=related&search=


2 posted on 07/14/2007 8:59:11 AM PDT by enough_idiocy (Just like against terrorism, in politics you can't be on the defensive all the time!!!!)
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To: enough_idiocy

Questions/observations on the war...

It seems to me that;
1. rightly or wrongly, failure in Iraq is defined as the enemy merely setting off 3 or 4 suicide bombs per week.
2. In even the very best of circumstances, preventing such attacks would be very close to impossible.
3. The ONLY way in which we could perhaps prevent it would be mega-super violence on a scale not seen since WWII.
4. Unless we lose a city or 2 to nukes, we just simply, positively (unfortunately) do not possess the will to dish out such mega-violence.
5. Therefore, we cannot win.


3 posted on 07/14/2007 9:10:33 AM PDT by RayStacy
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To: RayStacy
We need another Gen. George Patton.


4 posted on 07/14/2007 9:17:58 AM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: enough_idiocy

I liked what he said about men signing up for the infantry even after listening to media coverage of the war’s problems. I wish we could deploy men like this to defend our borders as well. We can’t simultaneously fight Islamism abroad without defending our borders adequately at home.


5 posted on 07/14/2007 9:20:14 AM PDT by Old 300
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To: RayStacy
Therefore, we cannot win

As a veteran of Truman's miserable Army in Korea where the US 8th Army was nearly destroyed and thousands taken to prison camps

I'm appalled by the defeatist attitude toward the Iraq war that is going about as well as the Philippine American War.

6 posted on 07/14/2007 9:39:51 AM PDT by Griddlee
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To: RayStacy
"...1. rightly or wrongly, failure in Iraq is defined as the enemy merely setting off 3 or 4 suicide bombs per week. ..."

Is that your definition? It ain't mine.
7 posted on 07/14/2007 10:09:36 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (An Army Dad)
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“...failure in Iraq is defined as the enemy merely setting off 3 or 4 suicide bombs per week...”

It’s not my definition, either.

But... I THINK that what Ray Stacy meant was that this seems to be the definition being used by most media outlets, as well as Reid, Pelosi, and etc.


8 posted on 07/14/2007 10:22:04 AM PDT by Molly K.
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To: Molly K.

I guess it’s up to us not to subscribe to (yet another....) big lie.


9 posted on 07/14/2007 11:46:49 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (An Army Dad)
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To: Griddlee

I think we must be seeing the ill effects of people who know no history. They have no imagination or vision against which to make judgments. Because I have read history I can imagine lots of much worse scenarios that might have been in Iraq. Only really ignorant people would conclude that 3,000 casualties and a prison scandal constitute the end of the world.


10 posted on 07/14/2007 1:20:57 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: capt. norm

Patton, bah...We need a LeMay.


11 posted on 07/14/2007 4:52:17 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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To: capt. norm

As long as we have need of sweeping cavalry tactics employing much armor, we could use another Patton. However, his style of tactics came to an abrupt halt in late 1944 during the Lorraine Campaign against the heavily-fortified city of Metz in which his Third Army suffered 50,000 casualties in three months. Patton loathed positional warfare but that is what he found at Metz.


12 posted on 07/15/2007 4:10:10 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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