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As focus of war changes, capturing leader is key
nj ^ | December 15, 2003 | JEFF SCHOGOL

Posted on 12/15/2003 7:13:36 AM PST by stainlessbanner

Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In the future, the United States will see more events like Saddam Hussein's capture, Donald Miller, a history professor at Lafayette College, said Sunday.

In previous wars, the United States put a priority on defeating enemy nations, not capturing enemy leaders, Miller said.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: confederate; davis; dixielist; husseincapture; husseindavis; liberalmantra; president; racecard; war
The comparison of Davis and Hussein are out of line.
1 posted on 12/15/2003 7:13:38 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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Miller found parallels between Davis and Saddam.
2 posted on 12/15/2003 7:14:18 AM PST by stainlessbanner (Down at mile marker zero, people tend to go insane.)
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To: stainlessbanner
The comparison of Davis and Hussein are out of line.

Agreed. What a putz!

3 posted on 12/15/2003 7:17:38 AM PST by RebelBanker (Deo Vindice)
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To: stainlessbanner
The comparison of Davis and Hussein are out of line.

That is an understatement. One was a great man despite if you agreed with him and the other a homicidal mass murderer... Davis had conviction for he believed was right and conducted war in an honorable way. Saddam was a ruthless dictator. The only similarity is that they were both leaders.

4 posted on 12/15/2003 7:19:45 AM PST by Naspino (I am in no way associated with the views expressed in your posts.)
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To: stainlessbanner
...a history professor at Lafayette College...

A "history" professor?. Those poor kids.

5 posted on 12/15/2003 7:20:23 AM PST by thatdewd
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To: stainlessbanner
Well, they were both deposed national leaders who were captured by the victorious forces. That's a parallel in the strictest sense ...
6 posted on 12/15/2003 7:29:19 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nobody's indoctrinating MY children ... except me!)
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To: stainlessbanner
Miller found parallels between Davis and Saddam.

What damn parallels???? Saddam has killed 400,000 of his own people!

Pres. Davis only tried to organize a guerrilla force.

Donald Miller must be an idiot!

7 posted on 12/15/2003 7:36:36 AM PST by SCDogPapa (In Dixie Land I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie)
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The only parallel I can see is both were captured by the FedGov. The policies, actions, behavior, and honor of both men are dissimilar. This comparison was ill-conceived.
8 posted on 12/15/2003 7:43:49 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
Miller found parallels between Davis and Saddam.

What a nutjob! Davis didnt execute his own citizens. I found parallels between Miller and a moron.

9 posted on 12/15/2003 8:14:47 AM PST by 4CJ ('Scots vie 4 tavern juices' - anagram by paulklenk, 22 Nov 2003)
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To: stainlessbanner
This comparison was ill-conceived.

Well, of course it was. I was just pointing out that there's a similarity in their situations, if not in any other sense.

10 posted on 12/15/2003 9:09:36 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nobody's indoctrinating MY children ... except me!)
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To: stainlessbanner
well of course!

the media & "intellectual" elites are ALL anti-dixie!

LIARS all!

free the southland,sw

11 posted on 12/15/2003 10:03:08 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ,T. Jefferson)
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To: stainlessbanner
Miller's assertion about the parallels between Hussein and Jeff Davis are ludicrous. Jeff Davis, in NO WAY even remotely be compared to Saddam. One fought for freedom, the other to tyrannize and brutalize a country.
12 posted on 12/15/2003 12:48:47 PM PST by Colt .45 (Cold War, Vietnam Era, Desert Storm Veteran - Pride in my Southern Ancestry!)
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To: stainlessbanner
Was this written by a six-year old?

It's very clunky and hard to read, like a child wrote it.

13 posted on 12/15/2003 7:27:55 PM PST by Gianni (Some things never change.)
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