Coalition Vows 'Deliberate' Response to Attacks

DoD-AFPS ^ | John D. Banusiewicz

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

3/31/2004:

Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing

[trebb]

A lot of folks are angry because we haven't leveled the place, but if we do that, the same folks (not to mention the America-hating Dims) will howl about the "slaughter of innocents".

We'll kick up some ops and more of them will end up dead...

[SolutionsOnly]

I really doubt if our government has the stomach to really do what needs to be done. Words are one thing, actions another. I'm anxiously waiting to see what the response will be. Unfortunately, I suspect it will be woefully limp-wristed.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

 A "deliberate, precise, overwhelming" response awaits the insurgents who killed four American contractors and five U.S. soldiers March 31, the coalition's military spokesman said at a Baghdad news conference today.

 

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[CMailBag]

A half dozen A-10s should be able to handle it.

[Joe Boucher]

Our response should be deliberate.
We should deliberately use a stealth bomber and deliver a nuke that takes out the city and everone and everything in it.
Insatead there will be a measured spanking. Grow some balls there Mr. Bush.

[Kaslin]

I Like this the best.

"It will be at the time and the place of our choosing. We will hunt down the criminals. We will kill them or we will capture them, and we will pacify Fallujah."

[Zack Nguyen]

escorting a food convoy in Fallujah, Iraq...

Just unbelievable. They were killed trying to bring those people food.

[Freesofar]

Hopefully the political war strategists know what they are doing. I'd be PO'd if I was over there with a target on my back
Bad news

[Agnes Heep]

Insatead there will be a measured spanking.

Nothing wrong with that, depending on who's getting spanked. Aim high.

[talleyman]

I could never be president, because I'd have leveled the place...

[expatguy]

You are correct, the response that is needed is not the one that will be taken.

Osama Bin Laden once said that Somalia proved that America is a paper tiger.

The people there don't like us, they never have. Not one Muslim country in the world supports us. There is no way to win these people over.

The only next best thing we can hope for is that they will come to fear us, but that means we must be prepared to win.

[Kaslin]

I really doubt if our government has the stomach to really do what needs to be done. Words are one thing, actions another. I'm anxiously waiting to see what the response will be. Unfortunately, I suspect it will be woefully limp-wristed.

You have to remember this administration does not run like bunch of cowards like the previous one did

[Freesofar]

It hurts to even suggest it.
BUT wars are won by breaking the will of the opposition.
evidently the bad guys know this, hence the food target.the target disenheartens the local freindlies
PC reaction is a big mistake IMO, but then I am just an "armchair general"

[F14 Pilot]

Bump!!! OVERWHELMING RESPONSE, NOW!!!

[SolutionsOnly]

The response I have in mind is a little bit more severe than 'not running'.

[RonHolzwarth]

Well, this is what they say:

You don't win a war by dying for your country,

you win by making the other bastard die for his.

[blackie]

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[Jim Noble]

A lot of folks are angry because we haven't leveled the place, but if we do that, the same folks (not to mention the America-hating Dims) will howl about the "slaughter of innocents".

"The same folks...will howl about the slaughter of innocents"

Not this boy.

Let the slaughter begin, the sooner the better.

Oderint dum metuant

[Kaslin]

In run I meant like running away, like the previous administration did. I hope you know that