Posted on 06/22/2004 11:53:06 AM PDT by dusty99999
Flash news on MSNBC...
Damn.
not sure what "non-essential" means..
Right. If they're non-essential, why the hell are they there?
I think non essential means anyone they have there will have a very good machine gun.
Terry McCauliffe?
"...a very good machine gun, a bad attitude and strong motivation to get some payback." These non-essential won't be there to "fix & repair" things for the Iraqis...it will be more like to kill bad guys and break their stuff...
SEOUL, June 23 (Reuters) - South Korea will deploy 3,000 more troops to Iraq despite the beheading by Muslim militants of a South Korean hostage, the government said on Wednesday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil told reporters the National Security Council that advises President Roh Moo-hyun had held an emergency session to discuss the killing of Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old Arabic interpreter.
"Our government's basic spirit and position has not changed. We confirm that again because our troop deployment is for reconstruction and humanitarian aid support for Iraq," Shin said, reading from a statement. South Korea has had about 670 military medics and engineers in southern Iraq since May last year.
It means the South Koreans aren't going to be there to keep truckloads of food and water flowing into Iraqi cities.
They should announce that it's now 6,000 instead of 3,000, and the extra 3,000 are tasked with finding and beheading terrorists.
I expected a more defiant attitude, possibly a little anger over the beheading of their citizen..but no plans to withdraw troops is good at least.
I went off line, still mad about all this, and happened to turn on 'Mississippi Burning', one of my favorite movies. Right away it hit me that there are a lot of parallels to Iraq. Granted, it's a movie, all plotted out in advance, but the essentials are the same. We wanted change in the South, with equal rights for everyone, but this was very hard to achieve. We were bucking two hundred and fifty years of cultural stagnation. That's what we've got in the Middle East, only it's more like eight or nine hundred years of cultural and social stagnation. The Gene Hackman character in 'Mississippi Burning' is like a special ops guy, clever enough to see that sometimes the shortest distance between a and b, or to one's goal, is not always a straight line. (But sometimes it is.) Judicious use of violence, scare the beJesus out of the guilty and change hearts and minds day by day. It took patience, force, and guile. Some of the dialogue is right out of Al Jazeera. Southerners saying if the three white civil rights workers are dead, they came looking for trouble and found it...and another theory that if anything bad happened to the civil rights workers, it was probably done by the US govt. to get maximum effect and publicity. Hmm.
what a damned interesting post
No one liked the "cowboy" gang of thugs (terrorists) but the general population feared them enough that they didnt stand up. One big problem was that the towns people were not a united group like the thugs were. So each would be one against the whole group of bad guys basically. Had the town grouped together for the common good they could have beat them down.
I hope to see this happen in Iraq. Rather than expecting Wyatt (USA) to bail them completely out. If youve seen it you know Wyatt Earp, his brothers, Doc Holliday and a few others showed up and kicked their asses. Wyatts brother died though, but he died a man with honor.
In America we expect instant everything, turning back the culture of Iraq isnt a 1 year proposition. Im looking forward to see how the Iraqis will handle these scumbags while having no fear of media, UN, or any of that nonsense.
This aint a movie, we know. But some good lessons about whats worth fighting for can be realized in some of the better flicks.
I watched the end of 'Mississippi Burning' and the Wm. DaFoe character (your basic Wash. DC FBI man), said about 3/4 of the way through that 'this particular can of worms has to open from the inside'. Gene Hackman agreed...(and these two didn't agree about much of anything in the movie). DaFoe was all about getting evidence that would stand up in court. Hackman, a former Miss. sheriff, now with the FBI, knew there was more than one way to skin a cat. He bent the rules, kicked ass, and got an insider to confess to the murders. His pals dressed up as KKK and pretended to string up the man. The FBI arrived in time to save his life and promised him protection, so he sang like a canary and the bad guys went to jail. What we need in Iraq, basically, is on the ground information, informants, live intelligence operatives. All those things the Clinton admin. did away with as 'nasty'. And guess who's on the cover of Time this week. Clinton with a touched up nose.
I wish they would send 10,000 troops. These friggin' monsters must be stopped!!!!!!!!
I want to see some other place burning right now.
I just wish they would send thier famous, or infamous White horse regiment.These guys are serios bad ass airborn ranger types who laid waste to many a viet cong and have been accused of assorted war crimes/attrocities.In other words perfect for Iraq.
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