Posted on 11/09/2004 12:45:27 PM PST by Brilliant
They may be right, but since the media has such low credibility these days, I wouldn't assume so.
Co-written by Fadel al-Badrani.
A lousy propaganda piece.
thats good ask the french... like they know how to win a war...
French military strategist.....Isn't that an oxymoron?
French strategist?? Did he pass the course that shows you how to hide behind a woman's skirt during wartime?
Exactly. French military strategy: Drop rifle, point to where your women are hiding, then raise hands.
I take anything they said with a grain of salt.
Going into combat without the French is like going Deer hunting without your accordian
What does he mean, nothing will have been resolved? We will have retaken Fallujah and killed a boatload of terrorists. And since when are symbolic victories nothing? Not that the French would know anything about victories, symbolic or otherwise.
Symbolic? Like destroying the Ivory Coast's entire air force?
The French military is symbolic.
This from the people fighting for "hot chocolate".
LOL. Funny that the only French that know how to fight aren't French...Ever wonder why The FOREIGN Legion exists?
The French have military strategists? What do they do, manufacture white flags?
His comments are understandable given his nationality ... he's thinking along the lines of Dien Bien Phu (French loss of a fortified position).
The Americans are thinking Khe Sahn (successful defense of a fortified position that resulted in LOTS of enemy dead).
By taking the city center, holding it and fortifying it we're forcing the bad guys to come out and play on our terms.
From the French Military Strategy Field Manual: Bombard oncoming hordes with day old bread.
It's propaganda. Some facts could be correct but they aren't stating what the circumstances were. Also their putting the emphasis on what it took to take the center of Fallujah and not on what's been accomplished.
I expect to see more of this lean from the press. I noticed during the press conference the military gave today that a few members of the press were very hostile in the tone of their questions. Frankly they can all go and shove it.
Bwaaaahaaahaaa - that's a good one! How hard is it to figure out how to surrender?
Shouldn't the French stick to what they do best - shoot indescrimately into crowds then run away.
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