Now, if 50% of the 130,000 or so troops in the region acted like these Marines, she might have a point. But the ratios don't really work for her hysterics to make any sense.
Posted on 05/22/2006 4:40:28 PM PDT by SJackson
Now, if 50% of the 130,000 or so troops in the region acted like these Marines, she might have a point. But the ratios don't really work for her hysterics to make any sense.
"and then they killed my granny".
An Iraqi child is supposed to have said this? granny? Assuming the child wasn't speaking in English, how did "granny" enter the picture? Linda S. Heard's fevered mind-meld maybe. What a wierd article.
(And no Coop, I'm not going to post a picture of Zeta, do I have to pay a fine? :)
What recent military action have we lost that is comparable to the scale of Vietnam burned in our memory?
With 72 hour notice, we will have a combination of terrorists and innocents leaving the area. The hard core terrorists will stay with their huge caches of weapons. I would envision a joint effort with Iraqi soldiers and officers and our allies.
The war would be over (and won) if we had done that a couple of years ago, or just after our contractors were burned and their bodies dragged through the streets. Would be helpful if we had real men instead of lawyers running this war, IMHO.
If a nuke goes off in a US city, Iran and Syria will nuked off the map. How's that for collateral damage ?
My first thought was of blindfolds and a politically corect, optional, cigarette.
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Done. Thank you!
Ahhh, okay, now I understand. Thanks
Hey, while the terrorists are being so kind as to remain behind to be bombed, do you suppose you could ask all the ones in Pakistan/Afghanistan to go worship in a pre-wired mosque?
This is simply not true, and I am not sure why it is posted here. Why on earth promote this kind of anti American trash?
If the Military HAD behaved like that, they would simply be repeating 5,000 years of precedent peculiar to that region.
Given the local History, a town in which an IED took out some troops would be leveled to the ground, its men slaughtered, and the rest lead away to slavery. It would be nothing at all unusual for the region, would it?
So anything less than that is a display of restraint and good sportsmanship.
The entire region has always been a festering pesthole of despots, savages, and endless wars. Were a big meteor to entirely depopulate the region, would the World be a better place, or a worse place?
If she is American. Her citizenship should be stripped immediately and flown directly to Yemen for some true muslim indoctrination. Bitch.
Oh gosh, do you think that could be my problem?!! :-)
2. The use of force, including deadly force, is authorized to protect the following:
That permissive phrase allows our troops to use deadly force if, in their judgment, they are at risk of life/limb or "friendlies" identified by ROE are at risk.
If the ROE were as restrictive as some here claim (such as the MYTH that our troops cannot attack mosques, even when fired upon from a mosque), our troops would not be conducting so many offensive operations. Dev, anything to add? You're more up on current policies and the like.
I don't get the Zeta reference. C. Zeta Jones? I don't get it.
Do you think that the terrorists will pick up their weapon caches and leave? I suspect that door-to-door fighting will be needed as it was in Germany during WWII, with the vermin fighting to the last man. Should I be wrong and all the vermin leave before the bombing started, why then we would just have to find and destroy all of the weapon caches without dropping a single bomb. Given that the Sunni Triangle is occupied by the minority tribes that ruled the country with an iron fist under Saddam, I would assume that they want their power back, and, as has been demonstrated time and again, will not stop their destructive ways as long as they are allowed to maintain their base of operations IMHO.
They have not been allowed to retain their base of operations.
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