Posted on 11/24/2006 6:46:08 PM PST by kristinn
Excellent post!
My husband is a Viet Nam vet.
I remember those days, too.
I pray history doesn't repeat itself.
Thank you!
This I don't understand. What I'm saying is that with my military training we were always taught that the terrorists liked soft targets and avoided the hard.
It seems to me that our troops in Iraq are the hard targets. In other words why haven't they targeted us, the homeland, the soft target?
Good post devolve, I am out of town and just checking in.
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Great article.
The American people are descended from heroes.
If Americans wouldn't throw in the towel at Valley Forge, at Anzio ("stand and fight"), at Normandy ("the boys of Pont Du Hoc"), at the Battle of the Bulge (19,000 dead in 5 weeks), at the Pusan Perimeter, and at Pork Chop Hill, surely we can provide "increased devotion to that cause for which they [i.e., our almost 3000 troops killed in Iraq in 3 and 1/2 years] gave the last full measure of devotion."
Actually we finished the job. We're just waiting on the Iraqi Government to take over. Has the Iraqi leader left to meet with the Iranian President yet?
To our knowledge, something like 200,000 people died at the hands of the secret police, 20,000 in Kurdish massacres, and 30,000 in post-Gulf War uprisings. And if you want to count Iraqi causalties in the Iran-Iraq War, that's 575,000 in the Iran-Iraq War. That's over a period of 25 years, and it doesn't quite add up to a million.
But I'd argue that we should keep the military casualties out of it in both cases -- including both the Iran-Iraq conflict and the insurgents we've been killing in this conflict. Just look at what life is like for an ordinary civilian Iraqi. This was my only point in bringing up the death toll: Is it more or less dangerous now in Iraq to go out for a pack of smokes?
The answer is obviously that it is more dangerous now.
could it be that tracking the terrorists by monitoring their overseas contacts and following the money, which Bush has staked everything on, has actually worked?
When will that job include killing enemies like Sadr?
I hope that "yes" was directed at the first of the three questions.
We'll,ya didn't really have to post "No comment",if you had no comment;)
Ever hear of the Iran-Iraq War? Iraq didn't win, but they held their own and it became a stalemate.
I did nothing of the kind. I merely said your gotcha game didn't work. I never said you started the game. The other fella still hasn't answered the question, by the way.
"Who on this thread has made remarks that are really just Republican in name only?"
Okay, you got me there. I will, however, justify my naming of the other two FReepers because this thread specifically refers to an entirely separate thread as being full of "cut and run" types. So why limit it to just the 400+ posts on this thread? There are plenty of examples of RINOs/Pubbies/Country Club Republicans, but very few examples of "cut and run" FReepers. But what do I know? There are some here that would probably call me a "cut and run" type.
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Since I mentioned it, I guess I'd heard of it. Would the Iraqis have had the wherewithal to use poison gas again, as they did to save themselves in the war in the 80's?
I'll support your right to be wrong if you allow me to point out that you are wrong....
It could easily be argued that many who are killing the innocent were and are supporters of Saddam, others are people he let out of jail ....but then I guess that is the fault of the US government.....
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