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To: First_Salute
Sensitive military information is being posted to FR, but it should not be posted, no matter how much it may be found elsewhere in public. The identification of Allied military units, their whereabouts, and their destination are of great aid to the enemy --- and the enemy is much more than Saddam Hussein's Iraq... The information being posted to FreeRepublic, may be on the Internet and so-called public knowledge, but every instance of a retelling of it, is the reminder to a bad guy who overlooked it.

With all respect and deference to your motives for your post, I have to take issue with your assertion that "sensitive" information is being posted on FreeRepublic. We should not flatter ourselves -- the enemy is not looking here to glean questionable tidbits of information on unit movements. He instead finds voluminous movement and order of battle details already compiled on the websites of several think tanks. For confirmation, he also reads the local papers near major military bases which describe the specific units as they are deploying, and continue with human interest stories about the families of deployed units. Why should he come here to decipher idle chatter when he can so easily get hard facts elsewhere? He does not.

It might make us feel important to think that our rehashing of media-published information constitutes "loose lips" chatter, but that is actually hogwash. All that Saddam's intel can learn from FreeRepublic is that we don't like him very much.

10 posted on 03/06/2003 7:24:16 AM PST by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine
Bump.
13 posted on 03/06/2003 8:46:07 AM PST by First_Salute
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