Posted on 04/01/2003 7:48:28 AM PST by Diddley
SADDAM had a plan. He intended to lure allied forces into the streets of his cities, where ambushes would turn the war into a bloodbath.
Unfortunately for Saddam, our troops failed to cooperate: The blood being shed is that of Iraqi terrorists.
Our troops didn't charge wildly into Basra or Nasiriyah as Saddam hoped. Instead, they methodically began to dismantle the resistance put up by the regime's die-hard thugs and party hacks - fighting on our terms, not theirs.
Saddam's response showed exactly how much regard he has for the Iraqi people: He began slaughtering them in an attempt to force us to come into the cities and save them.
Saddam, you see, has studied the lessons of history. He knows that urban warfare traditionally has been a blood-soaked affair, and he believes - wrongly - that the American people are cowards who can't bear casualties. But he forgot that Americans aren't slaves to history. Americans make history.
And wherever the U.S. Marines, the U.S. Army or the Brits have chosen to enter urban areas - often to protect innocent Iraqis from their own government - they have done it with great skill, patience and determination. There will not be a street-by-street bloodbath in An Najaf or Basra, and certainly not in Baghdad.
Our forces are rewriting the book on how to conduct the toughest sort of military operations efficiently, effectively and with an unprecedented degree of humanity.
To put it even more accurately, our military already had rewritten the book - literally - before this war began. While cliques of self-appointed experts in Washington did their best to divert funds away from our ground forces (to lavish the money on defense contractors, instead), the Marine Corps marched ahead with its decade-long project to create new doctrine for urban warfare and to train Marines for a type of fight their leaders knew was coming.
Under a series of visionary commandants, the corps ignored the flashy theories of sterile high-tech war and prepared for what they believed the country would need them to do. And the Marines, not the technocrats, were right.
The U.S. Army, too, began to follow the USMC's lead back in the 1990s, constructing new urban-warfare training sites at various military bases and revamping combined-arms doctrine for the urban fight. As a result, our troops today - along with the Brits, thanks to their long experience in Northern Ireland - are the best-prepared in the world for combat in cities.
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We are dealing here with America!
I searched for Urban, Warfare, Peters and found nothing.
But, what the heck
Yeah!But he forgot that Americans aren't slaves to history. Americans make history.
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I am digging around in Arnett's past. Guess what pivotal quote in Viet Nam was "heard" by Peter Arnett?
"It became necessary to destroy the town (BanTre) in order to save it."
This quote, which was alledgedly made by an Air Force Major Chester L. Brown to Peter Arnett was one of the most effective bits of anti war propaganda to come out of the Viet Nam conflict.
The problem is, "Major Brown" may not have said it at all, it was probably created out of whole cloth by Peter Arnett even back then!
Here is some source material, go about 80% down the link, it is partially in Vietnamese and partially in English.
http://www.giaodiem.com/doithoai/nh-trancn.htm
We need to track down this "Major Brown" quote, if this was one of traitor Benedict Arnett's first "Big Lies", that will be important to know today. Has Arnett been an America hating mole since the 60s?
I read elsewhere his mentor was an Australian communist and virulent America hating reporter named ?Burchett?, this should also be tracked down.
"It became necessary to destroy the town (BanTre) in order to save it."
This quote, which was alledgedly made by an Air Force Major Chester L. Brown to Peter Arnett was one of the most effective bits of anti war propaganda to come out of the Viet Nam conflict.
No #h!t.....? Dude, that is a remarkable find! I hope that you are considering making this info its own thread. Just incredible....
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