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No shades of gray-American soldiers have been disobeying orders
Jewish World Review ^
| April 8, 2003
| Mona Charen
Posted on 04/08/2003 5:07:05 AM PDT by SJackson
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As of this writing, the war has taken on a Twilight Zone quality. As members of the U.S. army smoke cigars in one of Saddam's largest palaces, and American C-130s land at the renamed Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi minister of information insists that rumors of an American presence in the city are false. Civilians catch busses and make purchases at markets, and the nights are punctuated by blasts from the sky that make sleep next to impossible.
No one knows if Saddam is alive or dead, but the news of Chemical Ali's demise warms the heart. A cousin of Saddam's, Ali was the enforcer who gassed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq and brutally suppressed the uprising in Basra following the Gulf War in 1991. (This war, for what it's worth, will probably become known as the Iraq War, not the Second Gulf War.)
There are no shades of gray in this war. At its conclusion, which God willing will come soon, we will celebrate the victory of light over darkness. War is a nasty, uncivilized, brutal business. But with that caveat, it is no exaggeration to boast that U.S. and British forces are now fighting the most humanitarian war in history.
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:07:06 AM PDT
by
SJackson
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To: SJackson
routinely tucking extra cases of bottled water into their Humvees to distribute to thirsty Iraqi civilians. This is against regulations, G-d bless our military: they are the best our country has to offer. Their degrees are not as advanced as those of Ivy League professors, and their taste in classical music may not be as refined as that of the NPR snobs. But their heart is where American has always been, despite the 50-year onslaught of the Left. And it is the heart that alsways differentiated us from the Europeans.
G-d bless our boys and girls out there, keep them, and bring them back alive and well.
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:20:23 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: wideawake; wardaddy
Which other army has people like we do?
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:21:43 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: TopQuark
Good morning, TQ! I continue to be amazed at the Iraqis who continue to fight. I guess its true, the ones who keep fighting dont want to have to face the people they have so badly trated and would rather die in a hail of American bullets, than face the families of the sons and daughters the Fedeyeen and ilk have butchered...
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:23:03 AM PDT
by
cardinal4
(The Senate Armed Services Comm; the Chinese pipeline into US secrets)
To: SJackson
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:26:24 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Muslim clerics, preaching jihad, are Weapons Of Mass Destruction!)
To: TopQuark
Which other army has people like we do? The UK?
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:32:58 AM PDT
by
Restorer
(TANSTAAFL)
To: SJackson
One thing I've noticed is that practically nobody - AT ALL - is reporting the fact that 98% of this "water & famine" problem existed before the war started. By not stating this explicitly, everyone's reporting on it is making the public falsely infer it's a direct result of coalition bombing.
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:43:46 AM PDT
by
Timesink
To: cardinal4
That is exactly right! You should be working as a consultant to our government.
I think the defenders are of two kinds. There are plenty of people that were privileged by the regime, and they honestly want it to succeed. Consider the number of people in RUssia that are nostalgic for communism --- it was good for them.
And for others, as you said so well, it is either be killed by a crowd of Iraqis after torture or by a bullet from an American gun. All I care about is that they don't take any of our boys with them when they go down.
You too, Cardinal, have a good day.
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:46:43 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: Restorer
Yeh, you are right. We do have common values. As M. THatcher said so well, "It was the union of the English-speaking peoples that saved the world." She might have added --- and gave it democracy.
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:49:00 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: *war_list
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posted on
04/08/2003 5:50:18 AM PDT
by
Free the USA
(Stooge for the Rich)
To: TopQuark
The English speaking people
The protestants
The white males
The Republicans
These are the only people that counts, the rest of the world can go to hell? SARCASM!!
To: philosofy123
?
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:11:45 AM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: philosofy123
Why sarcasm? It's true.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:12:54 AM PDT
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: TopQuark
It is of my opinion that Thatcher is wrong. It was America that saved the world. I believe that had there been no United States, Great Britain would have continued on its merry old way. The United States, since its conception, has always served as a counter-balance to England and the rest of Europe.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:33:24 AM PDT
by
7thson
To: Arkie2
Only white, male, English speaking, Protestant Republicans count? Everybody else can go to hell? I hope you don't honestly believe that.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:36:13 AM PDT
by
JaimeD2
To: JaimeD2
I wasn't responding to your race baiting quotes but those of the poster you were trying to ridicule.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:38:52 AM PDT
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: SJackson
...it is no exaggeration to boast that U.S. and British forces are now fighting the most humanitarian war in history. Bump
To: SJackson
This is against regulations, as rations for soldiers are meant to be kept separate from relief to the civilian population. The title of the article suggests sinister actions. In reality, officers are not as stupid as one might think. There are instances in which officers don't feel the need to know everything that's going on. We call it "selective blindness."
It's part of the enduring partnership between the officer corps and the senior enlisted ranks... soemtimes the senior enlisted do the right thing, even though it's not strictly by the book, and the officers attention is elsewhere diverted while this occurs, precluding correction.
An odd marriage, but it's worked quite well for a couple of centuries now.
To: Arkie2
I don't even know what you mean by that.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:45:14 AM PDT
by
JaimeD2
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