[Chemist_Geek]

Sorry, I am not on drugs of any sort.

The obvious thing to write, would be, "Perhaps you ought to be." However, I'm not qualified to say.

What I am qualified to say is that there is no person, no military organization, which is perfect. The United States military is the most powerful on the planet, of that there is no doubt. However, its procedures are not perfect (just ask any supply clerk) and can be improved. If the Coalition is in Iraq merely to smash Saddam and grab the WMD, then it's irrelevant how we treat the Iraqi people. Of course, if we treat them poorly then we'll just have to keep going back, over and over, in the future, and fill up Arlington quicker. We need to create a nation of Iraq which is hostile to terrorists, and friendly to America.

Our forces can learn something - and be more effective in the long term - from the way the UK forces are behaving. There are posts above in this thread from Criminal Number 18F, which say parallel things.

Go ahead and label me a defeatist and America-basher. It'll prove my point.

[Happygal]

Excellent post, Chemist Geek! Just Excellent!

[Pukka Puck]

I agree with Waterdragon this article written in Telegraph is a crap.

This is not an article written to be informative or helpful. It was written to disparage American troops and caters to anti-American feelings in Britain.

If you can't see the glaring spin in this article, you are blind.

[WaterDragon]

I don't think anyone has said our troops are perfect, or that they aren't learning constantly, which they are.

The tone of the article is snide, and this isn't the first time the so-called conservative Telegraph has printed such. That is what is objectionable.

Do you think intelligent men are capapble, if they want, to write seriously about issues without snide sneering at the troops of an ally? I think they can, again -- if they want to.