Those who are hoping for the worst in Iraq

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 7/4/2003 | Joseph Perkins

[MEG33]

Bump for Bush believing our troops are THE BEST!God Bless each one and keep them safe!

[dalereed]

Not that every combat death is one too many, Vietnam killed a small number in reality. Having lived through WW2, it's miniscule.

[cherry_bomb88]

The liberals fail to see the trend that combat deaths are decreasing.

As you said, one death is one too many, however the numbers pale in comparison to 'Nam, Korea, WWII, WWI, The Civil War, etc. (as a percentage basis).

[cherry_bomb88]

I'll bump to that too!

[MeekOneGOP]

From your #19:

President Bush: There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring them on.

Amen ! Bring 'em on !!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Gotta love Donald Rumsfeld !!

"Can you remind us again why this is not a quagmire?" asked one wag. "And can you tell us why you're so reluctant to say that what's going on in Iraq now is a guerrilla war?"

A fellow wag followed up. Could it be that Secretary Rumsfeld, that Gen. Richard Meyers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are loath to concede that Iraq has disintegrated into a guerrilla war because it "begins to bring to mind the last one that the United States had, which was Vietnam?"

"Which," the wag added, sarcastically, "I think most people can agree was not a resounding success."

< snip >

Rumsfeld suffered the anti-war wags more gladly than they deserved.

Take that, Wag !!

[onyx]

Joseph Perkins Big-Time-Bump-To-The-Top!

He's smart, gracious and humble! I adore him!

fieldmarshaldj: JP deserves and merits a place on your list! :-)

[cherry_bomb88]

ROTFL...you come up with the best pictures

[liberalnot]

the los angeles times would hop right on that one.

[mtbopfuyn]

What's pitiful is that most of those Rat journalists weren't even alive during Viet Nam to even know what they're talking about.

[dalereed]

The way they write they must think that war is some kind of video game or flight simulator that when you lose or crash you just hit the reset button and no one ever gets hurt.

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Thanks. I think I found that pic on the Lightning thread recently ? Not sure, tho . . .

Viking Kittie Lightning Strike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/939202/posts

Note: That thread is VERY GRAPHIC INTENSIVE ! SLOW loading for dialup connections.

Even a bit slow for my Comcast Cable Internet connection.

[dalereed]

bump

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Wonderful pics, Meekie, thanks! Rummy-ZOT! Lol!

Thank for the post, dale. Big hugs to Mr. Perkins in gratitude for his courage and honor!

[Captain Kirk]

Taking a stand against this bone-headed occupation and policing operation is Iraq is not in any way unpatriotic. Most freepers oughta know. They were in the front lines opposing similar policies by Clinton (including Haiti and Kosovo).

[Captain Kirk]

These days Rumsfeld is blindly worshipped as a god on Free Republic. I remember the days when freepers were skeptical of politicians and burearcrats.

[lawdude]

"I would think that the author of the editorial would have precidence over some rqg that printed it!"

He wrote it...they own it!

[Burkeman1]

Read some of your stuff in a thread that was pulled last night. I disagree with you on the "quagmire" label for Iraq. True - we are taking 3 to 5 combat deaths a week in Iraq times 2 to 3 wounded. But this may drop fast. You are forgetting the Kosovo and Bosnia models of occupation mastered under Clinton. Clinton knew that Americans would only tolerate troops in Bosnia or Kosovo as long as body bags were not coming home every week. He made this the priotity for our occupations of those lands. Our military, intelligence, and diplomatic corps acted accordingly towards this goal of zero tolerance of casualties. Thus we have troops in Bosnia and Kosovo in remote rural fortresses that cannot be attacked by irregulars at all. When we do patrol it is platoon strength backed up by helicopter gunships. This is like telegraphing to any hostiles for miles around to stay away and is not real "policing" in any sense. Meanwhile the local population is ruled by warlords and crime lords we don't dare touch or bother (and why would we since they keep an "order" of a kind.) The nominal "governments" in Kosovo and Bosnia control nothing outside of the few buildings they "rule" from.

This scenerio could well be put into place in Iraq. We surrender the Iraqi people to the rule of regional thugs and warlords while we set up safe and secure regional bases with all the amenities of home (like camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.) The government of Iraq will control a frew blocks of dowtown Baghadad and the pipelines will be protected by a well paid private guard. And like Pristina in Kosovo- the residents of Baghdad can still expect not to have reliable electricity 5 years from now.

[MEG33]

I can't agree it's boneheaded.My post was in relation to boneheaded questions.I think I am as skeptical as I need to be about politicians and posters.

[ArneFufkin]

And like Pristina in Kosovo- the residents of Baghdad can still expect not to have reliable electricity 5 years from now

Why do you think that?