Posted on 08/30/2003 5:23:01 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
AUG 29, 2003
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We are not alone, after all.
As of this week, there were 136,000 U.S. troops and 22,000 troops from 28 countries in Iraq. That's right. Twenty-eight. Not two. Not three. Not ten. Dutch and Italian forces are currently assisting at Tallil - where Chromey is stationed - and are taking on more responsibilities. Why then the talk of needing an Official UN Permission Slip? If I understand the so-called predicament correctly, the US is seeking a UN mandate in order to say it's 'OK' for everyone to actually be there in an attempt to make the more faint-at-heart countries feel warm and squishy about sending troops to Iraq. But the UN doesn't want to play unless they can put A Very Important UN Person in charge of operations. Like THAT'S ever gonna happen. Call me extreme, but if the UN were in control of US troops, the first thing they'd do is take all the bullets out of all the guns. Soldiers might as well lay down and die. I'm not kidding. Can you imagine all the political correctness that would go on there? What a nightmare. Then out of nowhere, France has the gall to open it's big fat shamefaced mouth to suggest that Iraq could fall into 'anarchy' unless all power is transferred to UN authority. Hello. France needs to just sit it's pathetic derriere down and shut up. They have their own major catastrophe to deal with. This is what happens as a result of socialism. Even Chirac has admitted the shortcomings in their health organization. How does the death of 10,000 elderly go completely unnoticed by an entire country - until it's too late? Where was I? Oh yes, the UN. The only reason why the UN exists is to seek enough power to rival the US as a superpower. That's it. Nothing else. Human Rights and all that preposterous hoo haa they claim they do for the world? Just a front to appear legitimate. Don't even get me started.
It's high time we got the US out of the UN.
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That's the way it is. (^:
Our military leaders are amazing men. They know the score. They know the enemy - both foreign and domestic.
The unelected, unaccountable press, pols, retired military, think tank meddlers, accusers and so-called experts could all learn from the real men and women SUCCESSFULLY running and fighting this war if they'd simply listen to them, and start paying attention to what's happening on the ground across Iraq.
This morn. my pic was a red "X". Now it's back. My thanks to the host.
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