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The relative ease of capturing Saddam will not play out the same way for the Al Quaeda Terrorists. Unlike Saddam the Al Quaeda Terrorists are not pampered and "Cultured" like the Iraquis are. They are different in many un conventional ways.

Al Quaeda fighters are similar to the soldiers of Imperial Japan in WWII. The Bushido Code of fanatism best matches their style of War. This contrasts un-favorably with our style that more closely matches up with nation states such as Iraq. Vietnam posed a similiar set of circumstances and to this day we still have not mastered those tactics to successfully defeat a guerilla military force. We are learning but time is not our friend.

This is hampering our operations against Al Quaeda today. Saddam was soft as a creme puff but the Al Quaeda soldiers are battle hardened and tough to defeat in their realm. Running up and down remote High Mountain Terrain at extreme altitudes takes conditioning we don't provide our main line troops. We have a few selected battallions but their entire battle force is climatized where we are not! This gives them a distinct advantage and tenacity that we will have to work hard to match!

We will be challenged to meet seeming un-surmountable goals and battle plans if we are to prevail in this new war!

Thanks for the reminder of the tough times ahead, winker.

Guard members from 19 states went to Afghanistan last month to train the Afghan army. I don't think our troops are underestimating Al Qaeda. They did rid the terrorist cell of a few thousand members in late 2001, and would no doubt do it again if necessary.

Our troops in Iraq are suffering, and learning, too. Saddam is not the norm.

NEVER FORGET

...Actually, it's pretty much nosensical to say that the USA hasn't mastered how to fight an Anti-Guerilla War. In the Vietnam War Helicopter Airmobility worked just fine, thank you. I know, 'cause I was there at the very start. It won every Battle there, including my U.S. 7th Air Cavalry's Battle of the IA DRANG Valley in November 1965 ...as depicted in MEL GIBSON's outstanding recent Motion Picture:

.."WE WERE SOLDIERS"

http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com

...What the USA has not yet fully mastered is how to deal with
a lying Media that works on behalf of our Enemies Within and Without ...to do US in.

...T'is a pity that we can't afford to not hold these liars accountable for this any longer after the Attacks of September 11, 2001 and the threat of more such Attacks on US here at home in the future.

Time to:

NAIL WALTER CRONKITE
NAIL DAN RATHER
NAIL TOM BROKAW
NAIL PETER JENNINGS,

Friends of HILLARY all.

Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer / Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
(Photos)

NEVER FORGET