[First_Salute]

Contrary to the blowhards who think that we have enough people in Iraq, because, according to them, we have enough prescient combat power ... we actually do need quite a lot more men on the ground and especially in the bush, scattered along all the routes that we travel, so as to capture or pick off terrorists.

This is S.O.P.

For the "suits" to now wonder about how we need such people, points out how the "suits" of the Bush [still running 39% of the Clinton] Administration is not yet with the program.

The terrorists should be looking over their shoulders.

They are not looking over their shoulders.

The "experts" in "suits" should know this, they should have planned well ahead for this.

They did not, as usual.

That, among many other features, was, and is, Vietnam.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Your claim that this was and is Vietnam is way out of line.

From a sniper standpoint, you're off the paper. To begin with, we were attacked first on our home soil.

Second, we are in a desert, we have mechanized armory, and we are not carpet-bombing the civilians or the outlying terrain blindly. (jungle)

Thirdly, we have removed the leadership of the country and are ready to replace it with a more acceptable form of government.

This is not, nor will it ever be another Vietnam. You are more than likely saying this because you have no clue what Vietnam was or is because you were never there. If you had been there, you would not have even let the thought cross your mind.

[Coop]

I will presume by your screen name that you know that military commanders, not the civilian suits you blamed in such a "blowhard" fashion, determined the troop strength in Iraq.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

The difference between Vietnam and Iraq is the "suits" today are Rumsfeld and his close allies are "micro managing" the transformation of the military into something different. Leaner, faster, pick your buzz phrase.

The Army is fighting this all the way like only a military beauracracy can.

The micro-managing during Vietnam was LBJ literally planning bombing runs whereas now the imposed limitations aren'e coming from the Oval Office but the Generals themselves.