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To: marty60
Well I saw his WIFE this AM on GMA, she was neither worried or uneasy at all about his safety. If fact she was quite smug and talked about how proud she was at what he did.

The one I heard on the radio was his EX-wife. She was not at all surprised by his question or direct attitude. Perhaps you misunderstood her reaction, if this was the same woman.

From my stand point we have the wrong tool, with the wrong edge, doing their best at the wrong job.

Armies aren't for "nation building".

Humvee's weren't designed to do this work; nor designed to be quickly modified and neither were the troops. They are doing a yeoman's job, but we should have had a better monopoly on violence at the end of the war. To avoid civilian causalities, and perhaps in hope of a better nature amongst the liberated, we waged a "modern" war and not a Sherman War: a war to take their will and ability to wage war away.

Masefield is telling a straight truth, you go with what you have. Soldiers can take the truth. Civilians can't, and won't.

790 posted on 12/09/2004 3:31:41 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: KC Burke

" Soldiers can take the truth. Civilians can't, and won't."



I wholeheartedly agree.

We civilians expect war to be somewhat like a video game- it's madness to have the attitude we have.


796 posted on 12/09/2004 3:48:16 PM PST by SE Mom (God Bless our troops.)
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To: KC Burke
It was on GMA, as I do my morning stuff, i have one ear on the tv. I thought blondie said his wife. May be wrong. she just seem to smug compared to the other Wives, Mother i've seen on TV. Hummmm, may well have been X.

I just can't take the Ratmedia giving aid and comfort to the enemy. I really think some of them would actually give coordinates to the terrorist.

828 posted on 12/09/2004 4:43:11 PM PST by marty60
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