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To: Sir Gawain
I wish I had a counter to this article but I don't!

Enough is enough and Powell and his diplomacy at the United Nations can take a hike!

Time to quit having our foreign policy held hostage by the likes of France and the 6 countries that together couldn't equal the firepower of the military right here in Oklahoma with Fort Still, Altus, Tinker, and Vance AFBs not to mention our National Guard and Reserves.
4 posted on 03/14/2003 9:22:16 AM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: PhiKapMom
No such firepower exists; it is theoretical, on paper, I am sorry to inform you.

Worse, what does exist is not sustainable, because we are not geared up to sustain it --- that is by order of the President --- I am also sorry to inform you.

The situation is grim, because he has not involved the American people, in fact he has refused the American people, their need to participate, not merely to cheer on.

American wins when the people are in the fight -- that is why George Washington was a champion of the Congress giving the OK for war.

Cheering, is not being in the fight. At home, being in the fight, is being involved in producing war material and shipping it; this includes full-time participation in building up and maintaining the logistics train --- which I am aware, that you know, this must be done.

We are not doing it.

We are not increasing our airlift capacity as we must for wartime conditions. We are not supporting commercial aviation --- to the contrary, we are letting it lapse.

We should have long ago, by Dec. 2001, been ramping up C-17 "Globemaster" production, but we have not --- that alone, is a serious failure by the President.

If you want to win, call the White House, call the Congress, and demand that the logistics problems be attended to before all else of the "pork" spending and political correctness.

The White House is deaf, so far, to understanding that we need airpower. We need 400 C-17's, so that we can lift a full armor division in a short time of mission cycles. We need tens of thousands of aviation maintenance personnel whom we do not, now have.

I'm sorry to add, we need this plus a lot more, to account for possible material losses --- and that, is something which the White House has also not got a handle on at all.

20 posted on 03/14/2003 10:14:57 AM PST by First_Salute
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To: PhiKapMom
i agree ...im greatly dissapointed in all this ...i keep telling myself something is happening that has required all of the un bs ..but its looking bad for gw
40 posted on 03/14/2003 10:57:05 AM PST by rrrod
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