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To: kattracks
This is crying over spilled milk, but i repeat that the moment Turkey hinted at denial of passage the 4ID should have immediately been routed to Kuwait.Playing these diplomatic games has cost time and it may cost lives.1st MEF is as fine a light infantry division as exists, but to ask it to do the same job as 3ID is very poor strategy.Perhaps it would have been better to exchange 1st MEF with the Brits. Add the 82nd's brigade to the Brits as extra infantry and that would have put two heavy divisions in line aon the road to Baghdad. Or give 1st MEF some Challengers to augment their limited Abrams units.. This is armchair posturing, but I find it frustrating tosee us go to war living on the edge.

While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam? We have no attack zones, no attack locations etc. Didn't we learn anything from the days we risked planes and crew to attack truck parks while ships unloaded military supplies in Haiphong without so much as an air raid warning.?

4 posted on 03/26/2003 5:04:22 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65
While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam?

Not even remotely. Quit your whining.

6 posted on 03/26/2003 5:17:04 AM PST by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: xkaydet65
don't mind Coop. He's a mindless shill. As for your comment, I wish I could dismiss it as easily as the drone did. Straightjacking the airforce target list, putting military strategy under PC guidlines and trying to play liberator when the only reason we should be there is to eliminate WMD, all that makes me a bit uneasy.
7 posted on 03/26/2003 5:41:23 AM PST by KantianBurke (The Federal govt should be protecting us from terrorists, not handing out goodies)
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To: xkaydet65
While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam?

What color is the sky in your world?

8 posted on 03/26/2003 5:55:30 AM PST by cyncooper ("Some of the Iraqis... 'told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start.'")
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To: xkaydet65
>>>This is crying over spilled milk, but i repeat that the moment Turkey hinted at denial of passage the 4ID should have immediately been routed to Kuwait<<<<

I agree 100%-To carry it a little further-As the 4th was being moved for the South-Another Unit, possibly either of the 2 divisions from Europe could have been gotten ready for a Turkey front in case it became available.
9 posted on 03/26/2003 5:59:29 AM PST by RugerM77
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