Posted on 04/27/2003 7:56:08 PM PDT by Greybird
Which "real army" are you referring to?
I rather like Eurinals.
This ain't a pro-war or pro-Bush Website, either. It's tagged "Defending the Constitution." Including the phrase "The Congress shall have power [...] to declare war."
I've been here four years. I opposed Clinton's unconstitutional bombing of Serbia. I opposed Bush's unconstitutional (and Congressionally connived) usurpation of the warmaking power. You need a few around here who remind of you of this, or you're gonna forget what the concepts of consistency and fidelity to principle stand for.
Only that long? It seems like forever.
Ah, yes, lectures on kindness towards foreigners from descendants of the Conquistadores and the Inquisitors...so edifying.
Lingers like a bad beer fart.
If they think that's bad they should see how many Americans and Brits die while driving on American and Brit roads in the same time period.
Or how many people died daily from being suspended on a rope by the Iraqi regime, or were blown to bits by Iraqi-backed palestinian suicide bombers.
Come to think of it, how many palestinians blow themselves up because of inept bomb-making practices? We hear about them cooking off fairly regularly...
~ America's "smart weapons" proved not to be so smart, and instead caused horrifying destruction in marketplaces, buses, maternity wards, and civilian neighborhoods.
Yeah, right...did you hear all of that from Baghdad Bob, the guy who claime Iraqi forces had taken the Baghdad Airport rigtht about the time an Iraqi officer was sitting in the airport as a "guest" of the new occupants- the US- asking anyone who will listen "how long has he [Iraqi info minister] been lying like that? That was almost as horrifying as the "air raid shelter" over the command bunker idea in the first Gulf War, you know the one where the Iraqis got all sorts of Eurosnot sympathy when it was Iraq's problem they used people as human shields? It was really horrifying recently that Iraqi leaders decided to blow up the Shiite markets to kill two birds with one stone. Almost as horrifying as all those thousands of graves out there of political dissidents which don't raise a single European brow, since those deaths were pretty much bought and paid for with Francs.
It's funny how the foreign press- at least that part of it read by idiots belonging to "veterans for peace" , ie., "dishonorably discharged rejects for peace" or even "Mukhabaret Veterans for Peace," or "French veterans for peace " - didn't mention a single incident of Iraqi antiaircraft missiles falling on civilians, yet we know this is more likely to happen. Antiaircraft weapons shot into the air are far more numerous than incoming missiles, and have to fall somewhere. Since they are defensive weapons deployed in urban settings, it is natural for them to fall on civilians when they fail to intercept their targets. Owing to the nature of what we were dropping and sending, their antiaircraft weapons missed a LOT, and therefore fell upon their own kin.
You would think that the Europeans could grasp such a basic concepts before they go shooting off their mouths...
~ The Tomahawk missile system had to be taken offline not because it was missing its targets but because it was missing the entire country of Iraq(!) and instead landing in Saudi, Jordanian, and Syrian territories.
So, how could a cruise missile blow up a market in Iraq if it couldn't even hit the country? At least try to be consistant...
By the way, which country's troops are occupying Iraq's capital city? Which country's troops are sitting in Saddam Hussein's palaces? I didn't see the Fedeyeen munching MRE's in the White House...
~ The quick advances and welcoming crowds predicted by the Rumsfield cabal did not materialize,
They most certainly did. Have the Europeans been living in a rabbit hole?
and a panicked American military had to call for reinforcements of 120,000 new troops after only a few days of fighting.
For an article taken from a web site claiming to be associated with "veterans," they sure don't know diddly squat about the military. The "reinforcements" they are referring to were part of the original deployment of forces- indeed, they were called up BEFORE the war began. I doubt seriously that we panicked before the fact when we called them up before the war...
We called up others too and ended up not using them. Yawnnnnnn.....
"Ah, yes, lectures on kindness towards foreigners from descendants of the Conquistadores and the Inquisitors...so edifying."
A better type than those that see the death of a child as winning the battle.
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