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Lieutenant Colonel Jay Stout, United States Marine Corps (Ret.), commented on why there has been a so-called "delay" before ground forces move on Baghdad:So our F-18's can go in and "pound them into hair, teeth, and eyeballs." I nearly fell off the couch.Compare this patriot's comments to David Hackworth's last night on Larry King:

KING: Colonel Hackworth, have you been proven right based on your criticism the last two nights because the reports are contradictory? COL. DAVID HACKWORTH, U.S. ARMY (RET.): Well, my sources are there and they're not the spinners that belong to the liar's club, and I check with them and they tell me what's going on and it's not like being on the battlefield but my sources are young officers who really know what's going on and they're only interested in one thing is keeping their troops alive. The bottom line is Saddam is saying, said years ago publicly he was...

French military history in a nutshell. 02/24/2003, Volume 008, Issue 23 Editor's Note: The e-mail was drawn from the excellent work of Sid Stafford. You can read his original here: [http://silflayhraka.blogspot.com/2003_01_19_silflayhraka_archive.html#90229835]