Yup, whattheheck, “...the whole country is so different now…”; you said a mouthful alright!
I’m repeatedly dismayed.
Seems to me that getting involved with the military these days ought to be likened to getting involved with hard drugs.
You sure better know all the facts before you drop, because you’ll be done with IT a hell of a lot quicker than it’ll be done with YOU!
Posted by Kuya on Apr 24, 2007 at 1:35 AM
Hi,y’all!
So sad, especially since the republicans have mustered under the standard of"support our troops!”.
I wonder how much solace one gains from a yellow ribbon after one has lost a limb, or loved one, in a ridiculous war fought by an ill-equipped army, commanded by a Secretary of Defense who says “you go to war with army you got”. Incidentally, Rummy, which party was it that said “WAR!, WAR!,WAR!,NOW!, NOW!, NOW!
Then again, GI’s were not big campaign contributors, so the republicans dismissed them as inconsequential.
Also, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to some of the Iraq War veterans. If one thinks that Vietnam veterans were clannish and felt angrily betrayed, then, sadly, one will get to see even more so of the same.
All of this because of a group who place business interests above the public interest.
Spare us the WMD argument.(OH, yes,yes, I’ve heard the right-wing red herring of us finding mortar rounds containing nerve gas.It’s not the same thing compared to the nuclear weapons the BU**SH** administration used to scare us. It’s rather like comparing an air-rifle to a cannon.) There weren’t any. Not since Saddam Hussein used the ones we sold him. That’s not to belittle the thre hundred tons of high explosives the Iraqis stole from weapons depots atn the outset of the war. The theft of which this administration has pooh-poohed despite the very likely supposition that those explosives are being used to make IED’s, and probably will for the next century, or until we leave.
Ta-Ta!
Posted by Aunty Rightwing on Apr 25, 2007 at 9:37 PM
Kuya, Aunty,
The explosives were able to be stolen because we had only enough forces to rush into the oil fields before Saddam blew them. According to Gen. DeLong, second in command of CENTCOM under Gen.Tommy Franks we managed to prevent all but two from blowing. There were around 5,000 wells with charges.
This also allowed the looting to take place. Remember the TVs and other stuff taken during the US rioting in the ‘60s? I guess Rummy didn’t.
Gen. Michael DeLong also says in his book (A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ) that before we went in we had photos showing the contents of two chemical plants being trucked to Syria. Separately the items could be used for a variety of peaceful products. Combined properly they could make nerve gas.
He said technically they were not WMD unless combined AND put into a delivery system
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Kuya,
Yup, whattheheck, “...the whole country is so different now…”; you said a mouthful alright!
I’m repeatedly dismayed.
Seems to me that getting involved with the military these days ought to be likened to getting involved with hard drugs.
You sure better know all the facts before you drop, because you’ll be done with IT a hell of a lot quicker than it’ll be done with YOU!
Hi,y’all!
So sad, especially since the republicans have mustered under the standard of"support our troops!”.
I wonder how much solace one gains from a yellow ribbon after one has lost a limb, or loved one, in a ridiculous war fought by an ill-equipped army, commanded by a Secretary of Defense who says “you go to war with army you got”. Incidentally, Rummy, which party was it that said “WAR!, WAR!,WAR!,NOW!, NOW!, NOW!
Then again, GI’s were not big campaign contributors, so the republicans dismissed them as inconsequential.
Also, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to some of the Iraq War veterans. If one thinks that Vietnam veterans were clannish and felt angrily betrayed, then, sadly, one will get to see even more so of the same.
All of this because of a group who place business interests above the public interest.
Spare us the WMD argument.(OH, yes,yes, I’ve heard the right-wing red herring of us finding mortar rounds containing nerve gas.It’s not the same thing compared to the nuclear weapons the BU**SH** administration used to scare us. It’s rather like comparing an air-rifle to a cannon.) There weren’t any. Not since Saddam Hussein used the ones we sold him. That’s not to belittle the thre hundred tons of high explosives the Iraqis stole from weapons depots atn the outset of the war. The theft of which this administration has pooh-poohed despite the very likely supposition that those explosives are being used to make IED’s, and probably will for the next century, or until we leave.
Ta-Ta!
Kuya, Aunty,
The explosives were able to be stolen because we had only enough forces to rush into the oil fields before Saddam blew them. According to Gen. DeLong, second in command of CENTCOM under Gen.Tommy Franks we managed to prevent all but two from blowing. There were around 5,000 wells with charges.
This also allowed the looting to take place. Remember the TVs and other stuff taken during the US rioting in the ‘60s? I guess Rummy didn’t.
Gen. Michael DeLong also says in his book (A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ) that before we went in we had photos showing the contents of two chemical plants being trucked to Syria. Separately the items could be used for a variety of peaceful products. Combined properly they could make nerve gas.
He said technically they were not WMD unless combined AND put into a delivery system
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