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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (17078)4/15/2003 5:21:23 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
that is why
we shredded them from the air, so as to minimize USArmy casualties

OF COURSE, STUPID! While I'm sure you would feel better if tens of thousands of body bags were coming back, the rest of us wouldn't.

Intelligent military leadership consists of destroying the enemy forces with a minimum of damage to your own forces. That is what good generalship IS!

RG numbered at least 500,000 in all
no way Jose did even half of them want to be there

Republican Guard? They were supposed to be the elite of the Iraqi army, weren't they? What you are claiming is the equivalent of a US trooper being forced into the Green Berets. It don't happen that way.

why dont US Networks report that battlefield Iraqi deaths numbered between 75,000 and 100,000 ???
I don't know. Why don't they? Maybe because it's not true?
And so what? This is war. You do what you must do to make the other guy surrender. If he won't surrender you kill him. You think it's better to let him kill you?

the five Arab Networks are reporting it
And they tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth all the time, right?
They have NO vested interest in lying?

IT IS A TESTAMENT TO OUR CRUELTY, DEHUMANIZATION OF THE ENEMY, AND OUR ATROCITIES
Nope. It is a testament to decades of work and a well planned and executed war.

congratulations on a victory over a helpless enemy fighting with rifles pointed at their backs
Ah, may I be so impolite as to point out those were not OUR guns pointed at their backs?

THe use of "combat police" is fairly common in war by dictatorships. Their purpose is to force the troops to fight and kill them if they won't.

this should have been fought with 2000 Special Forces working undercover or under the cover of darkness
Well, brilliant leader and big man, why didn't you offer to lead the charge?
Too easy to sit back here and carp?

we have alienated the Axis in Europe
Certainly an appropriate use of words there. One of the original Axis powers was that current whiner, Germany, then a brutal, butchering dictatorship itself.
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