Yes an apology..........................
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Demanded for intellectual dishonesty..
Hi Thomas nice to see you back after some rest. You guys, all of you, are so great, you make my day in this lonely 3000 m high mountain trail we call 'Fairy Meadow trial,' it takes you in ten days to base station of Nanaga Parbet, one the ten highest peaks in the world. I sit and enjoy the beginning of the trail more adventurous move on to conquer the base station. I need connectivity I will die without one and not talking to al of you will be bad form my health. You wanted apology but I demand one.. please be with me…
With benefit of hindsight and after Fallujah Bilow wants to show that al of us the mortals here that how can he fill the vacancy at the top in Pentagon , is someone listening, after a month if Fallujah if it is still bleeding that would give him another great chance to prove how right he is. I feel so small and so miserable to be tested back on my messages, everything I say according to Bilow is so wrong, however Baghdad had fallen without the war of 70 days, without the thousand casualties that he promised, Iraq today is a functioning country with 100 periodicals and a constitution and a governing council unlike Vietnam but Bilow Fallujah and Sadr commotion was a winner, it will always be any madman can put a spanner in works and Bilow dances on his tail them one he sees some more action that was not a part of our script.
War is ugly and to paint an ugly thing in an optimistic manner and in away that it would conclude is and was our effort, after 12 months to take excerpts out of context is worst intellectual crime. He talks about guerilla warfare but he has been talking about on the doors of Baghdad and warfare that would have destroyed the stretched lines, now that was great nonsense but he can just paint with his broad brush a picture that we need to see. He promised and the great commotion that faces US and Brits on the door of Baghdad, he said Nasseriah is just the first taste it is Baghdad where the great Saddam is strategizing, he was so wrong on that whole scene.
Bilow can do it nice by broad painting, making general assumptions and than turning see I told you so! Boy that is not on, we are no kids here, he needs to deliver far more and needs to swim with the sharks.
On war Bilow was off mark big time. This was Bilow at its best, ¡¥no war in march¡¦ and the war happened <Hey Bilow, aren't u on record saying "no war in March" ?
Try not to shoot yourself in the foot (or worse). >
He paints with a broad brush, his comments on fall of Baghdad and comparison to Beirut was classic bs, Baghdad did fall and Saddam was not their strategizing he was in his hole in Kirkuk..
<Saddam Hussein's only real strategic options are to sit tight in Baghdad and hope that his military can inflict casualties on the US and British forces and slow their progress.>
This was another crux.. the fall of Baghdad. It would take more than 70 days look at this nonsense..< That's right. The Israelis put a siege on a highly divided city 1/4 the population of Baghdad, only 10 square miles in area, with the assistance of one of the local ethnic groups, with supply lines of a tiny fraction of our lines to Kuwait, without our soldier's compunction to avoid civilian casualties, with the limited objective of uprooting a foreign occupier (the PLO, which had "overstayed its welcome in the country") as opposed to a very long time domestic government (the Baathists), with Beirut surrounded on one side by an easy to control water barrier, and the siege nevertheless took 70 days and resulted in a negotiated agreement. The Israeli experience in Lebanon was a disaster not only for them, but also for their Christian allies.
Our problem in Baghdad is harder than the Israeli one in Beirut on every single point of comparison. Baghdad is bigger, the people are more united against us, our war aims are broader, we care more about what the civilians think about us, our supply lines are longer, Americans care less about Iraq than Israelis care about Beirut, our level of protest against the war is much larger than that of the Israeli public, and despite all these advantages that the Israelis had over our situation, it took them 70 days to achieve only a negotiated settlement.
ƒÞ Carl >
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About the war itself he never thought that war will ever happen wrong again <I said that a war with Iraq was impossible because it would be a military, political and diplomatic disaster, and that the administration knew this and that it was therefore impossible and they must be bluffing. At the same time that I was saying that 250,000 soldiers was barely sufficient to attack Iraq, the neoconservatives were saying that the war would be fully prosecuted by a handful of special forces.>
You want to read more of his strategic bs, look at this great vision as forces move toward Baghdad guerilla warfare will start, it did not Baghdad had fallen like a ripe mango in the laps of the US Army.
<That's right. That's the best gloss that the BBC can put on things. The fact is that as we move towards Baghdad, our supply lines get stretched through more and more crowded parts of Iraq and we are more subject to guerilla warfare. This sucks.>
Now after nearly a year he emerges from the shadows and he tells everyone after Fallujah that I told you so, he told us about guerilla warfare and huge war in Baghdad and more than 70 days war for Baghdad, he told us about stretched lines and destruction of British and US army by the Iraqis at the gates of Baghdad, all that only happened in his sweet dreams.
While all that nonsense was going at that time and Baghdad had fallen as comedian Sahaf was telling Billow that tanks are not around we kept quiet and he disappeared, now with Fallujah and Sadr billow brings his old batteries back, but the argument is so self serving and so shallow that I feel like telling him can you really convince yourself that you were on the ball.
With hindsight and a broad-brush he now takes out the most appropriate portions of his post to show what a Eisenhower he is, however, his whole big picture on timing of the war, the beginning of the war and close of the great war as Baghdad fall was way offside, on issue as to new resistance these are new developments and need new light to be shed.
We are ordinary people here unlike the great Khan Bilow, he is the greatest thinker that US Army would ever dream off but he is a Monday morning quarter back and he abuses real fine, he abuses the entire family, the kids I wish I could ever reproduce the greatest classic that was removed from SI, he is not civil and he is impolite and he is very flimsy. Look at his non sense on ¡¥voodoo statistics¡¦ only a kid on the block can make such a mistake, you liberal chain pat each other back so much that the wound drip blood from backside, give your whole group some time and rest Thomas and just take it easy, we are no ¡¥Ike¡¦s here and we make a lot of mistakes like Bilow does. But on that broad picture the difference is that we see a cup full he sees it half empty. |
