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Let me answer with the statement....
"if we had only known"
1. If we had known in WW2 that we were losing 30 ships per week in our convoys to Europe along with most of their crews, instead of the 2 per week reported by the Press.
What do you think would have happened to the morale of all the workers building them here, or to their crews. ?
2. If the German sub crews had known how many subs they were losing, and that over 90% were die in a watery grave what would it do to their morale.?
3. Does it matter what FDR had in mind when he declared war, or started a war, or suckered Japan into starting a war?
Was there an alternate way we could have stayed out of the conflict when Hitler was on the verge of invading Britain.?
4. Should we have told the truth to the troops taking one island in the Pacific that the Japanese troops were ferocious warriers, that 20000 of our soldiers would be lost in taking the island, that 3 days of naval and air bombardment would have little effect since they were dug in so deep. ?
5. Should we have told our aviators in WW1 that their average life in combat would be 3 days?
In a war morale and confidence is everything.
Without it all is lost. Saddam had 800,000 tons of weapons and did not get to use them because the shock and awe campaign broke their will to fight.
Now the important question to ask is "are we at war"?
We are trying to conduct this war on terror with scaring the H%%l out of our own people. So that our economy can survive and prosper because its going to be a long war.
We have been told of the seriousness of this war, but there are still plenty of non-believers .It is not important to figure how we got here except for writing history books or
studying how to avoid wars.
We have had some big wars, the War to End all Wars, the Iraeli / Pal conflict continues unabated. Africa is a powder keg. Has all the learning about the horrors of war ended
conflicts? There were 77 active wars in 1997.
Trains are being blown up in Spain, in France, 20 tons of explosives are found in Turkey, or 5 truck loads in SA, or plans for further destruction in Spain found in the terrorists belongings.
We are missing some big buildings and uncovering numerous plots by Al Queda cells. The train incident in N Korea gives a clue to how much destruction can be caused by a train wreck.
The old motto, "Loose Lips Sink Ships" had true meaning- if the German subs knew when a convoy was leaving, and the route it would take that convoy is "history".
Or a soldier writes home: " Dear Folks. We are shipping out tomorrow. I have heard that we are sending a fake invasion force to Calais, but that was just to fool the Germans we are really going to Normandy"
How would you like to see that info written up in a newspaper by the Press in using their guaranteed freedom of speech?
In conclusion each person has to decide- are we at war or not and how serious is the war?.
I happen to see it one way, others another way. The Administration is being very open about our operations in Iraq. But the Press is not being allowed to hear about all the terrorist threats that are being intercepted or being planned lest it give away our sources and aid the enemy.
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