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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (2482)	10/13/2001 11:55:34 AM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

There is such a thing as too much info. I especially disliked the leak about Bush blowing up at Congress about leaks from those assholes we elect. Now he has had to back off because he tried to cut the biggest mouths out of the loop. The problem with this operation is that there isn't a lot of info to be had about Special Forces operations; they're supposed to be secret, some forever. We know all about what we have done overtly. It's just that we are only flying as many sorties in a week as we did in an hour in Desert Storm. We even had press people capturing prisoners. Remember the incident where a reporter, with a cameraman and soundman went out in a jeep and came back with something like a 100 or 400 Iraqi's who surrendered to them as fast as they could. They were babbling something about the "Bush" man. There are 30,000 Americans and maybe 5,000-10,000 others compared to 500,000 in Desert Storm. Not much news to be had without a much bigger air war and no ground invasion. We've bombed 85% of what they have already and most of it resulted in an improvement in property values.<g> But this one will last more than three weeks, so keep your spirits up. Us news junkies will eventually get our fill.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (2482)	10/13/2001 12:03:48 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

I agree about Bush. He showed a lot more maturity than Clinton <even though clinton was cuter -g-> But ya know, I'm kinda surprised at the continuous bombing too. In Iraq we had specific targets to be hit. Cities, factories, airports etc. Out in Afghanistan, there is nothing. The militants live in tents or mud houses. Its not that their training centres are state of the art buildings with computerised facilities like Saddam had. They're a few tents, a few sandbags and posts on which they hang stuff for target practice. Their communication is primarily thru cellphones. There are a few trees on which they train to climb ropes and stuff. And the guys don't even live there now, since most of the 'good stuff' is said to be in the caves, so it'd be nice to know what the allied forces are pounding and how much progress is being made ?