To: Richnorth who wrote (97164 ) 1/31/2004 12:05:52 AM From: d:oug Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116764 [prez bush] to fulfill [mission] American [Christian] empire - The USSR "empire" crumbled, and later found it couldn't fight its way out of a wet paper bag (Afghanistan) using conventional old rusty equipment & unpayed troops. - The USA went into Afghanistan with crisp new $100 bills & troops having new high tech weapons and kicked butt. - Onto Iraq, this prez bush of a prez bush did go. Into Iraq, a two finger shot of the hard stuff. Inside Iraq, the two fingers slipped inside with no effort. Control Iraq, (1950s song) "easier said then done" - Reality Check: re: Vietnam My tour there in 67-69 started 2 weeks before that campaign called Teck or something that described a holiday there, and that defeat for the north was described as a total failure in the military arena, but a brilliant political victory that demostrated in clear terms to the USA populace that they will never fulfill their quest as an invading army to place those people having a thousand years of unbroken history to make an foreign occupation suffer without end, no matter the length or space controled by them, they will never walk in safety, and forever they will need to send in more of its youth of boys into men to meet death away from their home that has no threat from that foreign land, except when they leave home and the land of their USA country and arrive in another foreign land with gun locked & loaded to protect themselves by pointing it towards the citizens of that foreign land, all in the name to "free" them. - How many troops died in Iraq so far? 250? In what, how many months? About the rate American troops died in Vietnam per day? The pain is low outside the families of those 250. The American plan is based on a 4 year cycle. The time for the usa prez to get relected. Iraq has no time table, only thousands of years of history, and another thousand years of history to be made. If prez bush gets relected, Iraq will run in blood, and the USA will run away later than sooner. If prez bush don't get elected, the USA will run away sooner than later. Either way, new crisp $100 bills used years ago will have been spent and replaced with new crisp $100 bills unable to do any more damage. aka The USA will mirror the USSR