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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (4456)	2/28/2004 9:25:04 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

We've played our military hand in public and admitted that we needed political help to fix Iraq's security problems. The biggest, richest military the world has ever seen and a rabble of guys with machine guns and soda can IEDs make us run for UN political cover. Our image as a superpower now consists of: - so so military in guerilla situations...again - nuclear war I see nothing in between these two things. We have learned a thing or two from Vietnam but, if we were to fight a whole country in a guerilla war (vs just 5000 insurgents), it looks like we're no better off than before. We've also shown our cards to the world on: - limits to our supplies: running out of small arms ammo, running out of body armour, ineffective boots, gloves, etc. that our guys are buying out of their own pockets. - limits to our intelligence: CIA spy stuff can be knocked about by political yammering - limits to the rest of the world following our lead - limits to our economy being able to fund a war in a single country of 25 million (Afghanistan budget much smaller) - the third world corruption in our administration