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To: one_less who wrote (47248)	5/26/2004 9:01:38 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

not stuck at all in VietNam protest era instead, alarmed at the ignorance of a repeated VNam except this one is an order of magnitude more dangerous combine crude oil with religious fanatacism what alarms me is guys like you and your blindness so now you dismiss my points as VNam redux ??? take a look at parallels that is, if you can take the time to be objective similar mistakes are being made one that pisses me off is the heightened motivation to lose more precious soldier lives so that the previous losses were not in vain THEY ARE ALL IN VAIN I BRING UP HISTORICAL COMPARISONS BECAUSE IF HISTORY IS NOT LEARNED, IT IS THEN REPEATED case in point, credit expansion and subsequent depression case in point, entering a civil war and subsequent military losss take a gander at something I have collected and saved sincerely, jim -------------------------------------------------------- a big big similarity of entering a civil war we don’t understand use civilians as human shields enemy has no helicopters, no airplanes, no artillery, no communications dont bother with uniforms, so we cannot recognize the enemy many parallels with VietNam, and a few similarities at least we dont need Agent Orange to clear the desert brush replace SLOPEHEADS with RAGHEADS replace HoChiMinh with Saddam replace Neighbor China with Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf Emirates replace Communism Halt with Islamic Fundamentalism Halt replace Monsoons with SandStorms replace Tet New Year with Ramaddan replace Buddhist monks with Muslim Mullahs replace Buddhist immolation sacrifices with Muslim suicide bombers replace Bonzai with Jihad replace booby trap deaths with RPG and bomb attack deaths replace DeMilitarizedZone (DMZ) with Saudi restrictions replace the Delta with the Gulf replace Viet Cong infiltrators with Al Qaeda infiltrators replace Russian/Chinese Suppliers with Russian/Chinese Suppliers replace Collateral Peasants with Collateral Muslims replace Combodian Triangle CIA heroin with Afghan CIA heroin replace sirhans with togas and headdress replace oxen with camels same confusion with enemy in uniforms and in civilian clothes same bullshit managed news reporting on the war same nonsensical moral high ground claimed same absurd misjudging of manpower, costs, timetable, greeting by locals same pushbutton killing with technology same monstrous 100:1 death counts same 500,000 soldiers before long same crippling costs to federal budgets instead of using chemical weapons (napalm & agent orange), we cannot find chemical weapons much bigger stakes !!! add in explosive oil region issues, and religious zealotry we dont repeat history we dont learn from history either history rhymes same price inflation in a couple years / jim

To: one_less who wrote (47248)	5/26/2004 9:07:12 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

VietNam dismissal is more evidence of your shallowness do you have enough rational makeup to examine these? promise of WMD -- none found promise of self-paid war costs from oil -- production down promise of little US taxpayer costs -- $40B + $78B so far promise of short war -- ongoing & worsening promise of democracy -- Shiite majority now seen as untrustworthy promise of more security -- increase in public crime promise of police force -- total joke, cut & run promise of ended Saddam torture -- we are the torturers promise of crude oil back to $20 -- try $40 the item insufficiently reported in my view is the alarming rise in public crime e.g. rape, robbery, assault the perpetrators are no longer Feddayeen, but fellow citizens apart from Saddam's removal, NOTHING POSITIVE except the widespread liberty, which is good excuse me, but that must include liberty to bomb council leaders, to kill US soldiers like in a carnival gallery, to kidnap contract workers, and to be tortured in prison WHAT STRIKES ME AS CLEAR IS YOUR INEPT ABILITY TO ARGUE on the high school forensic team, you dont even make 3rd string arguing with you is like with a 7-yr old kid / jim (Brilliant Stone of the East... jeez)