Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (85966)	11/13/2004 5:06:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793963

We should have leveled the place. We have lost 24 troopers, and a couple of hundred wounded because we are being too "PC" about it. The JAG's and others who are pushing this approach are in the rear with the gear. Really pisses me off. We must have political support from the majority of the Iraqis. We didn't have it in April. Now we do, because the Iraqis are fed up with kidnappings and car bombs, and they know where they are coming from. But we have to avoid providing Al Jazeera with the pics of dead kids if we can avoid it. So far we have done well, Al Jazeera is reduced to wailing about the "humanitarian crisis inside Fallujah". It was good that most of the civilians left beforehand, even if did allow many of the muj to leave too. It was also good that we took the main hospital straight off, so the Al Jazeera reporters could not park themselves in front of a doctor under insurgent control. Best of all, Sistani has said nothing, and his silence speaks volumes. But we have to fight PC, and show that we are trying hard not to kill women and kids. There is no way to avoid it; the press is a major front in every war these days.