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Post #181,444
by deSitter
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10/28/04 12:39:16 PM
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New Well the beloved troops are pretty damned incompetent
Surprise! A lot of worthless Pentagoners backed up by punk rockers with tanks. They'd get their asses handed to them in a real fight.
-drl
Post #181,445
by admin
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10/28/04 12:43:22 PM
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New Some of them are.
Like in any enterprise.

There are a lot of very good people over there (my brother-in-law was one of them). You rarely hear about people doing their jobs well. But put good people in a bad situation and you still have a bad situation.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #181,455
by deSitter
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10/28/04 1:06:34 PM
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New Citizen soldiers
Large standing professional armies FAIL. You win by having something real to win, and citizens with a personal stake.
-drl
Post #181,472
by ChrisR
10/28/04 1:51:56 PM
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New Vietnam was not a military failure
And neither is Iraq. The problem lies within political domain.
Post #181,478
by deSitter
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10/28/04 1:58:13 PM
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New I vehemently disagree
Great officers are boiled out of the morass of pukes by actual war. Neither Iraq nor Vietnam can be called actual war, so the pukes are in charge. The grunt has his limited view in all cases. His morale depends on having a definite goal and good leadership. That will never happen in Iraq, just as it never happened in Vietnam. (Isolated cases like Col. Moore at Dien Bien Phu do not count.)
-drl
     Incompetent Coalitioners lose 400 tons of go-boom - (deSitter) - (33) - Oct. 25, 2004, 09:22:46 AM EDT
         So nice that we're safer. -NT - (imric) - Oct. 25, 2004, 09:27:03 AM EDT
         More on CNN - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Oct. 25, 2004, 12:39:15 PM EDT
             Bat? He'd use a BB gun -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 25, 2004, 12:42:25 PM EDT
                 Chainsaw. - (inthane-chan) - Oct. 25, 2004, 12:43:05 PM EDT
         About those missing explosives at al Qaqqaa - (marlowe) - (4) - Oct. 25, 2004, 03:47:18 PM EDT
             Agreement...but as Scott McClellan has pointed out... - (Simon_Jester) - Oct. 25, 2004, 05:19:08 PM EDT
             Read above - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 25, 2004, 05:30:35 PM EDT
                 There was... but wrong hands. -NT - (xtensive) - Oct. 25, 2004, 06:27:25 PM EDT
             Little time to debunk - (ChrisR) - Oct. 28, 2004, 04:27:04 PM EDT
         The incredible shrinking explosives looting scandal - (marlowe) - (23) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:10:03 PM EDT
             It's a stupid point to make a fuss over. - (admin) - (10) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:13:45 PM EDT
                 Because Kerry hopes to get mileage out of it. - (marlowe) - (9) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:21:19 PM EDT
                     No doubt he hopes to. - (admin) - (5) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:24:11 PM EDT
                         Well the beloved troops are pretty damned incompetent - (deSitter) - (4) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:39:16 PM EDT
                             Some of them are. - (admin) - (3) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:43:22 PM EDT
                                 Citizen soldiers - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 28, 2004, 01:06:34 PM EDT
                                     Vietnam was not a military failure - (ChrisR) - (1) - Oct. 28, 2004, 01:51:56 PM EDT
                                         I vehemently disagree - (deSitter) - Oct. 28, 2004, 01:58:13 PM EDT
                     Interesting...bot is full of Write-Only Memory (WOM) - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 28, 2004, 12:52:59 PM EDT
                         Syntax Error. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Oct. 28, 2004, 01:36:51 PM EDT
                             Thanx- - (jb4) - Oct. 28, 2004, 02:09:20 PM EDT
             Curiouser and Curiouser - ABC News you say? - (Simon_Jester) - (11) - Oct. 28, 2004, 06:15:56 PM EDT
                 little phil needs better proof than ABC -NT - (daemon) - (10) - Oct. 28, 2004, 06:49:51 PM EDT
                     How about Fox news? - (Silverlock) - (9) - Oct. 28, 2004, 09:31:41 PM EDT
                         No, it hasnt been approved by either Karl, Rove or Marx -NT - (daemon) - (8) - Oct. 28, 2004, 10:06:32 PM EDT
                             Will you please quit putting Marx in with those guys? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (7) - Oct. 29, 2004, 11:49:15 AM EDT
                                 Yeah, keep Zeppo out of it! -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Oct. 29, 2004, 12:38:40 PM EDT
                                     moffo is a Groucho Marxist -NT - (deSitter) - Oct. 29, 2004, 12:40:11 PM EDT
                                 Re: Will you please quit putting Marx in with those guys? - (daemon) - (4) - Oct. 29, 2004, 06:02:57 PM EDT
                                     Not even close. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - Oct. 31, 2004, 10:55:11 AM EST
                                         Saw all the movies though. My ilk did too... -NT - (hnick) - (1) - Oct. 31, 2004, 10:57:42 AM EST
                                             Well, at least you concede being ill-informed ;0) -NT - (mmoffitt) - Oct. 31, 2004, 11:02:17 AM EST
                                         read all of it - (daemon) - Oct. 31, 2004, 02:16:54 PM EST

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