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Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Jan. 24 2007,08:39) | Quote (Altabin @ Jan. 24 2007,03:07) | DaveScot, military analyst (my bold below):
Quote | Well Jim [Webb], I was a Marine at the end of the Vietnam war. I didn’t go, it was mostly over by then, but one thing I noticed was that all the non-commissioned officers senior to me were real combat veterans. They knew how to survive guerilla warfare in an Asian backwater. Me and my generation of Marines, all we did was play at wargames 4 weeks a year in the Mojave desert. No one was trying to kill us, no foreign language was spoken by the natives, no guerillas in civilian clothes running around, none of that. After 30 years of that kind of experience our military was virtually without anyone in any rank who’d had actual combat experience. Here’s the deal Jim. In order to have an effective force in fighting guerilla and urban wars in Arab countries we need actual combat veterans seasoned in that type of warfare leading the unseasoned troops.
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That's the most ass-backward justification I've ever heard for the Iraq war: we need the Iraq war to create seasoned veterans, in order to fight the Iraq war (and the other ones we set off in the Middle East). Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way. And Bush has managed this war even better than Vietnam: Quote | Now we have an effective force led by NCOs who know how to survive urban and guerilla wars in Arab countries. And Bush managed to build that force without losing 58,000 American lives as were sacrificed in Vietnam but rather limited the losses to 3,000. |
A brilliant strategy.
Quote | Drop and give me 500 Webb, then issue an apology to the public you tried to deceive. |
I think you meant to say, "Drop and give me 500, homo". If you're going to be a self-parody, at least try to be accurate. |
So Jim Webb, who DID see combat, is now supposed to 'apologize' to Dave tard, who didn't.
Much like Bush attacking Kerry on his war record.
Bravo, Dave. |
Ah ...let me get this straight Secret ID lab Concierge and retrenched marine spanner boy WHO WASN'T THERE AND WAS ON THE LOSING SIDE offers his valuable military knowledge on Iraq...that will change the outcome from losing to...... er losing.
It must be because as a houseboat deckchair mean time before failure tester, that qualifies him for Navy experience these days.
Look D.T. the only reason Bush is still there is to try to save Project Haliburton and GOP OIL from having to close down their Baghdad headquarters and leave before they can steal the rest of the oil AND put more money in their own pockets while they still have signing rights on Pentagon Checks.
It doesn't take a genius to work what is going to happen....again.
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