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"ThomasT" <mauicop@hawaii-politics.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14:29 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>It inevitably results in civilian casualties, and the US has just
>>perpetrated a major humanitariian disaster, if not genocide in al Fallujah,
>>by means of this perfectly atrocious and dysfunctional doctrine.
>
> And what makes you a combat expert Buddha-boy??  How many combat areas
> have you served in?  How many times, and where, have you been under
> fire??  None?  In other words, you don't know diddly about what you're
> blathering on about??  That's what we thought.
>
> Every military expert/strategist since Sun Tzu, to Powell and
> Schwarzkopf advocate such a strategy.  In fact, in modern times it's
> become so entwined with the General it's often referred to the
> "Schwarzkopf Doctrine".  Overwhelming force was utilized both in the
> Balkans and during Iraq War I, with extremely successful results.
> And, notwithstanding the amount of resistance, the current combat in
> Iraq has been very successful.  The Army now owns Fallujah, and
> operations in Mosul are mopping up the last of the guerillas.
>
> The media has mis-stated the extent of collateral damage and civilian
> casualties from day one.  Sunni rebels were sniping at Shiite
> civilians, not to mention Iraqi Police patrols and American troops in
> the Fallujah area for months.  We should just look the other way and
> ignore it??
>
> It's a good thing Krishna-boy, that nancy-boy morons like you have no
> authority over military policy.  Stick with begging for quarters at
> the airport, and leave war to real men.
>
> "If we want to demoralize the population of Iraq and
> sap their will to fight, we ought to show them
> videotapes of the South Bronx, Detroit City and the
> West Side of Chicago.  Take a look, you Iraqis--this
> is what we do to our own cities in peacetime.  Just
> think what we're going to do to yours in a war."
>    ~ P.J. O'Rourke (1947-    )
>      _Give War a Chance_ [1992],
>      "Gulf Diary: Thursday, February 14, Dhahran"
>

"None of the tragedies that happened after the US withdrawal from Southeast 
Asia should have come as a surprise. But they did to those of us in the 
antiwar movement because we had blinded ourselves to any reality.

"Will today's current peace protestors eventually feel as foolish as I do? I 
think even more so. "
 ~ Gerald Posner, _Was I That Stupid?_,
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