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Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote in message news:<7752846.C0e8O9o76Z@news.verizon.net>...
> RTO Trainer wrote:
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> > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14:29 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:
> > 
> >>
> > No.
> > 
> > Overwhelming firepower is outdated doctrine.
> > 
> > Its why we don't use it anymore.
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> > Signaleer  http://signaleer.blogspot.com
> > This Day in U.S. Military History  http://tdiumh.blogspot.com
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> 
> You may not think, from the exalted heights of your galactic certitude, that
> American military doctrine is not the use of overwhelming firepower, but in
> thinking that, you disagree with the American military commanders in Iraq,
> and with the planet at large.
> 
> Don't believe me.  Do a Google on "overwhelming firepower."  There are
> literally hundreds of records of the use of this term in the Iraq war, at
> least half of them directly out of the mouths of American military
> commanders.
> 
> Below is an example from USA Today (not exactly a left-wing rag).  Apart
> from that, please grow up, get a life, and stop making a blind ass out of
> yourself on Usenet.
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> http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-11-09-fallujah-scene_x.htm
> 
> Every vehicle is treated as a potential car bomb and every person a possible
> enemy.
> 
> Approval even came over the radio to shoot dogs with shotguns to prevent
> them from carrying explosives.
> 
> Bravo's final attack of the day, mounted jointly with vehicles of a light
> armored reconnaissance company, demonstrated how overwhelming U.S.
> firepower has dominated the fight.
> 
> Capt. Gil Juarez, the light armored reconnaissance company commander, began
> the assault by blasting his 25mm turret gun down a street toward a target
> house. Teams fired small mortars. "You want me to fire one more volley?"
> Juarez asked a Bravo Company officer.

That's not the quote of a commander.  Its the bloviation of a journalist.