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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

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From: Colin Campbell
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:23
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:43:16 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:

>Thomas� wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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??
>
> 
>You're lying through your teeth.  The embedded reporters were censored by
>the military, and the only reason why we know anything at all about
>conditions in Fallujah is that they have been reported by wounded American
>soldiers, and my an aid mission.  

Reported by wounded American soldiers to who?  Those same reporters
who are being 'censored?'  
(Did you think about this at all before you typed it?)



>
>OVERWHELMING FIREPOWER WAS AN OVERWHELMING MISTAKE IN FALLUJAH.  THERE WERE,
>BY THE BEST ESTIMATES OF THE US DOD, SOMETHING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF
>80,000 CIVILIANS IN FALLUJAH, AT THE TIME WHEN IT WAS SUBJECTED TO THE MOST
>INTENSE AND SUSTAINED BOMBARDMENT IN THE HISTORY OF WAR, WITH THE EXCEPTION
>OF THE DROPPING OF NUCLEAR ARMANMAENTS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAKASAKI.  IT IS
>BEING PERCIEVED AS AN OVERHELMING SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS, BY THE
>ENTIRE PLANET, BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.

Just how many bombs do you think were dropped on Falluja?  


>
>DON'T LIE TO ME, YOU WITLESS THUG.  YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WENT ON OVER
>THERE, AND I DESPISE YOU WITH EVERY ATOM OF MY BODY FOR BEING A COWARDLY
>LIAR ABOUT IT.

PS - your caps lock key appears stuck and you are coming across as a
loon.


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Subject: Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
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