from the CO of my old company to the wives

dantheman · 04-20-2004

thanks mike, I really try to get my news and feelings from those who know what's going on, not those who specalate(sp) on CNN.
here's a little piece from the blog I posted above,
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On the one hand, the ney-sayers will be crowing "I told you so! It's a quagmire! It's Vietnam, Tet, Hue... the sky is frickin' falling!!!!" But let's be serious, those same people would be saying that if one bomb went off on an unguarded and unoccupied stretch of road. Yes, Coalition forces are dying in their tens, and Iraqis are dying in their hundreds. That is why we never declared "peace" here... we are at war. For those that have lost their perspective on what "war" means, tune in the History Channel every now and then and watch shows about the bomber missions during WWII in which we lost more than 100 planes (at ten airmen captured or killed per plane... do the math) in a single day. Learn about Dresden, or Tokyo, or Treblinka, or Iwo Jima, or Guadalcanal, or Nagasaki, or... you get the picture. Is it sown up with a bow? No. Is it the worst thing to ever come down the pike? Uh, no. Would everybody rather it was better? Yep... well, WE would, but obviously there are some "non-compliant" forces that feel otherwise. These people are not the friends, or even the countrymen, of Iraq. Those that WERE born here are willing to kill, instigate the death of innocents, are not fighting for Iraq but for a return to Saddam's world, a Jim Jones-like dysfunctional nirvana, or a sham state with THEIR thug at the top. Oh, and is it Tet III? In that we are breaking the spine of military resistance, yes... but it will only be another Tet if the folks at home let it break their will to see a good thing through. Don't say "we have to get out of Iraq" because of concerns for us, here. We came to do a job. Don't say "we have to get out of Iraq" because of concerns for the people of Iraq. The solutions desired by those fighting us certainly don't have the best interests of the people of Iraq in mind. Don't say "we have to get out of Iraq" becuase we haven't found any WMD and the President is evil and it's all about oil and depleted uranium is killing billions of people worldwide and there was NO justification for invading in the first place and it's not our place to decide that Saddam was a bad guy, or anything like that... because you'll just sound stupid, venal, petty, and wrong.

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dantheman Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,878	thanks mike, I really try to get my news and feelings from those who know what's going on, not those who specalate(sp) on CNN. here's a little piece from the blog I posted above, ---------- On the one hand, the ney-sayers will be crowing "I told you so! It's a quagmire! It's Vietnam, Tet, Hue... the sky is frickin' falling!!!!" But let's be serious, those same people would be saying that if one bomb went off on an unguarded and unoccupied stretch of road. Yes, Coalition forces are dying in their tens, and Iraqis are dying in their hundreds. That is why we never declared "peace" here... we are at war. For those that have lost their perspective on what "war" means, tune in the History Channel every now and then and watch shows about the bomber missions during WWII in which we lost more than 100 planes (at ten airmen captured or killed per plane... do the math) in a single day. Learn about Dresden, or Tokyo, or Treblinka, or Iwo Jima, or Guadalcanal, or Nagasaki, or... you get the picture. Is it sown up with a bow? No. Is it the worst thing to ever come down the pike? Uh, no. Would everybody rather it was better? Yep... well, WE would, but obviously there are some "non-compliant" forces that feel otherwise. These people are not the friends, or even the countrymen, of Iraq. Those that WERE born here are willing to kill, instigate the death of innocents, are not fighting for Iraq but for a return to Saddam's world, a Jim Jones-like dysfunctional nirvana, or a sham state with THEIR thug at the top. Oh, and is it Tet III? In that we are breaking the spine of military resistance, yes... but it will only be another Tet if the folks at home let it break their will to see a good thing through. Don't say "we have to get out of Iraq" because of concerns for us, here. We came to do a job. Don't say "we have to get out of Iraq" because of concerns for the people of Iraq. The solutions desired by those fighting us certainly don't have the best interests of the people of Iraq in mind. Don't say "we have to get out of Iraq" becuase we haven't found any WMD and the President is evil and it's all about oil and depleted uranium is killing billions of people worldwide and there was NO justification for invading in the first place and it's not our place to decide that Saddam was a bad guy, or anything like that... because you'll just sound stupid, venal, petty, and wrong. ------------------------ __________________ "Never argue with an idiot....he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience."

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