Military Revenge On Women and Children

That did wonders in Mogadishu, it is always good to show the world that by killing Americans that they will go away. Kill some Rangers, Army goes away, kill 3,000+ Americans, and see what we can get.

Is it not well documented that kids can and do fire at US troops? You don't believe it in Iraq? How about in Somalia? Why is it so hard to believe that troops that have raped, and tortured would hide behind women and children?

This isn't something I'd traditionally doubt, but safecracker telling outright lies here is also well documented so I take his many tall tales with a grain of salt.

To cite but a few examples, he claimed authorship of a host of recipies in a recipie contest we had but he'd simply copied and pasted them off of other websites not boithering to disguise the lie much at all.

Then there are the tall tales of him being good friends with celebrities and of technical exploits that are implausible and in some cases just laughable.

The Enemey

Unless you took the picture yourself you don't know anything about it. Were you there, or do you just react to stories. I have been to places like that and it's not what they tell you on the news.

WAR!!!!

Craven de Kere, sorry i ain't safecracker, yes similar avatars, but not same person (just another paratrooper)

do you dibbeleve about Children solders, check out the UN, i beleve they have a lot of Information about it.

I never said I don't believe that there are children soldiers. I just take safecracker's personal tales with a grain of salt.

then why did you quote me?

Craven de Kere, sorry i ain't safecracker, yes similar avatars, but not same person (just another paratrooper)

do you dibbeleve about Children solders, check out the UN, i beleve they have a lot of Information about it.

Because you referenced my expressed doubt at Safecracker's tale. I proceeded to explain why the doubt.

WAR!!!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6010.htm

Photos of what your American tax dollars went to.

Hmmm. I'm not sure if you should trust that mob pist'. I'm pretty sure I've seen one of those photos before. Will try and find it.

Those who refuse to acknowledge the difference between collateral damage and premeditated murder are perfect examples of what Pete was talking about.... At best. At worst... worse.

Jay leno's weather forecast.

"Sunni today, turing to Shiite tomorrow."

Seems like de ja vu all over again for me. Anyone here remember Vietnam up close and personal?

Some Intersting Facts About The War In Viet Nam

The action in Iraq is nothing like Vietnam, from a military perspective.
Most of the critisism I see here is from non-military people. How can people complain about something they have no knowledge of. Has anyone here asked the citizens of Iraq how they feel? Write a letter to a soldier and ask him what people over there think. Or just sit in our perfect world and assume you know whats going on. I was in Iraq 1 and those people want us there.

Huh?
Those people?

It is quite ironic that what started the recent uprising is the shutting down of "Free Speech" of an Iraqi newspaper. Bushco keeps spouting "Freedom" and "democracy" for Iraq then shows just the opposite. It seems that the Iraqis got the message.

All the military folks that I know that were in country Vietnam are saying this is shaping up to be another Vietnam. Guess they know less than other Vietnam vets.

Gosh perhaps opinions differ even within the military. Let us not forget who the Department of Defense and the armed services work for the citizens/civilians of the US not themselves.

Some military folks circled the wagons and took the anti war sentiment of the 60s and the 70s as a personal affront instead of the right of the citizens they were supposed to be fighting to protect from communism others did not.

Could it be that being against the war in Iraq is the same as being against the war in Vietnam? Could it be that being against the war in Iraq is un-American?

We lost the war in Vietnam and so did the communists.

Actually I was thinking the other day how much this Iraq deal reminds me of Custer's defeat.

What if this is Saddam's strategy all along to win the war against the US all he had to do was let the people of Iraq decide to kick the US out?

Could it be that Saddam knew his people better than US politicians?