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Originally Posted by MedMech
Aside from being a civilian that has no clue how to run a war it's well documented that he has bucked many seasoned Generals including Colon Powell. Word around the camp fire is that he was was basically ignored by planners so he decided to try his doctrine at the expense of American lives and taxpayers using "informational warfare" and a bunch of other hocus pocus. This new so called doctrine is also called the bush-rumsfeld doctrine and in relys on excellent intelligence and a chit load of smart bombs which were in great shortage after Afghanistan. If his arrogance hadn't got the best of him it might have worked, in Afghanistan a crew of twelve Army Special Forces took most of Afghanistan with the help of recruited locals and Air Force combat air controllers, half of the group was killed due to an error on the combat controllers part he accidentally gave the bomber his own GPS coordinates.
I know this is way off and deep but you anti war pendents are beating the wrong drum. If you would start beating the logical non-rhetorical drum you would likey find some if not most of the RNC's greatest supporters standing by your side because I know that I'm not alone. I've been in the situation that our soldiers are in and it downright sucks.
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A lot of my opposition to the current scene stems from the poor logic of it. In post war Germany and Japan, there were very few American deaths. I could not buy all the talk about Iraq being democratized and made an American ally the way Japan was. I had a heavy forboding that the 'forged in some hot Islamic desert furnace' hatred of Christians and America on top of resentment in general at Anglo colonial abuses would yield a steady supply of snipers in post war Iraq.
One reason I harp on Vittnam is that mistakes like that can end empires. We absorbed the blow pretty well cause oil was way plentiful and cheap and we had unprecedented wealth. We stay in Iraq another 10-12 years the way Rice and Rummy are talking about, might be a different story. We take ourselves and perpetual prosperity way too much for granted IMO.