19 Oct 06
Originally posted by scottishinnzYeah just saw that on the SBS news. Nothing new really. You would think there would of been a lesson in the outcome of the Vietnam war...
Apparently, October is due to be the US's bloodiest month since Jan 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6065050.stm
He has admitted that comparisons with the Vietnam War might not be too far off the mark.
19 Oct 06
Originally posted by EsotericThe lesson is that the U.S. military shouldn't be hamstrung by leftists, Democrats, lawyers, the dinosaur media or anti-U.S. college professors and their know-nothing charges.
Yeah just saw that on the SBS news. Nothing new really. You would think there would of been a lesson in the outcome of the Vietnam war...
19 Oct 06
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterI knew you wouldn't be able to resist this one.
The lesson is that the U.S. military shouldn't be hamstrung by leftists, Democrats, lawyers, the dinosaur media or anti-U.S. college professors and their know-nothing charges.
The problem you have is that the commander-in-chief is democratically accountable (up to a point at least).
So, their military decisions always have to be tempered by domestic political considerations.
Democracy's a bummer, eh.
19 Oct 06
Originally posted by RedmikeYeah huge penalties. Any miltary unit not in a friendly city (and any Bomber, Stealth Bomber, Helicopter or Missile regardless of location) causes two unhappy citizens in their home city. Also each military unit costs 1 shield of support per turn.
Democracy's a bummer, eh.
19 Oct 06
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Originally posted by EsotericAccording to the marauder and others at this site the US did not lose this war .... and they weren't kicked out either.
Yeah just saw that on the SBS news. Nothing new really. You would think there would of been a lesson in the outcome of the Vietnam war...
2,784 US troops killed in Iraq.
9,543 US troops wounded and not returned to action within 72 hours.
11,543 more US troops wounded but returned to action within 72 hours.
A complete and utter waste of human life. The only thing that was accomplished was the creation of many more terrorists.
How long will we persist with this folly? Will we keep going until we've had 58,000 killed to realize this war is only making matters worse?
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
19 Oct 06
Originally posted by ivanhoeIf indeed he is a lawyer it is all part of his stock in trade to twist facts.
Ask him. He'll probably give a lawyers' twist to it, but that's what he said.
Gibbon summed up the lawyers' aims when he said the Roman advocates "laboured to disguise the truth of facts, and to pervert the sense of the laws".