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Originally Posted by directfiesta
WTF are you on .... ???? I posted in this thread, discussing the treatment of gitmo prisonners, an opinion on the fact that even tough they were given great food, they still were kept against their will without being charged , having a trial and be represented by attorney...
You have a reading problem or what... And by the way, I travelled in more than 15 countries... 15 is just for Central and south America....
I wont resort to your childish name calling and idiot comments ... I leave that the the well travelled. 
And again, being anti-bush is not equal to be anti-american... It will sink in one day.
This is not from Aljezera:
USnews
So this Republican Senator is Anti-American... and an idiot according to you ??? LOL |
I agree with Senator Hagel's assesment in...near...totality...and had the same thinking from the beginning. I knew that there were enough troops to defeat the Iraqi Army going in (in fact I predicted they would defeat the Army in ten days...it took a little more than twice that long) but I expressed the fear that the peace would be the hard part and that we were to short on troops to occupy a nation of 27 million and as geographically large as Iraq is.
Since it has been proven that the force was to small to occupy the country it is even more wrong that the US has not poured forces into the country. I disagree with Senator Hagel on this point...he said two maybe three times as many troops are needed in country...and I say a half million minimum...and probably closer to a million.
I have also been critical of the civilian micro management of military operations in Iraq. We have forced our military to pussyfoot around. Overwhelming...crushing...decisive force is required to win victories. War is a dirty event and there is no civil...clean...way to fight a war. People will die...young and old...but pussy footing around will prolong a conflict and will ultimately cost more lives...on both sides...than getting the job done the way it should be done...the way the military knows to do the job. It has been said "We had to destroy the city in order to save it"...and there is truth in the statement.
We are doing much the same thing we did in Vietnam...that conflict could have been ended in a single day...with the use of nukes...within 30 days of conventional bombing if the military would have been allowed to choose the targets...within 90 days if the military would have been allowed to launch a land invasion of the North.
The civilians are micro managing the Iraq was just the same as they did during the Vietam war...tying one hand of the military behind its back...prolonging conflict...which will ultimately cost more lives on both sides...and the end may be the same as Vietnam.