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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:31 PM
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I guess General Shinseki was right all along
when he said way back in 2002 that it would take more troops. I mean who would have thought a four star general, a military professional, the senior Officer in the United States Army would know more than george bush about Army stuff. Now, 4 years later the Army wants more troops in Baghdad. And donald rumsfeld said the troops who will stay longer will just have to get on with life.

Great news for chickenhawks, they'll soon have more troops to support.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:32 PM
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1. Whatever happened to that weasly little asshole...
Feith? That rat bastard should be drawn and quartered for what he did to our military.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:36 PM
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2. I was hoping General Shinseki would run for Senator
I believe he is from Hawaii. Imagine the General questioning rumsfeld (and his band of pnac knuckleheads) at a senate hearing.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:38 PM
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3. Feith got some
big job...just like all the other liars and losers from the PNAC group that caused this fiasco.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:46 PM
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5. some big "think tank" no doubt...
these assholes are going to "think" us right back to pre-civilization.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 03:01 PM
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7. umm...make that post civilization
in "pre civilization", graves have been found dating around 30,000bc, (The city was called Chatal Hyuck (phonetically spelled) around modern day Krona, Turkey.

In these graves, women and men had equal station, children were treated lovingly and there was no evidence that any of the dead had "war wounds" of battered skulls, etc.

Just thoughts of how we might do this differently.
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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 03:15 PM
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9. "The fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth" - Tommy Franks
United States Army General Tommy Franks, according to Bob Woodward's 2004 Plan of Attack, described Feith as the "fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth" (p.281)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Feith
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:41 PM
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4. Every military guy, even those who opposed the war, said the same - IF you
go in then do it with a large force.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 02:54 PM
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6. Not quite
Not quite, they did find the one asshole who said he could do it with 50 thousand or something. Saw it on a frontline show. I think his name was Miller and he was a colonel from a tank division.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-27-06 03:05 PM
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8. heh - I meant KNOWN military leaders - sounds like they had to "create"
a Miller to side with them.
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