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Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by jprophet420
Really?
Where is Saddam giving his victory speech? Where is the Taliban doing press conferences from their remote caves? Where is the treaty, or surrender? From which fronts are our trips retreating? Where is the mounting losses of US casualties? (And don't give me the BS about 4000 lost in the past 10 years, we have lost that many in single days during other wars.)
Where is your proof? Your statistics? Who is taking credit for our defeat? If we were defeated, where are the victors?
Just because there are still some guerilla warriors annoying our troops does not constitute a loss. In today's warfare, you don't get to annihilate your enemy, that makes for bad public press. Instead, you defeat their military, replace their government, move in your civilian forces and sign lucrative contracts for rebuilding. Then you place your political allies in places of power and influence, then you pull out your troops while the "insurgents" try to create headlines.
I am pretty sure we did all of that. Maybe you haven't read the Petraeus books on modern warfare? There will never be a clear cut winner in today's warfare, but it is pretty easy to spot a loser, since they are either dead, or in hiding. The US is neither of those, yet our enemies are.
Originally posted by beijingyank
Irate Radical
Thank you for clearing that up, Dave.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by jprophet420
Well, for one, "Insurgents" is some new politically correct BS that was invented for this new warfare. So lets call them guerilla fighters. That is what they are. They are not terrorists, and they may or may not be insurgents, since we don't know their country of origin. They are in fact guerrilla fighters.
Two, yes, those guerrillas are the enemy of the US at this point in the war, although it started out as the reigning government of Iraq as the enemy, but that government and military was handily defeated in a couple of weeks.
Three, yes, on a grand scale compared to the might and presence of our military around the world, the handful of weekly deaths in Iraq are but a minor annoyance. I feel for those families, and in each individual case it is tragic, but on the grand scale, it does not compare to WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, or any other war the US has ever been involved in. As a matter of fact, it is only slightly more lethal than typical training casualties.
Please do not take that as callous, if you are over there fighting, then I pray for your safe return. However if you are over there fighting, then I am amazed and appalled that you would call yourself defeated? That is almost treasonous for a soldier to be publicly declaring the defeat of his own outfit!
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And Thank You for the Foe status!
I guess, since you are calling our military defeated, and claiming that the "insurgents" are not your enemy, then declaring me a Foe, puts me on the side of the US Military and it is an honor to be on this side!
[edit on 20-8-2010 by getreadyalready]
An insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority (for example, an authority recognised as such by the United Nations) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognised as belligerents
Originally posted by beijingyank
Yes, Virginia. Censorship is the last resort of a scoundrel. Great post by the way.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I call your photo and raise you one 2003 Hamas bus bombing in Haifa, killing 15 and wounding 40-
Originally posted by dragnet53
trying to make us truthers look bad.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
No plane hit The Pentagon a Tomahawk ICBM missle did.
Each tower was pre wired hence why total damage was predominately limited to the complex itself leaving the surrounding structures standing and intact.
Originally posted by DCDAVECLARKE
When was the last time you questioned a group of Maintenance Men in overalls what there intentions were for that day?
Originally posted by dereks
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
No plane hit The Pentagon a Tomahawk ICBM missle did.
Another truther showing their ignorance, the BGM-109 Tomahawk is NOT a ballistic missile...
Each tower was pre wired hence why total damage was predominately limited to the complex itself leaving the surrounding structures standing and intact.
Still wrong, why ignore the damage suffered to WTC 3,4 5 6 and 7, and how come no one noticed the buildings being pre wired?