- May 18, 2008 • 10:13 pm PDT
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The Bush administration was wrong about the need for the Iraq war.
As I may inaccurately recall from College English Lit, Edgar Allen Poe used a method called repetition, first introduced in the poem "The Raven, and the repetitive word used was "nevermore.†Would that it could possibly be, that nevermore would we hear "The Bush administration was wrong about the need for the Iraq War†but alas as Poe described the "reply so aptly spoken†by the raven as "its only stock and store†so it appears the Dems and the lefts primary stock and store is "The Bush administration was wrong about the need for the Iraq War†accompanied by their continually moving goal line now defined as the "cost of war†and not the former "the war is lost.â€. Those specific Poe revelations are provided below for your entertainment and a link to that great poem is also included. Enjoy today as yesterday per Poe. How hindsight can become yesterdays conclusion is beyond my comprehension. For me I am committed to nevermore, will I make a particular repetitive sophistry "reply so aptly spoken, as my only stock and store.â€
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'
[url=http://www.good.is]GOOD Magazine[/http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html
When our Reserve Unit received our kinda surprise warning order that we were going to be deployed, no theater was given to us commoners, but we speculated two obvious destinations. And since the majority of our training was at Fort Hood TX, living among the scorpions, rattlesnakes, other desert type critters, and the heat this dry climate exaggerated by the Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) gear US troops wore for months after the invasion of Iraq, we hopefully entertained Kuwait as our ultimate deployment designation. This Kuwait possibility was frequently enhanced because we continually heard from the President, Democrat Senators and Democrat Representatives and their leaders about that evil despot to the north of Kuwait, depicted as a real threat to the world, must be removed and we entertained the hypothesis, that finally the Democrats would be more inclined to action than words and we could contribute substantially toward that end. More recently Saddam was graphically defined by an Intelligence specialist as the, "then†most immanent area danger when he commented "Who in their right mind could have anticipated that Saddam would attack a country (Iran) three times his size.†"Such is the accuracy of a profession that relies primarily on judgment and more often that not, with no direct clues.†Nothing about Saddam's past offered any conclusions that could contradict the Bush 1/Clinton/Bush 2 administration's conclusion but as time separates us from 9/11 contrarian decisions are more easily fabricated toward a political end. I am further confused that genocide in Iraq is A OK, but not A OK in Dufar or not A OK in Bosnia, our final deployment destination. With Oil at +$120 a barrel and efforts to enhance its availability would surely facilitate an improved ability to address other humanitarian issues and would surely insure cheaper tortillas or other similar grain products consumed by the poor. Where were those touché feelie clarivoyanters on this bio-fuel food morass? I digress. An attempt toward an honored presence in that area seems prudent with the world's primary oil source in this area. I am persuaded that immediate and past political declarations do not insure that petroleum availability and this sophistry war of feeling words has delivered us into the oil viper's pit, where 80% or more of the oil is controlled by foreign governments and too many of these are hostile to the US government. And there really are governments even more incompetent than our own and they now have the oil.
Now if you have read the comments and you are not military, you would question why Kuwait was our/my preferred deployment site. My unit was a US Army unit and the Army lives in tents but if we were deployed to Kuwait, we would be quartered in Air Force Quarters. And any military dude knows that the Air Force goes nowhere without their Air Conditioners and Cable TV. That is a 5 star rating to a US Army soldier. But times have changed and thanks to the historically common practice of employing evil civilian companies like Halliburton's Brown and Root, more recently forward deployments often are made more comfortable in Halliburton's climate controlled billets. I still dream about all the Mediterranean or Adriatic Sea sourced, all I could eat scallops, prepared by a 1st class chief and not a mess sergeant. And as a result MREs (apparently the Dem choice for GIs) were more infrequently our food fare. Military messes have improved, thanks to the contributions of civilian contractors. It a minimum they have set a capitalist competitive standard that is lost to most governmental processes. That old way works for draftees but not as an attractor to the volunteer GI. Write your congressman... Those GIs are livin and eatin in standards far to high...
We carried the water for the United Nations, and then the Euro Dudes in the Balkans and now that Afghanistan has been turned over to the Euro Dudes, as in the past their words cannot match their action. And to add insult to injury they will only deploy their troops to secure areas. So, as it has been in the past century it will be again in this century, the US to the rescue and they will once more criticize us now for "the doing†and not "the not doing.â€
A Marine detachment is being deployed to Afghanistan that will use the Special Forces type tactics they have successfully used in Iraq and are similar to if not the same as Petraeus' tactics. I expect that to yield results and if the source of most of the poor battle planning process, the Pentagon will continue Petraeus' tactics there is hope there as well. But the immediate reaction of the press to insure Gen Sanchez's comments that Gen Petraeus' tactic would not work should provide one the insight to the mind set of the liberal fawning the Dem media, Pentagon and DC mentality. Petraeus (Betray Us to Some) has to fight to the top and he did so with a civilian PhD degree, a contrarian and career threatening process by military standards.
We were trying to get up armored Humvees and more in Bosnia. Bullet proof vest too instead of the flack vest. Up Armored Humvees had to be used off post because it was considered the 3rd most mined country in the world and mines were found in previously on post demined areas monthly and often weekly. We supplement some up armored Humvees on post with sand bags on the floor. One had to wait in line to get an up armored Humvee and those that were available were by weight maxed out by the up armor and sitting on the vehicles frame. Why did we not adopt the up armored Humvee policy from this experience or the more effective MRAP?!?!? I recall the MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) being nixed. In Bosnia, the former Yugoslavia where Tito provided the clue, with Gorilla warfare, that should have telegraphed to military students the future of warfare and again provided the substance that would have driven a true clarivoyanters to emphasize more Special Operations, bullet proof vest, and up armored Humvees. But I guess if Hillary had really encountered Snipers at the Tuzla Air Base Camp Eagle all of this would have come to pass. Dontcha just know it would have happened that way...
To paraphrase Eisenhower, Patton, or any other tactical genus, when the first bullet is fired, the plan is no longer the plan. D day was planned to occur on Jun 5 1944, but canceled by weather. Omaha beach was missed by 1000 yards, paratroopers were dropped into flood waters, the highest ranking fatality occurred when Allied Bombers bombed their own troops. An invasion on Peleliu Island in the Pacific was planed to be completed in 3 days. It took more than one month with 1,400 killed. Chesty Puller was a Col during that battle... On Iwo Jima 7,000 GIs were killed in one month. Gen Eisenhower said "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable†Please tell me in what war this has not occurred? Only a leftie, Dem politician hugely assisted by their fawning press could sell such speciousness.
As I may inaccurately recall from College English Lit, Edgar Allen Poe used a method called repetition, first introduced in the poem "The Raven, and the repetitive word used was "nevermore.†Would that it could possibly be, that nevermore would we hear "The Bush administration was wrong about the need for the Iraq War†but alas as Poe described the "reply so aptly spoken†by the raven as "its only stock and store†so it appears the Dems and the lefts primary stock and store is "The Bush administration was wrong about the need for the Iraq War†accompanied by their continually moving goal line now defined as the "cost of war†and not the former "the war is lost.â€. Those specific Poe revelations are provided below for your entertainment and a link to that great poem is also included. Enjoy today as yesterday per Poe. How hindsight can become yesterdays conclusion is beyond my comprehension. For me I am committed to nevermore, will I make a particular repetitive sophistry "reply so aptly spoken, as my only stock and store.â€
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'
[url=http://www.good.is]GOOD Magazine[/http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html
When our Reserve Unit received our kinda surprise warning order that we were going to be deployed, no theater was given to us commoners, but we speculated two obvious destinations. And since the majority of our training was at Fort Hood TX, living among the scorpions, rattlesnakes, other desert type critters, and the heat this dry climate exaggerated by the Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) gear US troops wore for months after the invasion of Iraq, we hopefully entertained Kuwait as our ultimate deployment designation. This Kuwait possibility was frequently enhanced because we continually heard from the President, Democrat Senators and Democrat Representatives and their leaders about that evil despot to the north of Kuwait, depicted as a real threat to the world, must be removed and we entertained the hypothesis, that finally the Democrats would be more inclined to action than words and we could contribute substantially toward that end. More recently Saddam was graphically defined by an Intelligence specialist as the, "then†most immanent area danger when he commented "Who in their right mind could have anticipated that Saddam would attack a country (Iran) three times his size.†"Such is the accuracy of a profession that relies primarily on judgment and more often that not, with no direct clues.†Nothing about Saddam's past offered any conclusions that could contradict the Bush 1/Clinton/Bush 2 administration's conclusion but as time separates us from 9/11 contrarian decisions are more easily fabricated toward a political end. I am further confused that genocide in Iraq is A OK, but not A OK in Dufar or not A OK in Bosnia, our final deployment destination. With Oil at +$120 a barrel and efforts to enhance its availability would surely facilitate an improved ability to address other humanitarian issues and would surely insure cheaper tortillas or other similar grain products consumed by the poor. Where were those touché feelie clarivoyanters on this bio-fuel food morass? I digress. An attempt toward an honored presence in that area seems prudent with the world's primary oil source in this area. I am persuaded that immediate and past political declarations do not insure that petroleum availability and this sophistry war of feeling words has delivered us into the oil viper's pit, where 80% or more of the oil is controlled by foreign governments and too many of these are hostile to the US government. And there really are governments even more incompetent than our own and they now have the oil.
Now if you have read the comments and you are not military, you would question why Kuwait was our/my preferred deployment site. My unit was a US Army unit and the Army lives in tents but if we were deployed to Kuwait, we would be quartered in Air Force Quarters. And any military dude knows that the Air Force goes nowhere without their Air Conditioners and Cable TV. That is a 5 star rating to a US Army soldier. But times have changed and thanks to the historically common practice of employing evil civilian companies like Halliburton's Brown and Root, more recently forward deployments often are made more comfortable in Halliburton's climate controlled billets. I still dream about all the Mediterranean or Adriatic Sea sourced, all I could eat scallops, prepared by a 1st class chief and not a mess sergeant. And as a result MREs (apparently the Dem choice for GIs) were more infrequently our food fare. Military messes have improved, thanks to the contributions of civilian contractors. It a minimum they have set a capitalist competitive standard that is lost to most governmental processes. That old way works for draftees but not as an attractor to the volunteer GI. Write your congressman... Those GIs are livin and eatin in standards far to high...
We carried the water for the United Nations, and then the Euro Dudes in the Balkans and now that Afghanistan has been turned over to the Euro Dudes, as in the past their words cannot match their action. And to add insult to injury they will only deploy their troops to secure areas. So, as it has been in the past century it will be again in this century, the US to the rescue and they will once more criticize us now for "the doing†and not "the not doing.â€
A Marine detachment is being deployed to Afghanistan that will use the Special Forces type tactics they have successfully used in Iraq and are similar to if not the same as Petraeus' tactics. I expect that to yield results and if the source of most of the poor battle planning process, the Pentagon will continue Petraeus' tactics there is hope there as well. But the immediate reaction of the press to insure Gen Sanchez's comments that Gen Petraeus' tactic would not work should provide one the insight to the mind set of the liberal fawning the Dem media, Pentagon and DC mentality. Petraeus (Betray Us to Some) has to fight to the top and he did so with a civilian PhD degree, a contrarian and career threatening process by military standards.
We were trying to get up armored Humvees and more in Bosnia. Bullet proof vest too instead of the flack vest. Up Armored Humvees had to be used off post because it was considered the 3rd most mined country in the world and mines were found in previously on post demined areas monthly and often weekly. We supplement some up armored Humvees on post with sand bags on the floor. One had to wait in line to get an up armored Humvee and those that were available were by weight maxed out by the up armor and sitting on the vehicles frame. Why did we not adopt the up armored Humvee policy from this experience or the more effective MRAP?!?!? I recall the MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) being nixed. In Bosnia, the former Yugoslavia where Tito provided the clue, with Gorilla warfare, that should have telegraphed to military students the future of warfare and again provided the substance that would have driven a true clarivoyanters to emphasize more Special Operations, bullet proof vest, and up armored Humvees. But I guess if Hillary had really encountered Snipers at the Tuzla Air Base Camp Eagle all of this would have come to pass. Dontcha just know it would have happened that way...
To paraphrase Eisenhower, Patton, or any other tactical genus, when the first bullet is fired, the plan is no longer the plan. D day was planned to occur on Jun 5 1944, but canceled by weather. Omaha beach was missed by 1000 yards, paratroopers were dropped into flood waters, the highest ranking fatality occurred when Allied Bombers bombed their own troops. An invasion on Peleliu Island in the Pacific was planed to be completed in 3 days. It took more than one month with 1,400 killed. Chesty Puller was a Col during that battle... On Iwo Jima 7,000 GIs were killed in one month. Gen Eisenhower said "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable†Please tell me in what war this has not occurred? Only a leftie, Dem politician hugely assisted by their fawning press could sell such speciousness.
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