Yup, and used their intestines to lace his boots. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chesty Puller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:06 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Today's Patraeus: Wow. > > The real Chesty would have killed them all in his quest for a CMH. > > - Matt > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gruss Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:01 AM > Subject: Re: Today's Patraeus: Wow. > > > >> Chesty wrote: > >> Shouldn't the goal of war be to annihilate our enemy? That would be > so > >> much > >> easier than winning their hearts and minds, and cheaper as well. > >> > > > > The problem, as the real Chesty knew, is that the enemy has to be > > defined. In Iraq only 5% of it is. > > > > We've got about 5% Al Queda (which our presence may be > > self-generating), and 95% civil war (Patreaus calls it an > > "ethno-sectarian conflict"). So who's the enemy? > > > > We simply don't have enough troops to lock down the country and clean > > it out block by block so it just becomes a never ending loop. > > > > "Return on success" really means "report to the Iraqis" since now, > > based on Bush's speech, our troops are essentially reporting to, and > > at the mercy of, the Iraqis. They decide when we succeed. > > > > So I wonder if that means Iraqi veterans can get dual Iraqi > citizenship? > > > > > >
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