Once again the political masters fail their soldiers, not the other way around.
Bruce Sorge wrote: > Loathe is right on this one. Read the book called American Soldier by > Gen. Tommy Franks. In it he talks about how GW and Rummy told the > Generals to scrap the old Iraq contingency plans that included sending > in hundreds of thousands of troops for a leaner force, the very one that > we went in with. This was before 9/11 during the time that Saddam was > continually taunting us by shooting missiles at our planes that were > merely enforcing the no-fly zones (the zones were in place so that > Saddam would stop sending in his helicopters to gas and kill the Kurds > in the North and the Shi'a in the South, btw). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252433 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
