On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, ded wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:58:05PM -0500, Net Llama! wrote: >> I'm not even convinced it was for oil. It was more likely just some >> infantile sense of vengence for his dad's honor. I doubt we'll ever get >> the truth. > > I've never really thought it was about oil, and I'd really hate to > think that almost three thousand young men and women died because of > a failed assassination attempt on Bush 1. What really bothers me is > that fact that nobody in the government seemed to have the sense to > see that recent history shows that this type of war is an impossibility > to win. Viet Nam and Northern Ireland are just two fairly recent examples > of how a force far inferior in numbers waged wars that their opposition > were ill equipped to fight with poor results for the numerically > superior forces. My other disappointment is that the minority, meaning > the democrats, seemed to lack the intestinal fortitude to stand up and > scream about it. Overall, it's just really sad I think and it's created > far more problems than it's solved.
Agreed. The phrase "never fight a land war in Asia" comes to mind. If there was a logical, sane, reasonable explanation, we would have heard it by now. Boggles my mind how some people think that 'cutting & running' is worse than 'staying & dying/losing'. I guess as long as its not their relatives that are being killed, its fine to stay there indefinitely just so that Bush doesn't lose face. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
