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revramrod
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 Posted: 30 Mar 2003 07:43 PM Post subject: War Could Last Months, Officers Say |
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I could have sworn I heard someone say the U.S. would "liberate" Iraq within 48 hours. I guess I must have been hearing things.
| washingtonpost.com wrote: | Despite the rapid advance of Army and Marine forces across Iraq over the past week, some senior U.S. military officers are now convinced that the war is likely to last months and will require considerably more combat power than is now on hand there and in Kuwait, senior defense officials said yesterday.
The combination of wretched weather, long and insecure supply lines, and an enemy that has refused to be supine in the face of American military might has led to a broad reassessment by some top generals of U.S. military expectations and timelines. Some of them see even the potential threat of a drawn-out fight that sucks in more and more U.S. forces. Both on the battlefield in Iraq and in Pentagon conference rooms, military commanders were talking yesterday about a longer, harder war than had been expected just a week ago, the officials said.
"Tell me how this ends," one senior officer said yesterday. |
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33955-2003Mar26 |
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bemisnorris
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| Posted: 30 Mar 2003 07:49 PM Post subject: |
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| Yep. The military and the Bush administration thought that the war would go similar to the Gulf War I, but they apparently failed to take into account that the last war was to get Iraqis out of Kuwait, and this time it's an invasion of Iraq itself. I heard on CNN that many Iraqis that had fled Iraq during the Saddam regime are now returning to fight against Americans, not because they support Saddam, but because they are against an invasion of their homeland by outsiders. |
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elchrist
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| bemisnorris wrote: | | I heard on CNN that many Iraqis that had fled Iraq during the Saddam regime are now returning to fight against Americans, not because they support Saddam, but because they are against an invasion of their homeland by outsiders. |
What did the US expect? The Iraqis to start giving up, left and right, at the sight on an American? We're invading their country.
I thought this country had already learned the hard way that we weren't the bad asses we thought we were once those two airline jets demolished the World Trade Center towers. I was obviously wrong. |
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bemisnorris
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| Posted: 31 Mar 2003 10:47 PM Post subject: |
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Looking back, I don't understand how anyone could have thought that the war with Iraq would end quickly. Especially, given the U.S. military action in Afghanistan (The War on Terrorism). I mean, it's been over a year and we still haven't found Osama bin Laden. What made the Bush administration think that overthrowing Saddam would be any easier?
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bemisnorris
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| It seems to me that most Americans have forgotten that the U.S. was already at War (in Afghanistan), and that the U.S. is now actually involved in two wars. |
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Mr.Tasty
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| Posted: 02 Apr 2003 09:59 AM Post subject: |
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| We just need to start shit with Korea and we’ll have ourselves an Axis of Evil trifecta. |
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bemisnorris
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| Mr.Tasty wrote: | | We just need to start shit with Korea and we’ll have ourselves an Axis of Evil trifecta. |
Sounds like the Phillipines is most likely on the horizon.
| United Press International wrote: | | The Pentagon last week announced its intention to send close to 2,000 U.S. military personnel to the southern Philippines where they would fight Abu Sayyaf directly. |
http://www.military.com/NewsContent?file=FL_philippines_022503
Although, the plan has been put on hold, it has not been completely abandoned.
| Associate Press wrote: | | A week after defense officials announced they had an agreement to deploy more than 1,000 U.S. troops in March in an effort to rout Abu Sayyaf forces from the island of Jolo, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he didn't know how many would go, or when, or exactly what they would do. |
http://www.military.com/NewsContent?file=FL_philippine_030103
Sounds like revramrod was right when he said that World War III began in March. |
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Mr.Tasty
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If you're purpose in life is simply to take-up space, do it in a strategic place: http://www.humanshields.org/
If that seems like to much work for you, just sit by your computer and watch the nifty collateral damage counter. |
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doroteo
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This war does not surprise me in any way. I knew that this war was going to last months. I believe that this is a government conspiracy. I think the United States could have liberated Iraq in a matter of hours, but, I also think that the leaders of this government feel that minorities are beginning to get ahead a little more than they feel is comfortable. I think this war has a lot to do with population control. But only with minorities.
Is it really just a coincidence that just as hispanics became the #1 minority (whatever thehell that means) in the United States, this war broke out? |
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spic-ole
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| Posted: 08 Apr 2003 09:02 AM Post subject: |
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| doroteo wrote: | | Is it really just a coincidence that just as hispanics became the #1 minority (whatever thehell that means) in the United States, this war broke out? |
So what are you trying to say? That the governments real reasoning behind this war is not to liberate Iraq, but to kill Mexicans? |
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