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3003 Soldiers Dead, Bush wants to Increase Troop Levels
Interesting points raised by scottishmartialarts however as of mid-November 2006, there were already approximately 152,000 US troops deployed to Iraq. So the large force presence you mention is already there. <ahref="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm">Global Security source.
I would agree on most of what you raise had it not been the current administration that carried out the tasks. One of the biggest reasons for escalation of insurgent forces and destabilization factors was the disbanding of the entire Iraq army, giving extremist groups unemployed soldiers. It has proven time and time again that it doesn't know how to deal with the problem.
Every week the war costs the tax payer 2 billion dollars and more lives lost. American strategic influence in the Middle East is already assured through the military presence in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Strategic objectives at further cost to the debt ridden US economy? Low political support from the population?
The same reasoning you raised scottishmartialarts was raised during Vietnam, because the administration kept seeing it as part of the Cold War and not the civil war that it was. I remember reading the same arguments 'American strategic presence in South East Asia is important to keeping the communist menace at bay'.
OK, so the Saddam video is officially "out there"... (Sift Talk Post)
JFK's assassination is an important historical event. Mainly due to the US goverment stating that he got shot from the Texas Book Depository which would be a head shot to the back, and not back and to the left as shown in the Zapruder film. It was the start of the end of the first Roman Catholic President and Camelot as a whole.
His death lead to the swearing in of Lydon B. Johnson as president and almost immediate escalation of American involvement in South East Asia, based principally on the Gulf Of Tonkin incident. When JFK at the time was himself considering disengaging from pursuing a 'proxy war' with US troops against the Soviet Union and Communism in general.
Beyond the obvious questions of goverment involvement and knowledge of the assassination attempt, the strange circumstances of the event, the fact that the assassin clearly left a trail to be found, got assassinated two days later by Jack Ruby for unknown and unclear reasons. The basic fact remains that if JFK had lived our world would be vastly different then what it is now. Thus the videos posted form important historical artifacts.
Saddam Hussein, and the video that was posted was enough. We don't need to see him hanging. I would apply the same historical reverence to any execution video, as I do not believe executions are historic events. They are subjective to the people who suffered from the tyranny of others.
Bill Clinton in major showdown with Fox News anchor.INTENSE!
Fletch, we have lots of wingnut trolls. 0 videos submitted, and often 0 voted fors.. but tons of spew. Like quantumshroom.
Hey shroomy, you know what "delights our savage enemies".... The US gov't spying on its own citizens, creating an order of magnitude of anti-US foreign sentiment, more soldiers dead in Iraq than any terrorist attack ever, legislation to nullify Geneva convention and allow US troops to be subject to torture, a US gov't that makes the Taliban's view on torture downright tame...
Show me any data that supports a 'left' federal fiscal spending outpacing any Republican Congress in the last 20 years. Show me once where a modern Republican budget has NOT increased the federal deficit. Your buddy Bush has increased the deficit ceiling to 8-10 trillion. And name one non-DHS, non-military thing he has spent it on. Name just one.
Seriously, they have raised the age of enlistment to cover just about anyone you can think of. So.. assuming you are 18 yrs old, enlist now, or STFU.
Body Armour: Vietnam And Now
Swampgirl Somalia is just another example where the political process drove what mostly should have been a military operation, the politicians promised to resolve a conflict, again using less then needed forces and armament. There were larger forces avliable to put forward, but there wasn't the initiative.
The american's were overconfident coming off the Gulf War conflict, they saw a nation that has been battling a civil war with small arms and thought it was going to be easy. Somalia has been in a civil conflict for decades by then, the militias that sound simple on paper were veteran fighters that were used to war, while the american forces was green (except the delta force detachment that was with them). Lack of local knowledge, lack of actual commitment to a conflict, lack of intelligence are problems that still plague the armed forces.
Somalia was the saddest case, because it ultimately killed America's intiative to try enforce peace elsewhere via the UN. Because of commiting less then need forces, the operations failed, US troops were dragged on the street and the public never wanted american troops to go anywhere. This is most probably why the genocide in Rwanda was so sidelined by the international community, no first world nations put forward forces. Canada sent one general, Belgium a small detachment that got pulled out as the conflict began, France came and evacuated it's citizens and left as well... only by the time it was over, world guilt got to some powers and they sent forces after the fact (Canada).
US Soldiers Destroy Man's Taxi because they can
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Look, I don't have anything against US troops, but I think the high level of adulation, and lack of critical thought about their behavior is rampant in the US.
They are all hard-working, hero patriots - right? I'm sorry, but I'm not buying it. Soldiers have been a mix of bad and good from Roman times, and modern soldiers are no different.
They are average people, often people just out of high school, suddenly thrust into situations that require diplomacy, broad minded cultural experience and forward thinking. I think most of them are very unequipped for this kind of experience - and they are naturally going off the rails.
I don't agree with the action in Iraq - and I don't think these clueless kids should be over there. It is a shitty job they've been thrust into - and I say they should be brought back.
Footage of urban warfare in Iraq from US troops' position
Not much available in the way of context or commentary; just pretty much raw footage from the US troops position (little display of close-up effects, for that reason)
Channel 4 - Iraq's Missing Billions
wow, this is very, very sad. betrayals of trust on the part of war profiteers ending with children and babies not having basic hospital treatment available. An important point is noted at the end; Iraq's healthcare services were envied in the middle east before the war, and it was not the 3rd world country it is today.
... another interesting part is the scene at 31 minutes, when the narrator, an Iraqi doctor, relates how his house was raided by US troops the night before, who made a 'mistake' and later gave him $1,500 to repair the car and house which they smashed before he was hooded and taken to a military base.
Fallujah - the Hidden Massacre
A massacre is partly defined as killing the defenseless. The koranimals running around fallujah, shooting at US troops and then hiding behind women and children, were never defenseless and never going to surrender. I celebrate the death of every last islamofascist on behalf of the 3000 Americans who can't ever celebrate anything again.