On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:47:24 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

Ivan Marsh wrote:

I'm about half way through Douglas Feith's new book, "War and
Decision." Feith was Undersecretary of Defense for Policy during the
first six years of the Bush administration and the #3 man in the
Pentagon. He discusses the events and policies that led up to the war
in Iraq. Here's one revelation:

Capturing Ben Laden was NEVER a goal of the United States. Capturing
and "bringing to justice" is a crime control concept, not an
anti-terror concept. The number one goal of the war on terror, from
the beginning, was to prevent another attack on U.S. interests. This
could be accomplished by disrupting or destroying the terrorist's
funding, communication, membership, chain-of-command, training
facilities, logistical support, and so on.

To that end, there has not been a successful terrorist attack against
the United States or U.S. interests anywhere in the world for five
years. Not one.

Now they're just killing members of our military directly.

Well, yeah. Some.

Some? More than were killed in the 9/11 attacks and the Cole combined and
then some.

But that's the chance our volunteers took when they signed up for the
opportunity to wreak havoc.

They did not sign up to be lied to by the commander in chief.

Interestingly, 85% of those who served a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan
re-enlisted when their enlistment anniversary arrived.. Just last week,
the 1st Infantry Division, now on its THIRD tour of duty in Iraq,
reported it met its annual re-enlistment goal in the first six months of
the fiscal year!

It's called stop-loss.

Our troops WANT to be there, they NEED to be there, they ENJOY being
there! We need to support our troops by continuing to provide them with
the opportunity to kill people and blow **** up. Hoo-Rah!

None of my friends that are there believe any of the crap that's being
shoveled at them by the Bush administration.


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