I think he was smoking some herb (during the Viet-Nam war, when he was
supposed to be on duty in the air force).
And he was drinking a lot too.
But that's all over now.. His last buzz is Religious Enligntenment through
the practice of War.
Bill
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I heard he scored some grass from the Canadian PM.
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Mr. Bush has enmeshed us in a war that we can't win and that we
don't
know how to end. Each loss of a life in this tragic exercise is a
reminder of lessons never learned from history.
Remind me of the lessons learned from history. One that I remember
well
was
that you pummel your enemy to smithereens so they don't get up again.
You
show compassion only after it is all finished with, not listening to
the
'international community' and weakening your position.
That's exactly what Bush did when he decide to attack Iraq.
The Marines were just getting ready to blast Fallujah to a pulp and
along
comes an Iraqi general 'offering' to help ! And he gets listened
too.
Marvelous isn't it. The general's future army was going down the
drain
fast
and he jumped in to be 'helpful'.
The Marines could have waited until all the boy scouts with guns had
run
out
of amunition if they had wanted to. But the 'compassionate general'
spooks you. You listened to WORDS instead of finishing the job and it
will
cost you more lives.
Stan Pierce.
I am sorry to say this, but it does not seem you have learnt any
lessons.
The war was won. The after-war has been lost. It is already lost. This
administration had one full year to restablish order in Iraq, to bring
back
water, and electricity. In one full year the occupation forces have been
unable to bring iraq to the level it had before the invasion, let alone
improve the conditions of living. Ths after war has been lost. Now, it
does
not matter what Americans do. If they leave, they will be seen as
cowards.
If they stay, they will be seen as stubborn. If they stay and fight they
can
either lose, in which case their enemies will celebrate, or they can
win.
But they can only win by inflicting heavy losses among civilians, and
that
will show them as callous. Any way they choose, they lose.
The only way they could win would be by entering the cities, and
fighting
street by street, and going for the combatants while avoiding (as much
as
can be expected) civilian population. But that cannot be done without
heavy
losses on the American side. The public will not stand for that, and the
president will not stand for that in an election year. So now the
options
are either you run away, or you kill Arabs by the hundreds of thousands.
I guess the Netanyahu was right when he said Americans would learn to
feel
like Israelis. All that blood, all that money, all that time, wasted. Of
course, you can win by treating them like beasts. Only problem is that
you
too become a beast.
VV
.
