From: David Cole (DavidCole@tk7.net)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 14:40:31 PDT
I don't know who your congressman is, but I certainly wouldn't write my
congressman to find out what is going on. The word clueless comes to mind.
How these guys get in office is beyond me. (I guess the millions of
dollars of campain money didn't hurt.)
What we have in Iraq is an unresolvable situation. We got in, no problem.
Getting out, big problem.
I heard recently that the plan is to keep military forces there for at
least the next two years. I bet it is a lot longer than that.
This really reminds me of Viet Nam when I was growing up. The newscast:
Today we lost X men, which was better than yesterday when we lost Y men.
The total for the week is Z. They were always bad situations that should
have been prevented, it was a surprise attack, a tossed grenade, no way to
stop it etc. BS, the war continues. I think it is going to get worse.
We have no exit strategy. We will be lucky if we don't lose a thousand
guys over there this year. If we leave now, the Shitites take over and it
becomes a right wing extremeist Islamic state. We stay and we take
casualties. If the Iraqi's want democracy, they are going to have to fight
for it just like everyone else. If they don't stand up and fight for it,
we are wasting our time. Not everyone has American values. A lot of
people in the world are quite happy living in a religious state. In fact
they flock there. Look at Israel.
The Iraqi's couldn't stand a frontal attack so it is turning into a
guerilla war. Surprise attacks and ambush.
> Our guys are targets simply because the Pro-Saddam
elements have zero respect for our guys and life in general.
No, we are their enemy. We shoot at them and they shoot back. They don't
want us there. We invaded their country and are now occupying it and some
of them don't like it. (Are you surprised?)
It takes one bullet to kill a guy and we still can't find and kill Sadam or
Osama. For all of the high tech stuff we have, our intelligence network is
really screwed up.
George Bush should have never started this without a clear concise exit
strategy. So far I have seen nothing.
Dave
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:04:45 -0700 (PDT), Employee@MilVeh.com
<milveh@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hearsay? Hmmm...ok, you're right. It is hearsay, but
> since the Joint Chiefs failed to include me in the
> last staff meeting, I'm sorta left to examine the
> issue of adequate armor for myself. lol
>
> Seriously now, yes, I would write my congressman to
> find out if this is true or not, that's it's exactly
> what you should do.
>
> Nothing wrong with asking questions my friend, that is
> how things get fixed or rumors get put to bed. In
> this case my congressman is also a friend and Wally
> wouldn't mind a bit if I asked him. He likes to hear
> whats going around, true or not, just so he can
> respond to it appropriately.
>
> Basing a decision or forming a belief based on nothing
> but hearsay is not wise, but thats not what is going
> on here.
>
> By the way, how many gun trucks have you seen on the
> news running around IraqI streets? Or how many 2.5
> and 5 ton trucks running around with up armor kits? Hmmm... I dunno
> either, but would be nice to know. I
> recall the honcho's saying we gave our troops the
> right equipment in Somalia too, until the S--- hit the
> fan and we found out different.
>
> God bless America - Support our Troops,
>
> Jack-
>
>
>
>
> --- David Cole <DavidCole@tk7.net> wrote:
>> Is this reality or is this hearsay regarding the
>> armor situation?
>>
>> It sounds a bit like someone is trying to promote a
>> product perhaps?
>>
>> I haven't seen any shortage of funds spent on the
>> Iraq situation.
>>
>> I wouldn't write a letter to my congressman based
>> upon a hearsay situation.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:43:08 -0700, eccm@swbell.net
>> <eccm@swbell.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I got the same e-mail in reply to a different
>> subject, but that did
>> > not bother me.
>> >
>> > I did write my representative about the letter by
>> the way.
>> >
>> > That's what matters, about such things. To take
>> any action possible.
>> >
>> > So why not everyone write their rep's about the
>> matter of the letter?
>> >
>> > SGT PJ
>> >
>> > Stu wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It seems this guy is impressed with himself
>> because he says he has 6
>> >> MV's. As we all know, all it takes is money, not
>> brains or common
>> >> sense. He seems to enjoy putting into print just
>> how little of the
>> >> latter two he has. Any moron can own MV's. What's even funnier, is
>> he
>> >> thinks he is impressing us.
>> >>
>> >> "Stu"
>> >> Southern New Hampshire, USA
>> >> "Live Free Or Die"
>> >>
>> >> Military Vehicle Preservation Assoc.
>> >> Merrimack Valley Military Vehicle Collectors
>> >> Green Mountain Military Vehicle Club
>> >> Vehicles:
>> >> 1967 M151A1 Jeep
>> >> 1964 M416 1/4 Ton Trailer
>> >> 1986 M1009 CUCV Blazer
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>> [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
>> >> Behalf Of rertman@ix.netcom.com
>> >> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 12:48 PM
>> >> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>> >> Subject: Re: [MV] Battery pulsers
>> >>
>> >> Actually, Tom, I do care...A LOT. I recently
>> returned from
>> >> the desert where I did my assigned job.
>> >>
>> >> I just wondered why you opted to send your
>> message as a reply
>> >> to a query about batter pulsers rather than as a
>> standalone
>> >> message.
>> >>
>> >> I don't own any MIL vehicles at the moment, but I
>> sure did
>> >> operate in some of them while I was there.
>> >>
>> >> Speaking of caring, I guess you don't care enough
>> to send your
>> >> message under its own subject. Perhaps it's not
>> all really all
>> >> that important to you.
>> >>
>> >> Enough...end of exchange on this subject.
>> >>
>> >> Dick
>> >>
>> >> HFDCOMPANY45@aol.com wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > because this has to do with the troops and
>> trucks and i want people to
>> >> know
>> >> > what is going on.......over sea's But with a
>> remark like that i guess
>> >> you don't care
>> >> > but the way i own 6 MILITARY TRUCK AND &
>> TRAILERS.
>> >> >
>> >> > TOM
>> >>
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>> -- Dave
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