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You get word that someone is an insurgent. You bust up their home and take everything they have that is of value so they can't sell it to buy weapons. Maybe arrest them.
But how good is your intel? Bad, I'd guess. It's just some officer's decision on how trusting the source is.
What do they do with the money? They say they write reciepts, but they don't very often apparently.
People seem to forget the realities of war. In war, there's no time for due process and other niceties. Our forces will stay there, and there will be war until there is some semblance of order. If we leave too soon there will be open civil war (both conventional and terrorist). While we stay, there will be war. War against us, and all the bad PR associated with an occupying power.
Meanwhile, apart from all the factions in Iraq using the US military for their own gain, the real terrorists, whose goal is eradication of western influence, are using our bad PR for their own gain.
Now tell me again, what danger did Hussein pose to us, two years ago?
You get word that someone is an insurgent. You bust up their home and take everything they have that is of value so they can't sell it to buy weapons. Maybe arrest them.
But how good is your intel? Bad, I'd guess. It's just some officer's decision on how trusting the source is.
What do they do with the money? They say they write reciepts, but they don't very often apparently.
People seem to forget the realities of war. In war, there's no time for due process and other niceties. Our forces will stay there, and there will be war until there is some semblance of order. If we leave too soon there will be open civil war (both conventional and terrorist). While we stay, there will be war. War against us, and all the bad PR associated with an occupying power.
Meanwhile, apart from all the factions in Iraq using the US military for their own gain, the real terrorists, whose goal is eradication of western influence, are using our bad PR for their own gain.
Now tell me again, what danger did Hussein pose to us, two years ago?
