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i spent a couple of years in the "other" iraq, which we called viet-nam. as now, we were there for the wrong reason, but this "conflict" seems to be cloaking itself under the mantle of the "war on terrorism." i will do whatever is in my power to support troops involved in armed combat, but i will also question why they are being asked to establish a battle-line on the wrong front. to the best of my knowledge, osama bin laden and his henchmen have yet to be spotted anywhere near iraq; afghanistan and pakistan are where we should be, and where i believe our true enemy is strategizing its next assault...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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