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WOW.
The one thing i often think about is Colin Powell and how he was never that keen on the war in Iraq.
Rumsfeld and Cheney used the media to label him a chicken and out of step with the administration. They tried to isolate him and were actively campaigning to get him turfed from the administration. (I hear now that he will not under any circumstances be part of any George Bush cabinet should Bush be re-elected.)
The truth of the matter is that of all of the "chicken hawks" in the Bush administration (- Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeldt) none of them actually fought in any war and they don't understand what it's like. I would love to send the three of them to Iraq to actually fight in a ground battle and see men killed first hand. To know what it's really like.
Powell who was so roundly criticised actually did two tours in Vietnam. He (like the article above) understands EXACTLY what war is really about. He has sent men to die, he has fought himself, and he has seen the carnage of war first hand.
He (Powell) knows that war is not a video game. The chicken hawks have NO CLUE.
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