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Current Events » in reply to As I said before, it is time to bring in the B-52Hs and B1-Bs while they are surrounded.

Winning hearts and minds of the "next bunch of assholes"

All I have to do is sit down and read some more tripe of how to be the bigger bad-ass. You jerks who think we need to eliminate portions of a society that never asked us to be there, were no threat, and not stand up to us in our arrogance......well, you just don't get it, do you?

If some group of people invaded YOUR home, took your money and possessions, said they were liberating you (of your money and your weapons), what would YOU DO?
Lay down and take it? Not fight back if you had a chance?
That place was a cesspool long before we got there. It used to be THEIR mess, now it's ours.

And Gung-ho Gary, you never even noticed the hypocrisy of your statement:
>"We could wipe out Fallujah by carpet bombing the place and completely piss of the rest of Iraq." Then you add in the next breath
>"The trick is to deny them any propaganda advantage before the USMC exterminates them." OR "However the USMC will have gone the extra distance in terms of winning Iraqi hearts and minds before we wipe the place out."

The whole of Iraq could become this quagmire and your only solution is to keep killing them off until they bend, or until there's no-one left. Attitudes like yours miss the problem, and the answer.
With thoughts like these, there is no answer, only senseless retribution.
Considering it US who is wrong to be there in the first place, maybe you ought to re-think your obsession with winning.

Democracy, my foot!

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