RadioBanter - View Single Post - The CFA de-bagged (Was: First "Del" and now "D'Alembertian"!)

July 15th 05, 08:01 AM

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:32:43 -0500, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

Spend some money on bomb sniffing dogs. It`s the explosions that must
end. Let the bombers find a new way to kill themselves.

Hi Richard,

white house marching orders were to ignore the ammo dumps (museums,
relief agencies, nuke sites, industrial areas, power plants, water
works, ...) to looters and to protect the energy offices in the
capital.

Once the energy offices were secured, new orders to ignore the
wandering deserters, stay out of the desert smuggler lanes, and avoid
borders - to take command of the pipeline.

Once the pipeline was taken, new orders to ignore securing the
pipeline, or protecting the fields and plants, and to shrug off the
terminals and ports until Haliburton arrived.

Once Haliburton arrived, new orders to abandon military operations to
protect foreign workers (from the US of course), and convert aid
workers to informants for intelligence operatives (increasing the
demand on the Armed Forces to protect even more civilians) and to
patrol in advance of civilian operated trucking operations. Military
personnel were diverted from mission to build and secure the "Green
Zone," a soviet style encampment modeled after Kabul during the
(failed) occupation.

Then reduce troop count.

Then raise troop count.

Then extend tours.

Then cap retirement and discharges.

Then institute rotations guaranteed for 10 years out. Not to mention
being humbled into a death gratuity raise, and more pay. Quick
discharge for those medically unfit due to "non-combat" injuries (a
bureaucratic double shuffle).

Clearly there is absolutely no will to win. There is every will to
balance this war on the back of men in uniform though and to rob the
treasury to pay contractors 5 to 10 times as much to do the same work
of a qualified grunt, who has to train these clowns and then take an
RPG while watching their backs.

The draft dodgers and goldbricks that inhabit the administration never
learned the lessons of Vietnam - they had more important things to do
with their life when other men in uniform were preserving freedom and
Democracy and standing against the Communist menace.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC