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billwg
You could say the price was paid if the US had left Iraqi soil. However they haven't and the price is far from paid, it is *continuing* to be paid every day. Thankfully our soldiers are not being end in the same number, but lives are still being lost.
If you put a conventional army in front of the US they will be beaten, no doubt about it. However put a guerrilla army in front of them and they don't know how to deal with that.
They tried carpet planting, the North Vietnamese it didn't work. Problem was they had no factories to plant, all their arms where being supplied by the likes of China etc. North Vietnamese just kept coming at the US until they had had enough.
No YOU are the one that speaks out of ignorance. As the Israeli's would have told you, the Iraqi army was largely a band on conscripts who didn't want to be there, very ill disciplined and quite easy for *any* professional western army to beat. Unlike the North Vietnamese, the Iraqi army soon decided they had had enough when there front line was carpet planted.
begin oeprotect.scr Absolutely. There has never been much support for this war in the UK, it's seen very much as US thing - George Bush's war, with Tony Blair...
Trust me, I know more about Iraq than you will ever realise or be prepared to talk about.
Rubbish, a few days of sustained planting, couple of local battles and occupation was in full swing.
The Israeli's put paid to plans that 20 million Arabs had in the 6 day war, so if the US had not walked over the Iraqi army it would have been a totall embarrbuttment.
Disciplined enough to blow themselves up, and be responsible for a large ongoing loss of life. Whats more it doesn't look like it is likely to come to an end anytime soon. Not a laughing matter.
Point is they have got considerable more stomach for this than the US electorate has for losing their soldiers. More US soldiers have lost their lives while they have been occupying the country than where lost in the initial battle for Iraq. Like I said in the situation that the US now finds itself, (and likely to find itself in future conflicts), stealth planters and all that other fancy gear ain't worth squat!!
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:16:21 GMT, M Most countries weren't ready to go to war against Iraq based on lies and FUD by...
Why do think our boys have been recently sent to Afghanistan. It's because we have the expertise after 30+ years in Northern Ireland.
Regards,
M