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In reply to the discussion: ...and then a man rode through the lines bearing a white flag. [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)in Vietnam or about individual German soldiers in World Wars I and II. One thing about Iraq that most disturbed me was that we had done the exact same fucking thing not 50 years earlier (in Vietnam). Ole Cheney and Bushie boy could smirk and snarl with wild abandon as they moved the troops of their Praetorian Guard around Iraq like pieces on a chessboard. And meanwhile the American middle class snoozed its way through yet another Super Bowl and yet another American Idol, as the bombs fell upon Baghdad, as women and children were tortured by American personnel and contractors.
We had been through this before -- see My Lai and the Phoenix Program -- and I'll be god-damned if we didn't go through it again! In some ways the Iraqi Resistance surpassed its Vietnamese forbears in giving us a good old-fashioned ass kicking, as the Iraqi Resistance had no USSR or China from which to obtain arms and materiel. The Iraqi Resistance in Anbar did it all on its own.