Reply #1: winning the battle for hearts and minds...spreading de-MOCK-racy...

[rppper]

i have really tried to justify such destruction in the name of saving our troops and getting them the hell out of there.....but i find there is none.....war is never the right answer, and i have always known this. but if ever there was a way to not run a war/occupation the right way, we are writing a textbook on it in iraq.

"fuck iraq and every iraqi in it"...yeah...that does us a lot of good...

i am reasonably sure the troops didn't come to iraq thinking this way...instead, imho, it's the mindset of our current "leaders" that has been projected onto them.....the extended tours, the lack of armor, the broken promises, our misunderstanding of the most basic iraqi culture and history...it's all played a role in the situation we are in today. we are despised by the population and now stuck in a position of occupying army that we have never been properly trained for nor currently have the manpower to support.

vietnam in the desert...you think we would have learned our lesson....