I'm with you on keeping the media in the dark. I remember that time you referred to. I was in Kuwait City at the time - we had our teams on the border and needless to say, the pucker factor was high at the time.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:52 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: How long? I'm going to briefly make a comment on the first question asked by Howie (how long is this going to take?) If you listened to the President, National Security Advisor or any other of a plethora of people, then this engagement is going to be long and drawn out. They did not put a timetable on it but they did make the hint, repeatedly, that it may be on the scale of years. Take your answer from that, not from some armchair general that doesn't have access to the plans As far as military plans, last I saw I no longer wore a rank insignia nor did I have a security clearance high enough to see plans. Neither does the media. I applaud the President for keeping us in the dark, because I personally have known that "oh crap" feeling when CNN (on a satellite feed) made an interesting report. I was on a 6 month deployment on the USS George Washington (an aircraft carrier) right when Hussein put his troops *back* on the Kuwaiti border (in 1994 if memory serves correctly). We were watching the news on CNN in our shop and all of the sudden they make it known to God, the world and everyone that, "two planes from the USS George Washington, stationed in the Mediterranian Sea, have been sent to provide air support for the conflict." About the time that the newsbabe said "have been sent", we heard both catapults fire, launching the planes that CNN was talking about. Who needs radar when the media is there telling the enemy where everyone is? I am so thankful that the media is being kept in the dark as far as military plans. If it makes the information mongers mad, so what. As far as this statement: > Nick, so its all about America is it? as long as "the land of the free" is > safe then you dont care..... > > jeez, it does make you wonder why someone would hit the U.S.... What do you think the military is for? I pasted in the military oath for enlisted personnel: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." So yes, the actions and activities of the US military are for the US. Their job is to do what their superiors tell them to. C. Hatton Humphrey, Developer Fisher, Towne & Associates 716-839-2141 x336 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:38 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: How long? > > > > <sick> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
