This is a great post. Thank you for sharing Bruce.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Having fought in both Desert Storm and OIF, I'll say this: > > I fully supported Desert Storm, as did most of the world. To me it was a > just war for a good cause. Nuff said. > > Regarding OIF, I was all for it. I believed that there were WMD's (proof > was finally discovered recently), and I believed that Saddam should not > have stayed in power. However, I completely am against how the war was > executed almost from the beginning. With Rumsfeld supporting a much smaller > invasion force, to the complete dismantling of the Iraqi Army (IA). There > were several mistakes made in the opening of the war. One of the biggest > ones was assuming that Turkey would be OK with the 4th Infantry Division > launching their part of the invasion from their country. Of course this > never happened, so we ended up invading Iraq from only the South, not the > North and South as was originally planned. That left an entire Mechanized > Infantry division with nothing to do but float around the ocean until they > could reach a Southern port to move in. > > Dismantling the IA did nothing more than produce home grown insurgents > since the Army was the only source of income for these men. And then trying > to rebuild the IA didn't work out well either as they had neither the > inclination to learn our tactics nor did they have any motivation to > actually try and fight the insurgents since 1). The IA, like the Afghan > Army were infiltrated with Taliban, and 2). As long as coalition forces > were there, they knew that we'd do most of the fighting. The result is > unfolding in that country now. An Army that was otherwise well equipped, > but soldiers that are lazy and cowardly. > > I'm completely against an further action from our servicemen and women > today beyond protecting the Embassy and the personnel assigned to work > there. No advise and assist teams should step foot into that country. They > had the opportunity to have us stay longer to continue training their sorry > ass soldiers, but Maliki didn't want to sign a Status of Forces Agreement > (SOFA), so we cut bait and left. Now that the shit has hit the fan, Maliki > is all for a SOFA. I say tough shit. You got what you wanted - Coalition > forces out of your country. Now deal with the consequences on your own. > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have all my emails from this list since I joined, and occasionally I > > will search them to find a post that I made. Today, just for fun, I > > searched for posts I made or replied to about Iraq, curious to see > > how much - if any - my opinion had changed. Not much. > > > > But I was stunned by how different the views posted lately by some of > > the list members vary from what they felt back in 2004/2005. > > > > If you changed your mind about the Iraq War, I am curious as to why. > > Also, how do you feel about troops going back in to attempt to fix the > > current mess. > > > > Anyone feel like sharing? > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371082 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
