Comments on: The Cowards In Congress Are Ready To Appease The Terrorist http://tampapirate.com/2006/11/13/the-cowards-in-congress-are-ready-to-appease-the-terrorist/ If this be treason, make the most of it! PATRICK HENRY (Founding Father / Radical) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark Spence http://tampapirate.com/2006/11/13/the-cowards-in-congress-are-ready-to-appease-the-terrorist/#comment-394 Mark Spence Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:53:43 +0000 http://tampapirate.com/?p=216#comment-394 You have misread my post than and my numerous other posts which state that exact point. The way we have been fighting the war is 100% wrong. We have half-stepped our way through this since the beginning. If we would have crushed their military right off the bat instead of allowing many of them to vanish into the countryside while we raced to Baghdad and to secure the oil pumps and pipelines we would be fighting a different war today. The only way to win now is to quit half-stepping and allow our guys to do what they have to restore order to the country. Unfortuntely the biggest problem with trying to fight an insurgent war is that our liberal media watches our guys with a microscope and expects us to play fair while the other side can operate however they want with no morals being imposed on them by anyone. They can blow up cars in crowded squares with women and children standing around, they can attacks mosques and churches with impunity. As far as Al-Qaeda goes you are wrong, Al-Qaeda was formed after the CIA broke their promises and then "cut-n-ran" from Afghanistan during the Afghan/Soviet War of the 1980's. Osama Bin Laden was one of the leader of the resistence fighters that were armed and trained by the CIA to wage their little war. When we left there was a power vacuum and a destroyed country. Than as Bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood saw the U.S. setting up bases in the Middle East they began planning to remove us from the region. They hate us because of our corruption, drugs and Western culture plain and simple. They see us as the infidels and they want our total destruction. They didn't launch the 9/11 attacks against military targets, they did it against civilian and government targets. Read the latest message from the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and you will see the hatred towards us. Thanks for replying and we appreciate your opinion.

You have misread my post than and my numerous other posts which state that exact point. The way we have been fighting the war is 100% wrong. We have half-stepped our way through this since the beginning. If we would have crushed their military right off the bat instead of allowing many of them to vanish into the countryside while we raced to Baghdad and to secure the oil pumps and pipelines we would be fighting a different war today.

The only way to win now is to quit half-stepping and allow our guys to do what they have to restore order to the country. Unfortuntely the biggest problem with trying to fight an insurgent war is that our liberal media watches our guys with a microscope and expects us to play fair while the other side can operate however they want with no morals being imposed on them by anyone. They can blow up cars in crowded squares with women and children standing around, they can attacks mosques and churches with impunity.

As far as Al-Qaeda goes you are wrong, Al-Qaeda was formed after the CIA broke their promises and then “cut-n-ran” from Afghanistan during the Afghan/Soviet War of the 1980’s. Osama Bin Laden was one of the leader of the resistence fighters that were armed and trained by the CIA to wage their little war. When we left there was a power vacuum and a destroyed country. Than as Bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood saw the U.S. setting up bases in the Middle East they began planning to remove us from the region.

They hate us because of our corruption, drugs and Western culture plain and simple. They see us as the infidels and they want our total destruction. They didn’t launch the 9/11 attacks against military targets, they did it against civilian and government targets. Read the latest message from the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and you will see the hatred towards us.

Thanks for replying and we appreciate your opinion.

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]]> By: SufferingFools http://tampapirate.com/2006/11/13/the-cowards-in-congress-are-ready-to-appease-the-terrorist/#comment-393 SufferingFools Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:30:48 +0000 http://tampapirate.com/?p=216#comment-393 Your assessment of the situation is flawed. Al-Qaeda believes we are weak due to the ineffectiveness of command and the misappropriation of funds from the active military to corporate interests. The forces on the ground were under equipped and the billions which should have gone towards securing their safety and rebuilding a sustainable infrastructure in Iraq went to corporations such as Haliburton. The situation in Iraq was instigated by greed and allowed to degrade as the contractors reaped the rewards. A new strategy must be defined to move forward both in Iraq and also to begin to restore our national integrity in the world. That strategy must include a more intelligent use of military assets.

Your assessment of the situation is flawed. Al-Qaeda believes we are weak due to the ineffectiveness of command and the misappropriation of funds from the active military to corporate interests. The forces on the ground were under equipped and the billions which should have gone towards securing their safety and rebuilding a sustainable infrastructure in Iraq went to corporations such as Haliburton. The situation in Iraq was instigated by greed and allowed to degrade as the contractors reaped the rewards.
A new strategy must be defined to move forward both in Iraq and also to begin to restore our national integrity in the world. That strategy must include a more intelligent use of military assets.

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