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07-09-2007, 06:51 PM
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Iraqi Village Disappears....Where did the People Go?
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/...d-children.htm
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...p;only&rss Check out the pics in his gallery to see what happen to the Iraqi village. Al Qaeda is adopting Viet Cong tactics. Those of you who are too young to know about Vietnam, the US strategy was to win the hearts-and-minds. The Viet Cong strategy was to terrorize the people into cooperating. We know which technique was more effective.... The main difference between Iraq and Vietname terror tactics is Al Qaeda is largely foreigners (Saudis, Yemenis, Gypos, etc...) and in Vietnam it was fellow Vietnamese during the terrorizing... Iraqis have a some sense of national identity and these terror tactics are back-firing as shown by Sunni Shieks joining the USA/UK to fight Al Qaeda... 
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07-10-2007, 10:31 AM
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Ah.....You Speak of John F Kerry.
Ahhhhhh.....You Speak of John F Kerry and his confessed attrocities after joining the anti-Vietnam War movement. Yes, we all know Kerry is a scumbag.
The fact the American Democrat party accepts/elects such a person to their party speaks volumes about them.
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07-10-2007, 10:33 AM
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Re: Ah.....You Speak of John F Kerry.
I heart partisan politics.
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07-10-2007, 10:41 AM
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Re: Ah.....You Speak of John F Kerry.
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Ahhhhhh.....You Speak of John F Kerry and his confessed attrocities after joining the anti-Vietnam War movement. Yes, we all know Kerry is a scumbag. The fact the American Democrat party accepts/elects such a person to their party speaks volumes about them. [/ QUOTE ] My Lai. Can't we all agree that neither side was a saint in the war? I do have a tendency to believe that proportionally speaking, American troops committed less atrocities than the Viet Cong. No evidence for it (don't think you could ever find out for sure, anyways).
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07-09-2007, 08:05 PM
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Re: Iraqi Village Disappears....Where did the People Go?
The problem was, in Vietnam, that the Diem and Thieu administrations used terror to get the people to cooperate. As did the United States. After all, we dropped more bombs than were dropped in prior history on South Vietnam, the place we were supposed to be defending; we destroyed villages in order to "save" them. Not a great strategy for winning hearts and minds.
Jeffrey Race's book War Comes to Long An goes a long way toward explaining why the Communists won in Vietnam. It wasn't because of terror. At least not theirs.
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07-09-2007, 08:21 PM
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Re: Iraqi Village Disappears....Where did the People Go?
I note that one of the links says, "a horrifying story of radical Islamic depravity, ignored by a Western media that focuses exclusively on Western transgressions." I'm a mainstream media guy and I know a lot about radical Islamic depravity. They don't operate in my name with my tax dollars.
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#10
07-09-2007, 09:07 PM
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Re: Iraqi Village Disappears....Where did the People Go?
Michael Yon's blog is mandatory reading for anyone who cares about what's happening in Iraq today.
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