Re:All is rite in normalville
Please be advised in visiting this time.
Note that on this day, that the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings are going on?
Please know that Barbra Boxer of California, had cornered Congalezza Rice durring the senate confermations.She had bantered her, on the true motivation of why Iraq was invaded, if weapons of mass destruction were not evident.
Ms. Rice countered, but not very well, as she was compromised in having to cover for the Bush Administration.
The story behind the new war in Iraq at this time, differs from the late 1980s era stile of war, as there is now not only control of Iraq from the air, however an occupational force inside of Iraq as well.
One has to turn back the clock only to see that earlier towards the turn into the 1900s, that Iraq was rallying an army to repel a British occupational force.
So this conflict, just as in the Vietnam conflict, seems to have neither rhyme or reason, however goes on.
Please understand, "I'm not getting political here", but am only telling the unfolding events, as they have gone on.
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Rice Links Iraq Withdrawal to Security
(AP) - Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice told senators on Tuesday that a U.S. exit strategy from Iraq depends on that country's ability to defend itself against terrorists after this month's elections. She vowed to work to ease ties with allies frayed by U.S. policy there. "The world is coming together behind the idea that we have to succeed in Iraq," she asserted at a confirmation hearing on her nomination to replace Colin Powell in the top foreign policy post. More ...
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Creedo continues>If you will note how the Vietnam war had strarted, with U.S. involvement, the Vietnam, war was really a leftover of a brushfire war, which started in 1947, involving the then Vietminh.
This was started with U.S. involvement under John F. Kennedy and after Kennedy was assassinated, this war became Lyndon B. Johnson's war.
There is noted in historie's eyes, even though there seems to be a now attempt to erase these past events, a brisk business in the black market in then certain sections of Saigon.
There were places in open air markets, were one could purchase fatigues, or Army cloths, automatic weapons of any sort, as well as sometimes heavier ordnances, along with any type of vehicle that you desired.
The black market was good business in Vietnam then.
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The new Iraq war, it seems also has its black markets, which do help keep the economy moving, but at a rate to which only the users of those markets would understand.
So' maybe out of suripticous decisions, also arise hidden economies that we all do not know about?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0508/p01s01-usmi.html
Parallels can also be drawn between atrocities in Vietnam, as mentioned in the book Brennan's War. Brennan's war was a well placed book, about how young Americans had adjusted to the new sociological environments in Vietnam.
The Abu Ghraib hazing, could, with other foe-pas that occupational troops have performed there, as in war, there is always retributions and frustrations aired.abu>
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3836 Brennan's Wa>
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/e152859bb3de237fa19afeb4da09e526.html
The Islamics on the other hand, did not perform their executions as per true to Islamic law, which entitled those to be beheaded, as swift killing, via a very large and weighted sword.
See In Brennas War, Viet Gong caught in wire, scean where has lost body part, however troops place can of soda in the V.C.'s deceased hand:Note attrocities were on both sides, of the Vietnam War.
So knowing these facts, all is rite in normalville.
There was no reason for the Vietnam War other than it happened.
It was once said in an article that I was privileged to read and a say from a friend who had been there, that these people had been fighting for thousands of years and we had just wandered into it.
I'm sure, in some respects, the same may also occur with the New Iraq Republic; but who are we to question orders.It is our mission but to do or die.