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[Scott]

In the wake of Sen. Kerry's "more sensitive war on terror" remark, Frank J. at IMAO has come up with a list of ways to do that. I think he's got a mole in Kerry's campaign!

[JN173]

[Bill Levinson]

Every American over there should draw a dotted line around his/her neck to assist the insurgent who beheads them.

French terror alert levels, lowest to highest
(1) Hide
(2) Run
(3) Surrender
(4) Collaborate
(5) "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is His Prophet."
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--Bill
http://www.stentorian.com/politics/kerry Growing dossier on John Kerry's lack of character, ethics, and integrity. Free leaflets, Election 2004

[Scott]

[Fabius Cunctator]

About a month ago I had an interesting conversation with a brigadier general about the problem of the insurgency in Fallujah (and what we should have done back in the spring when Sadr and his Mahdi army started acting up). I reminded him of how our government screwed up the conduct of the Vietnam War so damned much for "political" reasons. I flat out said that the way to break the back of this insurgency and punish those guilty for the beheadings of US and allied personnel would be to do either one of two things: either take a page from the book of Marcus Licinius Crassus who suppressed the slave revolt of Spartacus in the year 79 BC, or take a page from the KGB in Lebanon in the early 1980's. In the former case, Crassus crucified (nailed to crosses) every rebel captured alive on the road from Capua to Rome. After that, Rome never had a slave revolt for the rest of its history. I told him that if I were the theater commander, I would crucify 10 insurgents for every beheading (those who no longer had any intelligence value). In the latter case, I believe some Soviet nationals had been kidnapped in Lebanon around the time we were sent packing in 1983. Apparently the KGB got to work, found out who the guilty culprits were, got them, hacked them to pieces and sent the body parts with a warning to their families. Seems that after that, no more Soviets were kidnapped in that part of the world.

The reaction I got from this general was extremely instructive. We're not serious about winning this war. If this is what our senior military leadership thinks, then imagine what the civilian leadership must think.

Oh, I have heard the typical reactions about American soldiers not doing this that and the other thing. Folks, we are not at war with the German Wehrmacht, which more or less adhered to the Geneva convention and the equivalent of Marquis of Queensbury rules for war. [Contrast the difference in the conduct of the Pacific War with that in the European theater.] We are at war with barbaric savages, who do not understand "sensitivity" and other such crap. Their response to that PC junk is that we are weak and ripe for the picking. WE HAVE TO BREAK THEIR BACK and keep up the pressure on them. This letting up again today in Najaf is bullsh^t, and THIS IS UNDER PRESIDENT BUSH. What the hell do you think it would be like under a President Kerry (God forbid!)?????

Sir John Fisher had it right - "The essence of war is violence; moderation in war is imbecility." - John A. Fisher, Lord of Kilverstone, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty (1841-1920)


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Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator
USMCR – 1974 to the present.

"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum; qui victoriam cupit, milites inbuat diligenter; qui secundos optat eventus, dimicet arte, non casu. Nemo provocare, nemo audet offendere quem intellegit superiorem esse, si pugnet." - F. Vegetii Renati Epitoma Rei Militaris, AD 390

[Beatrice1000]

[Fabius Cunctator]

Beatrice1000,

Of course, my question on what Kerry would do was rhetorical; as you pointed out in your post, we all know how he would go about it.

As a senior military officer, I do not, of course, advocate across the board inhumane or barbarous behavior, only dealing ruthlessly against those bearing arms against us. I reaffirm the innate humanity of our troops, who build schools, feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty innocent unfortunates caught in the middle. I seek nothing more than the way we conducted ourselves in past wars. The war in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945 should be our model. We were dealing with an inhumane enemy, fanatical and suicidal (sound familiar??), and wiped him out wherever we found him. Nonetheless, after our landing in Okinawa, after defeating the kamikazes, we fed innocent Japanese women and children wherever we found them. We did it before successfully; if we learn the right lessons from our own history, we can succeed here.

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator
USMCR – 1974 to the present.

"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum; qui victoriam cupit, milites inbuat diligenter; qui secundos optat eventus, dimicet arte, non casu. Nemo provocare, nemo audet offendere quem intellegit superiorem esse, si pugnet." - F. Vegetii Renati Epitoma Rei Militaris, AD 390

[Beatrice1000]

[nickb]

“We help fulfill that promise not by lecturing the world, but by leading it. Precisely because America is powerful, we must be sensitive about expressing our power and influence. Our goal is to patiently build the momentum of freedom, not create resentment for America itself. We pursue our goals, we will listen to others. We want strong friends to join us, not weak neighbors to dominate. In all our dealings with other nations, we will display the modesty of true confidence and strength.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010305.html



“Now, in terms of the balance between running down intelligence and bringing people to justice obviously is—we need to be very sensitive on that.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040806-1.html

[Bill Levinson]

[Bill Levinson]

[NavyChief]

Scott's got talent... I love it. I'll have to send that one around to my emailing list.

Way to go Scott
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Working with Senator Kerry four years in the POW/MIA Office left me thinking -- when did the man ever do any work?

[Scott]

Thanks, NavyChief, but the talent isn't mine.

Frank J. at IMAO www.imao.us/ wrote the list. It can be found at www.imao.us/archives/001775.html.

He also writes a regular feature on his blog titled "My World" that's absolutely hysterical.

When you pass the list around, please include a link to www.imao.us/.
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Bye bye, Boston Straggler!

[blu3_skyz]

That's great! What the hell was Kerry thinking, a sensitive war.

[Bill Levinson]

International financier George Soros http://www.stentorian.com/politics/kerry/#soros has called the United States a "danger to the world." There is no doubt that Soros gets along quite well with France (despite being convicted of inside trading by that country) because France is not a danger to anything. France was certainly not a danger, for example, to the Nazis.

It is very easy to imagine the "more sensitive" warfare that Monsieur Jean Frenchpoodle Kerrie would wage on the perpetrators of 9/11. Some ideas:

(1) Sing Kumbaya and ask "why can't we all just get along."
(2) Negotiate and ask them what we have to do to stop them from hurting us.
(3) Force our women to wear burquas.
(4) Convert to militant "Islam."
(5) Roll over and die.

If we did these things, no one could possibly accuse us of being insensitive (unless victims of terrorism were given Christian or Jewish funerals; this would be very insensitive to the militant "Islamic" world.)
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--Bill
http://www.stentorian.com/politics/kerry Growing dossier on John Kerry's lack of character, ethics, and integrity. Free leaflets, Election 2004