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2008-10-08 Iraq

"Hey! Mainstream media....Why not try demoralizing the enemy for a change?"

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-10-08 15:36|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The army is becoming progressively harder to categorize in terms of morale. An army new to the field is "green". After they have fought for a while, they become "experienced". In past, when they have been in the field too long, and they and their equipment need rest and repair or replacement, they are "tired."

But how to describe this army? At this stage of an occupation in the past, they were no longer carrying weapons, and even wearing civilian clothes when off duty. But not now. They are still primed to fight an enemy they have essentially wiped out, or fight their next enemy. Which is a very real possibility.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-08 17:02|| 2008-10-08 17:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the label you are looking for is "Bad Ass".

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-08 17:21|| 2008-10-08 17:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I have long felt that if the West was all onboard together (either fighting with the US or keeping quiet) the war would have been over fairly quickly. Not just our European 'allies' but our own media and the useful idiots that spread lies about Bush and war for oil and which gave the bad guys the idea that the US would cave any minute if they just killed enough civilians and hung out a little longer.

History will not look kindly on many. The US Military however I think will come through nicely.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-08 18:43|| 2008-10-08 18:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Yep, rj. I came to the conclusion that the only reason Hussein refused to back down and kept everyone believing he had WMD was that he was more afraid of Iran than the US alliance - that he figured from all our internal dissension that we were less likely to attack him to get rid of imaginary WMD than the Iranians were if they knew they were imaginary.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-10-08 19:31|| 2008-10-08 19:31|| Front Page Top

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