Our very own babbling Bush is at it again. Doesn't anybody in the crew without a clue have at least a small grip on reality? Even the average American can remember that his nibs was on vacation during Katrina and couldn't be bothered to help a major city and its inhabitants because he was too busy setting a record for ...wait for it ...vacation days. That he flew back from vacation to sign a useless bill for a brain dead woman, which means that Congress was in session while he was clearing brush.
In his latest radio address, he tries to make the point that the Guard and Reserve troops are going to be sent in without appropriate training and equipment, that some troops stay will be extended and others might have to go to Iraq earlier, like that isn't already happening. How is that any different from the beginning of the war? They were sent in without the proper equipment, were issued shoddy armor and forced to fight in conditions they were unprepared for, or has everybody forgotten the first disaster at An Nasiriyah? The report on that debacle is quite fascinating.
The American people have spoken; their elected representatives have tried to hedge their bets by setting a timetable to go along with all that funding, sort of like paying a loan back to the bank, and the president still feels that he is the decider and everyone else is wrong. He completely ignores the fact that when it was a Republican led Congress, it took longer to pass his spendinhttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifg bills. Since when has doing the will of the people been classified as partisan politics? Why are you still wasting the lives of our troops in a war that can't be won? Chasing ghosts, what a waste.
3Bs
Saturday, April 07, 2007
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You cannot use the battle of Nasiriyah to support your assumptions. I am the author of "Marines in the Garden of Eden." It is the only book to tell the entire story of that bloody battle. I wrote this book for you.
ReplyDeleteI wrote this book for the American people so that they could understand what really happened.
In your post you said:
"They were sent in without the proper equipment, were issued shoddy armor and forced to fight in conditions they were unprepared for, or has everybody forgotten the first disaster at An Nasiriyah? The report on that debacle is quite fascinating."
Well, the 507th Maintenance Company was not "sent in." They were lost. Who was sent in to Nasiriyah? United States Marines were sent in. Specifically, Regimental Combat Team - 2 was "sent in" to Nasiriyah to secure the bridges. They were led by 1st Battalion, 2d Marines. 1/2 was a mechanized infantry company, supported by a company of M1 tanks and riding in Marine AMTRACS. The were also supported by Marine air cover. They were prepared for the fight they encountered.
Richard S. Lowry
www.marinesinthegardenofeden.com
Bush has taken 409 days of vacation since he took office, and has just left for another.
ReplyDeleteIf Bush had worked like normal Americans in those 409 days, look how many more wars and acts of destruction, would have been committed for profit.
www.lydiacornell.com
I understood that they were lost, I read the report.
ReplyDeleteWhen I said they were sent without proper training, etc. I was referring to the majority of troops that were sent to Iraq; they were not all trained in guerrilla warfare and I was using the disaster at An Nasiriyah as an example of the major screwup that we call the war on terror, at this point.
When I was stationed at Ft. Lewis, we were on a midnight blackout run when we ended up in the middle of tank target practice. My CO couldn't read a map and then to compound the problem he wouldn't let us turn on our lights so that they would know we were there. One of the scariest nights of my life, so I sort of understand how they felt, which is another reason I used it as an example.
The whole Iraqi freedom thing is a major debacle that some of us saw coming.