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It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound.
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June 15th, 2004 at 10:34 am
The numbers never lie. Thanks for the link!
June 15th, 2004 at 11:16 am
When does the clock start? When the “troops” are amassed, or when the first shot is fired? Once the first shot was fired at Waco, it didn’t take long, for better or worse…
June 15th, 2004 at 1:11 pm
Yeah, if Janet used 500 pound bombs, I don’t think it would have taken her any longer than it took in Iraq.
June 15th, 2004 at 2:50 pm
And yet, Brian, the results would have been the same.
June 15th, 2004 at 3:21 pm
I actually think Les’ post is a brilliant example of apples-to-buicks comparisons.
Let’s compare homicides in a high-crime US city with war-related combat deaths in a foreign country. Yeah, there’s a valid comparison. I wonder how many homicides there were in Baghdad this year that weren’t “combat-related.”
Germany didn’t attack us, and neither did Iraq. That makes WWII and W’s Iraq war the same thing, right? No, he doesn’t say that, but what’s the point of his comparison if not that. Never mind that Germany was actively invading countries (including US allies) and exercising an imperialistic agenda, while Saddam Hussein was basically contained. The Germans didn’t attack us, so that makes us invading Iraq okay.
And then he brings up the Viet Nam stuff. Yeah, because it’s liberals who hold up the Viet Nam war as a shining example of successful US policy; liberals never acknowledge that Viet Nam was a huge mistake. Yeah, sure…
Meanwhile Bush has “liberated” two countries, provided you don’t look anywhere other than Kabul, Kandahar, and Baghdad. Iraq is “free” now. In fact, the entire US military presence could leave tomorrow and everything would be peachy!
June 15th, 2004 at 4:26 pm
One small technicality. Hitler did declare war on the US. December 11th…and had been hitting our shipping in the Atlantic for months prior. The Reuben James went down in October of 1941.
Then again, formal declarations of war are so gauche. No country would open themselves up to unrestrained warfare against the US. No, better to kill our citizens, flaunt the UN secres 671 that ended the first Gulf War, try and assassinate Bush I…and keep fencesitters languishing in their moral quandry. Meanwhile the actual malice that exists in a real declared war still occurs, people still die etc.
Basically Hitler taught every two bit dictator not to openly declare war on the US, just keep your violence on the downlow.
June 15th, 2004 at 4:51 pm
Drake:
No, better to kill our citizens, flaunt the UN secres 671 that ended the first Gulf War, try and assassinate Bush I…
I wasn’t aware that Hussein had killed ANY of our citizens in at least a decade. And the Bush I assassination stuff is ancient history. Most people agree that Hussein was scoffing at UN resolutions, but not many agree that invasion was the only (or even the best) possible remedy. None of which is terribly relevant to Les’ post.
June 16th, 2004 at 1:35 am
When did we stop losing troops in the “taken” Iraq??
And if Janet Reno is responsible for the death of every innocent in that compound, then Shrub is equally responsible for the death of every innocent in Iraq. Just more of them.
Or are all Iraqis automatically guilty of something if we blow them up??
June 17th, 2004 at 6:40 am
Tom, are you seriously considering that any attempt on a former president should be forgotten? Swept under the rug?