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To: Sub-Driver
Kerry Strategy:
  1. Demand that we defeat the insurgency
  2. Deligitimize the means of doing so
  3. Repeat

Kerry was doing this on Face The Nation. If you read the transcript, immediately after his "terrorizing" comment, Scheiffer sensibly (considering that these raids are a primary and indispensable component of the anti-insurgency efforts) asks Kerry if he means that we shouldn't fight the insurgents.

Kerry says no, and adds that we should be "going after hard intelligence" and "going after Zarqawi" using "Special Forces". What are Kerry's "special forces" supposed to do? Sit in a bunker somewhere and pull "hard intelligence" out their clymers?

Kerry is either an idiot, or he knows damn well that "special forces" work with regular forces to gather intelligence via these raids, and that this is exactly how we got Saddam, with hundreds and hundreds of these raids. Nor did we respect Arab "customs" in doing so. One custom, for instance, being that you don't ask Arabs about their families and other close personal relations -- but doggedly prying into such relations (by interrogations; confiscating computers, letters and photos; etc) were precisely what allowed the military to zero in on Saddam.

130 posted on 12/09/2005 7:47:28 AM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis

Everyone knows that part of Special Force duties are to hand out special hats as momentos for "secret" cruises up the Mekong to Cambodia.

Must have been "super-duper-secret" since the crew said that they, nor the boat, ever went on Apocalypse(?)Now.


138 posted on 12/09/2005 8:00:10 AM PST by Bob from De
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