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One of the men from Doolittle's raid who survived Japanese captivity went
back to Japan as a missionary. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired And one of the Japanese participants in Pearl Harbor later became a protestant minister in the US. Ron PA-31T Cheyenne II Maharashtra Weather Modification Program Pune, India |
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Subject: Bush Flew Fighter Jets During Vietnam
From: "ian maclure" Date: 7/19/2004 10:37 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:11:03 +0000, WalterM140 wrote: Was I said was that Kerry didn't seem particularly committed to his crew and his oath to serve since he took an "early out" from Vietnam. That early out took being wounded three times. So Trotskerry sez. The doctor who treated at least one of those booboos and his CO at the time would beg to differ. Kerry had to volunteer three times to get that early out. He had to volunteer for the Navy. He had to volunteer for Viet Nam. And he had to volunteer for the Swift Boats. Bet he thought he'd spend his time swanning around the TOnkin Gulf Yacht Club. Bet he was surprised. I wonder if his experience in the Swift Boats didn't sour him on the war. If he opted out of being killed for a mistake, I'd say it would be hard to gainsay him. Hmmm, does the chronology match with Johnson realizing he'd well and truly screwed the pooch and deciding to skidaddle? He had an honorable out and he took it. Nah, he chickened and ran. And you of course stayed in after your three Purple Hearts and a SIlver star. Right? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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He is dead wrong in his support of Bush for reelection, IMHO. Bush
has cost our nation dearly with his unacknowledged mistakes and gaffes, and if we are to believe the saying that "when you're in the hole, the first thing you've got to do is to stop digging" then it's clearly time for a change. What mistakes and gaffes are you referring to? What hole are we in? Well, last night on MSNBC, Chris Mathews quoted Pres. Mubarak of Egypt as saying invading Iraq had created 1,000 Bin Ladens. Bush is a disastrous failure as president. And: "But Zinni broke ranks with the administration over the war in Iraq, and now, in his harshest criticism yet, he says senior officials at the Pentagon are guilty of dereliction of duty -- and that the time has come for heads to roll. Correspondent Steve Kroft reports. “There has been poor strategic thinking in this,” says Zinni. “There has been poor operational planning and execution on the ground. And to think that we are going to ‘stay the course,’ the course is headed over Niagara Falls. I think it's time to change course a little bit, or at least hold somebody responsible for putting you on this course. Because it's been a failure.” Zinni spent more than 40 years serving his country as a warrior and diplomat, rising from a young lieutenant in Vietnam to four-star general with a reputation for candor. Now, in a new book about his career, co-written with Tom Clancy, called "Battle Ready," Zinni has handed up a scathing indictment of the Pentagon and its conduct of the war in Iraq. In the book, Zinni writes: "In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." “I think there was dereliction in insufficient forces being put on the ground and fully understanding the military dimensions of the plan. I think there was dereliction in lack of planning,” says Zinni. “The president is owed the finest strategic thinking. He is owed the finest operational planning. He is owed the finest tactical execution on the ground. … He got the latter. He didn’t get the first two.” Zinni says Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time - with the wrong strategy. And he was saying it before the U.S. invasion. In the months leading up to the war, while still Middle East envoy, Zinni carried the message to Congress: “This is, in my view, the worst time to take this on. And I don’t feel it needs to be done now.” But he wasn’t the only former military leader with doubts about the invasion of Iraq. Former General and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, former Centcom Commander Norman Schwarzkopf, former NATO Commander Wesley Clark, and former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki all voiced their reservations. Zinni believes this was a war the generals didn’t want – but it was a war the civilians wanted. “I can't speak for all generals, certainly. But I know we felt that this situation was contained. Saddam was effectively contained. The no-fly, no-drive zones. The sanctions that were imposed on him,” says Zinni. “Now, at the same time, we had this war on terrorism. We were fighting al Qaeda. We were engaged in Afghanistan. We were looking at 'cells' in 60 countries. We were looking at threats that we were receiving information on and intelligence on. And I think most of the generals felt, let's deal with this one at a time. Let's deal with this threat from terrorism, from al Qaeda.” Mo MR. RUSSERT: Let me show you another excerpt from your {senator Byrd] book: "We keep hearing the refrain, `Stay the course.' What is the course? Is it that we continue sending American troops to be used as sitting ducks in an Iraqi shooting gallery? How long are we going to be fed the pap that fighting the terrorists on the streets of Baghdad saves us from fighting terrorists on the streets of New York City or Washington, D.C.?" Mo 4-Star Marine General Says Time To Get Rid Of Neocons `The Neo-Cons Have Had Their Day - Now It's Time for a Clean Sweep' Executive Intelligence Review Interview With Gen. Joseph P. Hoar By Jeffrey Steinberg EIR 5-31-4 Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (USMC-ret.), a four-star general, was Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (1991-94), commanding the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf after the 1991 war. He also served in the Vietnam War, as a battalion and brigade advisor with the Vietnamese Marines. He was interviewed by Jeffrey Steinberg on May 6, 2004. EIR: You were one of the people who had been critical before the outbreak of fighting, over whether or not the situation warranted going to war. I believe you also had some rather accurate warnings about what might happen, as the war unfolded, especially after the hot phase. What's your thinking on these issues now, in hindsight, as we're over a year past the formal fighting phase? Hoar: There's small comfort in realizing that perhaps you were closer to reality than the elected and appointed figures in the civilian government. Those of us that have had some experience in the region over the years, and don't necessarily have ulterior motivations, particularly people that know very much about Iraq?and I don't necessarily put myself in that category; specifically, I know a fair amount about the political-military situation in the region, but know enough about Iraq to know that any military operation and any subsequent reconstruction efforts, to include the interjection of democracy, were going to be extremely difficult, and perhaps impossible. But, my major concern, Jeff, really was, that while I was in favor of regime change, I was not in favor of it a year and a half or two years ago, and certainly not these means." KIA count in Iraq: 915 For nothng. Walt |
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I can think of no action more despicable than false public
condemnation of warriors on the field of battle, as John Kerry made under oath. I don't think anyone has shown that Senator Kerry made any untruthful statements in his 1971 testimony. snip clueless reference But what does a news story about former senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska have to do with that? Can you show that Kerry made false statements back in 1971? Walt |
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