[Rhodes22-list] What I Had In Mind - Brad, a UTube made for you...

[Brad Haslett]

Herb,

Just got home from a Midwest "goat rope" helping the system recover from the
bad weather so I'm tired and this will be short.  Last week I requalled the
leader of an Air Force Reserve F-16 unit back from the "sandbox".  His
words, "we're kicking the shit out of the bad guys".  The locals rat out
their positions, we do the intel to make sure they are really bad, then a
predator blows their asses-away.  If we leave before the job is done they'll
take the place, again.  Whether the Iraqi's can keep their country together
is eventually up to them but they want IQI out of Iraq and so do we.  Bush
43 will be gone soon enough and people will have to find a new motivation
for pulling out of Iraq other than make him look bad.  The stakes are high!

Gone sleeping.

Brad

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:

> I can't say that I agree Robert. I'm on this list, and I don't want them
> home "ASAP". That's the problem, when we start using all encompassing
> phrases like "as soon as POSSIBLE".
>
> It's "possible" for us to surrender our mission, and bring them home.
> That's the way we can do it "soonest". There are two candidates that are
> advocating exactly that.
>
> One of those candidates voted to allow the mission. Now, in order to get
> elected, she's promising to abandon that mission, Shame on her.
>
> Another candidate says that we should never have engaged in that
> mission, that we cannot accomplish the mission, and that's why he's
> abandoning it. Shame on him too.
>
> Another candidate says that no matter the reason we took up the mission,
> we must finish it by winning.
>
> Guess who's going to get my vote?
>
> Robert Skinner wrote:
> > Ed, you are preaching to the choir.
> >
> > I doubt that there is anyone on this list
> > who wishes anything but the best for our
> > women and men in uniform, or who would not
> > want them home ASAP.  This is not Berkley.
> >
> > Our support for the humans does not waver.
> > Viet nam taught us to separate the messenger
> > from the message.  Many of us do have some
> > issues with the message.
> >
> > As to bringing our troops home, the
> > discussion is only about timing and method.
> > The guys in country only know, "With your
> > shield or on it."
> >
> > Semper Fi,
> > /Robert
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Tootle wrote:
> >
>
> --
> Herb Parsons
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>
>
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