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Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War
Noah Shachtman writes "The Iraq war was launched on a theory: That, with the right networking gear, American armed forces could control a country with a fraction of the troops ordinarily needed. But that equipment never made it down to the front lines, David Axe (just back from his 6th trip to Iraq) and I note in this month's Popular Science. That's a problem, because the insurgents are using throwaway cellphones and anonymous e-mail accounts to stitch together a network of their own."
Under Saddam people were limited, yes. No bad talk about islam and Saddam regime and if you would do something funny you could be in trouble. OK.
We also had hospitals, police, electricity, flowing water, some even had computers. We had a good museum in Baghdad which we used to visit to see some of the history of the great country of Iraq. Iraqs history is longer and more complex than most peopl realise. Its not about war, hate and to overthrow muslims, sunnits or christians. Good places, cafes, bars and yes; mosks are really more than your average church. Mosks would also do things for the people
Now we been "freed". We can goto Baghdad and use internet cafes, we could get a cellphone and maybe soon eat a hamburger at mac donalds. Unfortunatly most people have no more running water, food is scarce, hospitals have been bombed and are hardly rebuild. People are SCARED to walk in the streets afraid for bombings. Some of my family has been without water, food, electricity for MONTHS. Something changed, yeah, local warlords are taking over regions and oppressing peple. Iraqs are now killign each other. So here's to you army of "liberation": FSCK YOU!
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The US made the same mistake in Vietnam when it deployed the F4 phantom aircraft. They decided that their Sparrow III missiles would dominate the skies and beyond visual range air combat would be the norm. Thus it was decided not to equip the F4 with primitive canons. The Russian MIGs decimated the F4's in dog fights because of this lack of a simple canon. It took 2 years for the F-4 to be equipped with a Canon.
This is what happens when decisions are made by people who never actually face combat.
That's how the Republicans work. The only ones that will admit to being Republican nowadays are hardcore, the true believers. You can be sure that they have a weapon on them somewhere. Oh, and they molest children too.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!