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I have absolutely no clue how anyone could compare the Gallipoli Campaign to the Iraq War unless you’re smoking Turkinsh Poppies. Is this how we teach history now? Just make it up as we go along?

The Iraq war seems more like Gallipoli

In some sense LGM is correct. The problem is that Iraq is a far more important region in the War on Terror than Gallipoli was during WWI.

I do disagree with those (and I presume LGM is among those) who would just pull up and leave Iraq ala the way we pulled out of South Vietnam.

What has been done has been done..we would be even bigger fools to leave Iraq now. However it is done this way, it would increase pressure to REALLY secure the Northern and Southern US borders.

On June 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm, Tantor said:
I don’t know what it would take to stop the invasion. the main,

That is Ok, either did the War Department. There was most certainly more than one invasion plan and numerous casualty estimates. Finally someone had to make a decision and that became The Plan and The Estimate. From the research I did, and only for a college paper years ago, one problem in all the plans is they had so little inteligence on Japan. The first invasion of Japan, battle for Okinawa, estimated casualties were 10,000+ but ended up over 50,000 and we lost 36 ships. That had to panic a lot of people.

If one island took 50,000 casualties just what would the next battle take?
Hard decisions for hard times. The Japs told their women and children to jump off the cliffs. If they did not care why would we? Hell, bombs kill people; big bombs, little bombs, atomic bombs.

One of my Professors in College was Dr. Lester I Tenney. He was a POW laborer at the Mitsui coal mines at Hiroshma. Read his story. The Bomb was good. It saved at least some POWs.
A Mitsubishi- Eclipse of Ethics presentation

Survivor of the Bataan Death March

And if anyone is still weepy eyed over dead Japs read his book
My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March

Unlike too many wimps of today most of that generation had their head on straight. They realized it was better to kill them then to let them kill you. Somehow I just don’t see how that is so difficult. As Tantor pointed out the A bomb may have saved Japs. There is always a downside I guess.

Now the Viet Nam vets are growing old and passing at an increasing rate. And the scum who called us dirty names often run the news media and universities. One of those SOBs became president. Where you one of those lgm?

The Iraq war seems more like Gallipoli.

Whad are you a f*ckin’ assh*le? Our boys aren’t going ‘over the top’ straight into Turkish machine gun fire and getting ground to shreds. However they do have to sign a 57 page release form in triplicate before returning fire on the enemy ragheads who are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at them.

lgm if I had the power in this country I’d send you and your ilk to internment camps to become reeducated capitalists. I hate liberals to my core. You’re all communist sc*m through and through.

On June 6th, 2008 at 11:34 am, RetFireman said:

I suggest you look up the definitions of “Total War” versus what we do now, including attempting to fight a war while restricting the types of attacks and battles we are being allowed to wage, courtesy of the media and Liberals like yourself.

I wasn’t aware that the press or “liberals” planned this whole thing, or were in command. Sorry RetFireman but your pass of the buck is incomplete. 0-1.
While I’m here, I would like to mention Jack Donley, wounded on the Oklahoma at Pearl Harbour. As his hometown papers headline proclaimed “Liberal Boy Hurt at Pearl”. We miss you Jack!

It’s saddening, the left wing views it differently.