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Date Posted: 18:49:13 09/01/02 Sun
Author: vkurry
Subject: Where are the voices

Where are the voices of the people that have served our country in the worst and best of times?

Are we marching again to war? Does anyone know why? I know that this administration has decided that Iraq has made it to the top of the list for some of the same reason that many other countries have. They've got the bio-weapons, the chemical weapons and maybe the big nukes.

Its seems like this to me. Fifteen guys from say Idaho attacked Nevada, so we get ready to attack Kentucky because they might have something to do with it. We can posture around all we want and probably make a pretty good case that Kentucky was friends with some of these guys, but where do we draw the line? We seem to be in a habit of fighting undeclared wars, all of which we seem to lose in one way or another.

Now, we have this war going on in Afghanistan and all along we are thinking that we will be there two maybe three years and then, Gen. Franks (by all measures a fine commander) gets to be the one that says we are committed for twenty to thirty years!!! Whoa hoss....when did this happen. We've already spent enough to buy all of those poor people condos in Florida and now the military seems to be settling down into a phase of holding what they have. The mortar rounds and the rockets are starting to land and just like the Nam, no one seems to know where they are coming from. Who's hiding these guys and where?

I know the military spent a fortune, as usual, on this great radar system that could back track to the point of launch within seconds, bring some heavy action to bear on that spot. Hmmmm....maybe that contractor mistated his numbers or something.

I hear on the news recently that the SF caught a truck they knew to be smuggling arms and ammunition through the northern part of the Afghan badlands. Since I am an armchair General I guess I would have followed it to where some one was waiting and then leveled that area, but what the hell do I know?

Now they have a bad land mine problem in that country (as if there is such a thing as a good land mine problem). I was part of a project a few years back that took M60 tank hulls, minus the turret, and installed the electronics to make it operate by remote control. They sent these things to Bosnia to drive down the roads on the theory that as they detonated the mines no one would be injured. I heard it cost around one hundred grand per vehicle and we set up six of them. That seems like a pretty expensive way to detonate a mine although it is cheaper than a loss of life or limb. I have a crackpot theory that if you have to have land mines then they should be bio-degradable after a year or two. If you still need mines in place after a couple of years you have much greater problems than mines. Of course we would be the only country that would have them but then we would only have to look for theirs and not wonder where the hell we left ours.

I'm knocking on your door and wondering what ideas are floating around out there about our current political situation. I see that damm robot Ari Fleicher saying how the American people are at least seventy per cent behind the administration on the way. Then, CNN runs a poll and it landed 79 percent against it. Makes one wonder.

let me know.........

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