Whoever the Enemy is, We'll Outlast Him (oh, boy)

[HFishbine]

Top Google news stories at this hour
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US Struggles to Determine Who Is the Enemy in Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is struggling to figure out who the enemy is in Iraq, with officials saying they remain foggy about the leadership and organization of the insurgency and analysts decrying a huge intelligence lapse.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=798922&tw=wn_wire_story

Rumsfeld: US Will 'Outlast' Enemy In Iraq

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is denying that the United States is in trouble in Iraq, or has made any decision to pull out early.

Secretary Rumsfeld said U.S. forces will stay in Iraq as long as necessary and, as he put it, "outlast" the enemy.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=582EF55F-D73A-4EAA-B163C66808CF95B5

[Don_G]

1. History Repeats Itself

I heard that all throughout the Vietnam War.

:grr:

[HereSince1628]

3. Exactly, that's why "exist strategy" became a buzzword

How many times has any country ever defeated a guerilla war? There may be one but I can't name it.

[Eloriel]

7. Only on the condition of genocide

Like the White Man in America.

Eloriel

[spanone]

2. Brilliant war plans.......duh, whose the enemy? Morans

[teryang]

4. The news was scary now it is absurdly funny

...in a very morbid way.

All the stupid and idiotic statements being made every day by the regime dunces will be recorded and played back over and over again a hundred years from now. That is if they don't destroy the world before they get dumped.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. Is this the "long hard slog" strategy?

How many US soldiers is Rumsfeld willing to get killed to save his sorry ass career?

[Nay]

6. It's deja vu all over again.

For anyone who lived through the era, this is EXACTLY what happened in Vietnam, practically word for word.

Groan.

[NoPasaran]

8. Things are happening so fast

What is really amazing to me is not that the junta seems to be repeating the mistakes that led to Vietnam but rather their unseemly haste in making them.

[BeFree]

9. Exactly

I saw a side by side comparison of the words LBJ used to get us into Vietnam and the words used by herr Shrub. Some of the words may not have been exactly the same, but the tone and sentiment was.

Iraq-a-Nam won't get better until our troops are history. Exactly like Viet Nam.