Bringing the Spirit of a Vietnam Vet up to Speed on Iraq

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Then we had this red, yellow , orange alert crap about being under attack. Dr. Rice started talking about "the mushroom cloud," and how we had to take out Saddam in Iraq. Yep, ... our country fell for it, and Post Traumatic Stress Dissorder made our Congress so scared that they gave our "cowboy president" a "get-out-of-jail free" pass to invade Iraq, when Iraq had nothing to do with the hijacked planes. You see, our president wanted to get even with Saddam for trying to blow up Bush's family, and at the same time get his hands grubby in the Iraq oil. It's too embarrassing to even talk about the WMD phobia, he guaranteed.

So, we have 150,000 soldiers with inferior vehicles in a country our soldiers know little about. President Bush is no Bud Wilkinson, by a "long-neck." Heck, we don't have enough translators for one Iraqi town, much less the country. The government planners for the war were shooting from their hips. They had a plan to take Baghdad, and they had absolutely no, and I mean this Robert, no plan on what they would do when they captured Baghdad. Once we took Baghdad, our troops were ordered to not shoot looters or enforce laws, and, after that, it went down hill fast. We didn't have an exit strategy. Can you believe that? No exit strategy! Bud Wilkinson would have been a genius compared to our White House fruit basket we have in their now.

I know what you would say, Robert. You would say, it is time to kick butt and impeach, and believe me, we've done the first part, and we are planning on doing the second part. It will mean that we will have our first woman president; if we had had a woman president in the first place, we wouldn't have invaded a country for change of regime, unprepared. It has cost us 3,000 of our finest right now and 40K wounded. And theirs? We can throw out from 50,000 to 600,000 and still win a turkey.

It's not looking good, Robert, because our "coaches" didn't even watch the films. No video game evaluation or preparation. They just went in. You would have been a better president than the fumbling bimbo we have in there now. Why, ol' Bud wouldn't have let them suit-up in a game because every time they've had their hands on the ball, they fumbled. Every time!

I gotta' tell you, Bob, that Vietnam was a quagmire and so is Iraq. Remember those history classes under Dr. David Levy? Yep, ... he was right; history does repeat itself. Sooner than we thought

I miss you, buddy.

"Bob was selected as an Oklahoma Sooner All-American Tackle in 1967. As an eighth-round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills in 1968, he started eight games at Guard and was voted the team's top rookie in 1968.

He began fulfilling his ROTC obligation with the US Army following the '68 season and started his tour of duty in Vietnam in November of 1969, where he served with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 11th Artillery, 101st Airborne Division.

His MOS was 1193 - Field Artillery Unit Commander. LT Kalsu was killed by mortar fire on July 21, 1970 at Firebase Ripcord near the Ashau Valley."

http://www.landscaper.net/kalsu.htm

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