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Originally posted by Coramoor
I guess we will have to agree to disagree b/c I think that's bs.
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It's always nice to be called a bullshitter by someone with no personal, first hand knowledge of a situation. So, OK, let's disagree.
But do me a favor.
Print this thread -- or commit it's salient points to memory -- then in about twenty years, when a definitive history of this conflict and it's coverage is written, go back and see where the BS really starts.
Like the Vietnam Five O'Clock Follies, I'm pretty sure you're going to find out that the PIO's are the biggest source of mis-information. Or at least, only telling part of the story.
As for your returning brothers, thank goodness that they're back safe, but unless they are at least field grade officers on a command staff, they probably know as little or less about the "Big Picture" than the reporters. I mean absolutely no disrespect for them -- but that's the way the Armed Forces operate. The grunts and company grade guys are just told to do it -- not why.
It ain't right, but it's the way things have been for years.
The truth is, that I would love to be wrong. But if history is any judge, I won't be.
Edited to fix gramatical error.