From: "John Beamish" 

"Obviously we could easily have just used B52's ..."

More obviously:  you could have stayed home.

"Geo."  wrote in message news:409e847d{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Phil Payne"  wrote in message
> news:409E10F4.60B7C162{at}isham-research.com...
>
> > > > Yes the tone is set from the top, and as I remember Bush made it
quite
> clear
> > > > that we were not at war with the Iraqi people.
>
> > > Nope but you were going to occupy & police etc the Iraqi people.
>
> > What was "shock and awe" all about, then?
>
> Obviously we could easily have just used B52's to bomb baghdad and turned
> most of downtown into rubble, that isn't what we did, instead we used very
> expensive bombs that are much more likely to hit only the military targets
> and not just kill everyone in the areas around those targets. Now I'm not
> saying everything went perfectly but surely the intent was clear?
>
> That intent came from Bush, he made it clear with words before we started,
> he made it clear in our actions. The army guys doing all the nasty stuff
in
> these prisons weren't listening to Bush, from what I've read they were
> listening to contracters and cia ops. That was their mistake.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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