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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> >
> > VH> And they make sure THOSE guys never rise high enough to make a
> > difference.
> > :-)
>  What ails the French pols?  Are they AFRAID of their
>  own Army?

Napoleon.  Napoleon III.  Charles De Gaulle.  They don't want another one.
> > > >
>  True.  But, for a long time in 1920's and '30's,
>  Churchill might as well have been an opressed
>  minority himself for all the influence he had.

But he was NOT an oppressed minority -- he was a politician, working in a
political system.  His success or failure was his own responsibility.

No one was passing laws preventing his successors from voting, outlawing
his books, and so on.
> >
> > VH> Alive or dead, he's running out of places to hide.
> >
>  And, now that Tikrit has fallen, Saddam has no practical
>  hiding places left in Iraq.  Either he's dead or he has
>  managed to escape    I've seen rumors about Saddam
>  escaping to Syria or hiding in the Russian embassy.

And we ought not to let anyone who hides him get away with it.  I'm not
advocating an attack on Syria, but if they're shielding him, a little raid
and maybe a few Tomahawks wouldn't hurt.
>
> > VH> I'm only sorry Hillary! didn't go over to act as a human shield. :-)
> > > >
>
>  Good idea!  But don't forget Billy! 

She would hold him over her head to absorb the first impact.
> >
> > VH> Modernize it how?  Where will they get the technology?
> > >
>  Not the US, France, Britain, or Germany?  Esp. not
>  from copying us?  Iran lacks the financial, commercial,
>  indutrial means ,etc, needed for modernizing the
>  armed forces?

Yes -- in fact, the F14s we sold her back in the good old days are sitting
on the tarmac for lack of spare parts.  If they can't produce spare parts,
how can they produce complete aircraft?
>
>  All the same, I think any war with Iran will be a lot
>  harder than in Iraq.

That depends.  The Iranians certainly fought the Iraqis harder.  But there
is some indication they might not fight us -- they might fall apart.

If they DO fight, a pitched battle would simply allow us to kill them in
wholesale lots.
>
>  > SMB> Seems to me Gen. Franks is trying a gradual, piecemeal
> > >  occupation of Baghdad.
> >
> > VH> Hmmmm . . . sounds like he graduated from the same school I did. :-)
>
>  I thought he had been handling the campaign
>  basically the way you desired! 
>
>  You probably still know some of the officers now
>  serving in Iraq.  At least the older ones.

The campaign could have been written by the faculty of the Command and
General Staff College.
> > >
>  I.e., better "integrated"?

Yep -- they answer to the man on the ground, not someone up in the air.


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