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Here's ya a start: why is the Pentagon (including Rumsfeld, et al), the
news media, and the supposedly-caring general populace ignoring those
battlefield officers who are saying things like, "We needed and continue
to need to be here, but we also need the ability to start acting like a
wartime army and not meter maids and crossing guards..." and what would
your opinion be as to why each is ignoring them?

my guess is that the battlefield officers are of as diverse a range of
opinions from branch to branch, unit to unit, as the rest of us. Maybe more
informed about some things, less about others. Why the **** should we be
fighting a war in Iraq, and what on earth does it gain us, long-term?


Secondly, does the Tet
Offensive figure into all of this, and if so, how?

HTH,
R

Tell me we aren't going to get the Walter Cronkite/Tet Offensive reporting
analogies going.....please.
Tom