War Stories

We might say at this point in time that the military started into the Iraq War hoping to avoid fighting a counterinsurgency war at all. Now that we're well into the fifth year of that war, and even further into the (now-)NATO intervention in Afghanistan, the generals have relearned the lessons of the Vietnam War counterinsurgency.

American intelligence analysts allegedly saw aerial photos of the German-run concentation camps during World War II and had some idea what they were. But the public did not see these images at the time. Just as radio, television, and the Internet have tremendous affects on the public’s access to information, so does aerial imagery.

I began my trip to the Center with an exploration of L Ron Hubbard’s life – my tour guide, June, went through childhood to death, telling me of all the wonderful things that L Ron Hubbard did in his life (many of which are false; for example, the display said Hubbard was a heavily decorated WWII soldier, earning 21 medals of honor. Unfortunately, his US Navy record indicates he was awarded just four routine medals - the American Defense Service Medal, awarded to everyone serving at the time of Pearl Harbor, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War Two Victory Medal, this last received by everyone serving on V-J Day).

An Italian judge did the right thing and put the Nazi back under house arrest. Pity the Italian authorities didn’t throw the bastard in jail, where he belongs.

The more times change, the more they remain the same. Check out this excerpt from a 1784 letter from Richard Henry Lee, Revolutionary war hero, to James Madison, who was at the time a Delegate in our General Assembly:

Heritage Auctions will be holding a major auction of Civil War Memorabilia next week on Sunday, June 24, 2007, and Monday, June 25, 2007.

If Iran gets successfully blamed for American failure in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the temporary ego boost they feel will be quickly tempered by American bombs raining down on every nuclear facility the DoD the CIA can find. Furthermore, if Iran does successfully support insurgents in both wars just enough to force an American withdrawal from Iraq and a refocus on Afghanistan, they’re in trouble, as the tables will suddenly turn as Iran must try as hard as it can to keep Iraq from spilling over while not being able to fight a pissed off and determined U.S. by proxy to the east.

By showing footage of side-by-side presidential justifications for various American wars since WW II -- especially Vietnam and Iraq -- the patterns of deception followed by intimidation become clear.

In 1968 George Romney, Mitt’s father, was a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination and discovered very late in the game that supporting the Vietnam War was a loser of an issue so he changed his mind, claiming that he had been “brainwashed” by the military (Gene McCarthy commented that a “light rinse would of sufficed”).

But first we need to change our name to Greenwich. As you know, Greensboro is named for Nathanael Greene, Revolutionary War hero and George Washington's most gifted and dependable general. Did you also know that between 1808 and 1895 that Greensboro was called Greensborough? Well, it was. It's obvious, then, that the important part of "Greensboro" is the "Green" part, and that we can continue to hohttp://blogcarnival.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-new.cgi?__mode=list_entries&blog_id=45&is_power_edit=2&filter=status&filter_val=1 Entries | War Stories | Movable Type Publishing Platformnor the great general by substituting "wich" for "sboro."