03-29-2008, 02:55 PM
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Location: Savannah, Georgia
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Originally Posted by tw
Troops routinely describe bullets being deflected by their armor. Bullets that were almost always fatal in Nam.
Meanwhile, friends served on the Cambodian border. Lieutenant confiscated their M-16s. They didn't need them. One used his M-16 to go home.
The other irony is booby traps. American soldiers in Nam were mostly wounded or killed by bobby traps. In Iraq, roadside bombs. Most caught in a roadside bomb survive with at worst minor injuries. Less death.
American facilities in Nam often came under attack until Saigon was eventually made stable. Ironically, the safest place in Iraq - the Green Zone - again came under sustained shelling again this week. You don't go outside even in the Green Zone without protective clothing.
We measured victory in Nam by body counts and fatalities. Using those numbers, we were clearly winning the war. Using Iraq fatalities proves same?
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More total BS...
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