Get ready: Bush is
about to make another big mistake
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by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
leonjfisher@webtv.net
Sept. 3, 2007
If the Bush cabal believes it can win a war with Iran exclusively from
the air without resort to a ground invasion, they are deluding
themselves. Despite the awesome destructive capabilities of modern air
power, it cannot by
itself bring about victory over an enemy which is
determined to fight on at all costs.
If during World War II the
Allies had waited for the strategic bombing campaign to bring the Germans to
surrender without a ground invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, they would
still be waiting. The bombing campaign in Vietnam, Rolling Thunder,
despite dropping more munitions than all of WWII, failed to bring the
enemy to its knees. The air offensive against Iraq in Gulf War I did not
bring the Iraqis to throw in the towel until coalition land forces
finally took to the offensive and began driving to the Euphrates.
It
also must be pointed out that Coalition air power was unable to
interdict the Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and Israel. A
similar situation was encountered late in WWII, when Allied air power
found itself unable to locate the mobile V-2 launchers which were
bombarding London and Antwerp, and it was only after ground forces overran the areas from which the launchers were operating that the rocket
attacks finally ended.
The rain of bombs which fell on the Taliban in
Afghanistan, and the
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Do Bush and
his inner circle of Neo Con lunatics truly believe that an encore of
"Shock and Awe" is going to cow a nation which sacrificed a million men to
repel an Iraqi invasion during the 1980s?
Does the Bush cabal think
there will be no retaliation against our forces in Iraq and our fleet in
the Persian Gulf, against Israel, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia?
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"Shock and Awe" campaign at the beginning of
Gulf War II again by itself could not guarantee victory, with
ground forces once again having to take and hold ground.
Does the Bush
Regime think they can succeed when every air offensive in the past that was not
supported by a ground invasion, or the threat of a ground invasion (Kosovo/ Serbia) has failed to bring surrender? Do Bush and
his inner circle of Neo Con lunatics truly believe that an encore of
"Shock and Awe" is going to cow a nation which sacrificed a million men to
repel an Iraqi invasion during the 1980s? Does the Bush cabal think
there will be no retaliation against our forces in Iraq and our fleet in
the Persian Gulf, against Israel, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia?
Or perhaps
the warmongers in Washington are planning on using the unspeakable to
achieve their diabolical ends, the ultimate war crime, the use of
thermonuclear weapons on a population of over a hundred million people.
I leave you with this thought: How are we to live with the deaths of
tens of millions of souls on our hands, if indeed this comes to pass?
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