"go to war with the army you have, not the one you want"

[fryguy]

and courtmartial those who try to change that f**ked-up calculous:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_re_us/soldiers_scrounging

COLUMBUS, Ohio - At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own unit's mission to Iraq.

The soldiers say they needed the vehicles, and parts stripped from one, to deliver fuel to Iraq, but their former battalion commander said Sunday the troops should at least have returned the vehicles to their original units.


Members of the 656th Transportation Company based in Springfield, west of Columbus, said they needed the equipment to deliver fuel that was needed by U.S. forces in Iraq for everything from helicopters to tanks.

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:wtf:

[whistle]

1. That begs the question, why go to war in the first place. . .

. . . especially with a country that did not attcak us nor had anything to do with the attackers.

[neverforget]

2. Because we can?

:shrug: Elective war for idealogical purposes :puke: