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Nov 16, 2007

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Barking from the Lab:

Albert Einstein: ?Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.?

Einstein?s quote is applicable to the fire power heavy and tactically unsound way the United States wages war.

We haven?t won a war since World War Two and the crow eating fact is that our contribution to victory against Nazi Germany was our ability to out produce the ?Third Reich?. Eighty percent of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS were destroyed on the Russian front. The depreciated German forces we faced in Western Europe out-soldiered us, man for man. During the early phase of the Battle of the Bulge, Patton said ?We can still loose this war. The Kraut is hungry and tired, yet he still out-soldiers us.?

The U.S. puts great stock in high technology weapons and firepower. We believe that we can bomb and blast our way to victory, that our opponents will stand still and allow themselves to be obliterated by air strikes and artillery. History has shown us they will do the opposite, they will disperse, dig into mother earth and negate our firepower advantage.

Back to Einstein?s quote, in Korea, we were outfought by Chinese Communist Forces equipped with canvas web gear, burp guns, and man ported supplies. The CCF were true light infantry, unlike our overloaded infantry, they carried only essential fighting gear and had no weapons heavier than mortars. Again, the U.S. Forces had armor, artillery and mortars ranging from 8 in Howitzers to 60mm mortars, airpower, and in some cases, Naval gunfire, yet we were still defeated by the low tech Reds!

In Vietnam, our overloaded infantry had an even more advanced firepower edge over the lightly equipped Bo Doi of North Vietnam. We dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than on Nazi Germany and the outcome was still the same, we lost. Does anyone see a pattern emerging in how we wage, or should I say LOOSE wars?? Could the thousands of civilians killed by our excessive firepower we used have motivated the Bo Doi to win? Those civilians were his family, the land we scarred was his home ground. A ?Screaming Eagle? Vietnam vet friend of mine said this about our excessive use of fire power ?We realy f---ed up Vietnam.?

And fast forward to the present, in this ?Global War on Terror or GWOT?. I digress for a moment; terror is a means, not an actual enemy, right? So much for the Sun Tzu axiom of ?Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster? It seems that we can?t even identify our actual enemy, that might make some Saudi royal family members and oil companies nervous. Can?t have that, can we?

Anyways in the ?GWOT?, we?re ?doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.? Our foes are lightly equipped Chinese vest pouch wearing, AK-47 totting, sandal clad guerillas who have nothing but time to ?wage the war of 1,000 cuts? against us. The overloaded grunts of Korea and Vietnam toted 98+ pounds of heavy gear, the grunts of today?s war tote 98+ pounds of lightweight gear. Somehow I get the impression that all our precision wiz bang weaponry will contribute little towards victory. Perhaps it?s time to re-evaluate how we fight our wars?

The following opinion was HEAVILY influenced by the works of H. John Poole, Col. David Hackworth, and boots on the ground time in the ?GWOT?.

LAB
November 28, 2007

nuclear moron

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He can't even say it right.

He's probably going to start a nuclear war, and he can't even pronounce "nuclear" correctly.

The correct pronunciation: "noo-KLEE-er."

Instead, the dumb fuck says: "nuke-YA-ler."

He keeps saying nuke-ya-ler, nuke-ya-ler, nuke-ya-ler. Gotta stop Saddam from developing nuke-ya-ler weapons. Gotta prevent North Korea from building its first nuke-ya-ler bomb.

Common sense would seem to dictate that a person shouldn't have the power to start a nuclear war if they can't even PRONOUNCE THE FUCKING WORD "NUCLEAR." Is that so crazy?

OK, here's a rule: If you're going to pretend to be an EXPERT on something, you'd do well to at least master the BASIC TERMINOLOGY.

Would you buy a pair of sneakers from someone who called them "sneak-ya-lers?"

Would you buy a hamburger from someone who called it a "ham-burg-ya-ler?"

Would you give an Academy Award for Best Performance by an "Act-ya-ler?"

According to an online dictionary, "nuke-ya-ler" is one of our language's 100 most frequently mispronounced words, alongside eternal annoyances such as "expresso," "volumptuous," and "supposably." Two of my all-time-most-hated phonetic blunders, "intrical" (integral) and "westrin" (western) didn't make the list, but nuke-ya-ler did, and nothing grates on my nerves worse than nuke-ya-ler.

But in this case, it's much more than a simple mispronunciation. It speaks of a horrifying ignorance previously unimagined. George W. Bush, the man whose uncontrolled-but-unwarranted ego may bring about the end of the world, will do this ol' world a tremendous disservice by MISPRONOUNCING its demise.

I mean, it's not like it's a foreign word. It's not like nuclear policy isn't part of his job. He has his hand on the button, and he can't say "nuclear" properly.

It scares the shit out of me. Really-the shit's just hanging out of my ass and trailing all over the floor.

This is much scarier than when Dan Quayle, handpicked by G.W. Bush's daddy to be Vice President, couldn't spell "potato."

And just like bumbling retardo Quayle, our big-eared Commander in Chief didn't get as far as he did in life through merit. He got there through inheritance and connections and a terrifyingly soulless dissociation from the grave matters he's entrusted to handle.

If it was really a free market, and if America really rewarded merit instead of inherited wealth, a screaming mediocrity such as G.W. Bush would be working in a rock quarry somewhere. He's really that dumb.

Motherfucker didn't even win the election. Greasy plastic lizard Al Gore snagged more votes than Bush...Al Gore, yet another millionaire. Name one major presidential candidate EVER who wasn't one.

Somewhere in Cleveland, there's a young black kid who didn't vote for Bush and who will never be a millionaire and who will go DIE in the Middle East to make the world safe for millionaires such as Bush.

Maybe that silver spoon in G.W.'s mouth is making him mispronounce things.

He'd say that since I'm so critical of him, I'm supporting terrorism by default. WRONG AGAIN, Doodles Weaver. Despite Osama bin Laden's scraggly guerrilla chic, he's just another child of insane wealth like you. I'm down on ALL power-hungry rich kids.

But especially DUMB ones.

All that George Jr.'s presidency has proven thus far is that you can be dumb as a tree stump and do mountains of cocaine, and you can STILL become president if you're rich as fuck and willing to tell lies while smiling.

I'm sure he's a nice guy once you get to know him. I just think the little spoiled bitch should fight his own fights.

If you want to start a war, Rich Boy, then get right up there on the front lines. Saddle up to one of those nuke-ya-ler bombs and ride it yourself, tuff guy.

For all the shit he talks about "national security," he ain't protecting anyone but himself. He's gambling with every life but his own. Punk pussy got a deferment FROM Vietnam while my brother got malaria IN Vietnam. And now the Silver Spoon Cowboy wants to send more young Americans-almost all of them poor or working-class-to go DIE DIE DIE because his feelings were hurt that the hairy Ay-rabs don't like his daddy much.

He felt his dad was unfairly dissed by Saddam, and so he's willing, brave man that he is, to waste THOUSANDS of American lives--as long as it isn't his own life--to get revenge.

You remember his daddy. He's the one who pronounced it "Sodom" Hussein.

LAB