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July 04, 2003

The Fruits of Iraq Justification

I objected strongly when many who had supported the war on Iraq began claiming the war was justified regardless of the presence of WMDs because we had removed Hussein from power and therefore made the lives of ordinary Iraqis better. We didn't invade Iraq to improve the lives of Iraqis, we did so to remove a perceived threat to the United States. Now we see the fruits of those attempts to distract attention from the missing WMDs: a more and more likely scenario of American troops in Liberia. After all, if Iraq was justified (after the fact) by the humanitarian aspects, why not Liberia?

A former commander of mine once was fond of pointing out 'words have meaning.' Unfortunately, it appears that many prowar commentators may learn this too late, as their unnecessary attempts to justify the war in the wake of the missing WMDs may bring consequences that could have been easily predicted.

Posted at July 4, 2003 04:40 AM

Andrew Olmsted

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5 July 2003
I served with the 3d ACR in Baumholder, Germany from November 1962 to
December 1965. I am the Americanism Chairman for POst 587 here in
Toledo and would like to have whatever info you could send me about
the 3d ACR to use with my education programs about units members of
our Post have been in.

Do you have any info you could send me about the BRAVE RIFLES from
1966 to present.

I am also the President of our Seniors Club at the Post. I am the
only member of our 700+ Post that is known to have served with the 3d
ACR. Others have served with the 2d and 7th.

Thanking you in advance for whatever info you can send me.

Sincerely,

Former Brave Rifle
John Pietras
6055 Everwood Rd.
Toledo, OHio 43613-1233
jpietra@buckeye-express.com
419-475-7933

Posted by: John Pietras at July 6, 2003 10:34 AM

SIR...
I STUMBLED UPON YOUR SITE MENTION OF 3D ACR..WELL SIR, I WAS DELIGHTED WHEN I DID SO. AS A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE 3D ACR ASSOC. AND A PROUD TROOPER OF THE "BRAVE RIFLES" REGIMENT, I WAS EQUALLY DELIGHTED TO HAVE CHARGED FORWARD INTO THE DESERTS OF IRAQ DURING OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM,AND ONTO THE SYRIAN BORDER. ALTHOUGH I AM CURRENTLY SERVING THE PROUD 3D INFANTRY DIVISION OUT OF FT STEWART, GA, I AM NO LESS AND NEVERTHELESS, A "BRAVE RIFLES TROOPER" FOREVER. I'D BE HAPPY TO HELP OUT AS BEST AS I CAN. AS I AM A VFW MEMBER AND NOT CERTAIN OF WHAT TYPE OF INFO YOU COULD BENEFIT FROM, I'LL GLADLY DO MY BEST TO HELP YOU OUT..
BRAVE RIFLES!
SSG C.

Posted by: LOU at March 5, 2004 05:48 PM