04-18-2003, 03:36 PM
Wow -- invasion of a country, deaths of x number of civilian (depending on who's doing the counting), expenditure of billions, all so our troops can get a little practice time at the guns??
That sounds (1) not particularly plausible to me, and (2) if true, evidence of a particularly evil bent by leadership. Remember the Japanese troops who "practiced" shooting on POWs? Such behavior is not generally looked upon favorably.
(Especially if other venues for practice are available -- and they are, i.e. war games, bomb an island, etc).
That sounds (1) not particularly plausible to me, and (2) if true, evidence of a particularly evil bent by leadership. Remember the Japanese troops who "practiced" shooting on POWs? Such behavior is not generally looked upon favorably.
(Especially if other venues for practice are available -- and they are, i.e. war games, bomb an island, etc).