Message posted by Sturmwehr on March 16, 2001 at 16:32:14 PST:
Oh yes, the U.S. is just perfect. They do not make any mistakes at all. On the contrary. Stupid things the military has done in the last century: #1: Issuing that peice of shit excuse called the ChauChat in WWI. That got more Americans killed than Germans. #2: Department of Defense budget to the NSA: about $15 billion, give or take a few. #3: Issuing an untested weapon (the Armalite -this was before Colt bought the licence- M16/AR-15) in Vietname and not using smokeless powered. THEN, telling the G.I. that they need not clean them. Do you know how many DEAD U.S. soldier where found with their weapons disemabled and with their cleaning rods out? About 2/3 of all casulaties. ANOTHER great peice of work by the military. #4: Entering the Vietname war. #5: Not issuing ANY winter coats to our troops in Korea. More died from the cold than the enemy's rounds. Does this sound intelligent? Reminds me of Napoleon... another moron. #6: Sending supply ships to Europe WITHOUT Destroyer/Destroy Escort ships to escort them. We lost MILLIONS of dollars in lost equipment to the German U-Boats... another great peice of stupidity from the U.S. military. #7: Knowing Pearl Harbor was a PRIME target of the Japanese and not beefing up security. 3 weeks before the attack commensed a Japanese spy was arrest, we had with him survalliance photos of the harbor. Now that would tell me of a preceding attack, another thing the military had staring in their face and MISSED. #8: May I remind you of the recent collision of the U.S.S. Greenville and that Japanese fishing boat? That NEVER should have happened. Yet the Navy said "screw it" to STANDARD safety procautions to make it back to the harbor on time. Brillant. Nah. The military can't be ignorant.
It is arguably known as the worst weapon ever made, and yet the military TOOK IT IN THEIR INVENTORY. Genius ain't it?
What the NSA does: gathers 5 times the intelligence of the CIA
What the NSA MISSED (i.e. didn't know): That the Palestians tested a nuclear weapon. All that money put into survillance, yet the military DIDNT know until it was on Headline News. Marvlous work.
In Reply to: Not So Secret, but Secrets can kill -- IGNORANT? posted by Spooky_Dogg on March 15, 2001 at 21:16:41 PST:
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