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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
That's my point though, 40 odd years on your still pissed some dumb squaddie from Huddersfield or the like did what squaddies always do, figured all 'paddies' (no offence intended) were the same and shot some poor ####### who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, you think it would be any different in Tikrit?
It will take less than a day for a mistake to be made, after all at least in Derry they weren't worried about suicide vests, in Iraq the troops will rightfully be even jumpier and more trigger happy.
There's no such thing as peacekeeping in Iraq, if we go back in the various factions, Shia, Sunni, tribal will eventually (ie in about a week or two) hate us as occupiers
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Yeah, I can't disagree with that.
Which is why I always
when I heard the phrase, hearts and minds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_...nds_%28Iraq%29
Was that serious or a cover up for something else? Were they really that delusional?