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>>>During the Falklands War it's held that the Argentines were most scared of the prospect of facing the G's who were called to action there.
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>>The Falklands "war"? Jorge Luis Borges had the perfect observation about that one. He said it was two bald men arguing over a comb.
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>Hmmm, an argument that cost some 250 GB lives and 1,000s of Argentines. I'll wager that the men on The Falklands went through far more privations than any squaddy in the Gulf wars - "yomping" for miles across wind-swept moors, in biting winter temps (The helicopter transport ship, Atlantic Conveyor had been sunk by exorcet). The horrors that the men in HMS Sheffield et al had to go through after exocet attack. Using the mortars on the rocky hillsides meant that there was nowhere to secure their footings, so men volunteered to stand their weight on the tripod feet, knowing that the kick of the launch would break their leg.
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>tcha!

TCHA? Help me out here, bud.

Let's just agree to disagree about the Falklands war. Sure, soldiers on both sides died, but it was about the silliest "war" ever. The British sailed halfway around the world to reclaim a godforsaken pile of rocks, with massively superior firepower, and it was all over quickly. Contrast this with the current U.S. adventure in Iraq, the dumbest military adventure in OUR history. (No, wait, that honor goes to Grenada). We are approaching the third anniversary of this brain-dead, poorly planned exercise with ~2600 Americans dead and countless Iraqis. Our mission, whatever exactly it was, is no closer to being completed and Iraq is teetering on the brink of outright civil war, which is exactly what I predicted three years ago. This has been a gigantic waste of time, money, and lives.

I'll shut up now. It makes me angry, that's all. Such utter stupidity.