This is the question I ask myself when people insist that we need to "support the mission" in Iraq as a condition of being a loyal citizen. I dispute that. Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq is on a par with Napoleon's catastrophic invasion of Russia in 1812. To deception in starting the war, Napoleon added strategic short-sightedness and tactical incompetence. Were the French people required by the obligations of citizenship to "support the mission" in Russia in order to demonstrate that they supported the French troops?
Think about it - and let the flames begin!!
2007-09-05 15:35:16 · 4 answers · asked by Yupon Bachi-Bazouk 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Bush tells us to support the troops and the troops tell us to support the President...tragic loop. Napoleon lost in 1812 for the same reason Hitler lost at Stalingrad...weather and "hutsba".
Bush is going to lose in Irac because he's a bonehead.
2007-09-05 15:55:11 · answer #1 · answered by charlie the 2na 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did think about it. Most of the troops in Napoleon's Grand Army at that time weren't even Frenchmen. That's not the case with our forces in Iraq. Napoleon was a dictator. The offensive military operations in Iraq were authorized in Public Law #107-243 by a freely elected Congress of the United States and signed into law by a freely elected President. Napoleon's Grand Army was stopped at the Battle of Borodino by the Russian Army. The casualty rate in the Grand Army was high, exceeding the fifty percent mark, and was only exceeded by Russian casualties. But, there were even higher casualties in the Grand Army's final retreat out of Russia in the dead of winter. Our casualties in Iraq are less than 2% of those who have been engaged in that theater of operations.
Facts are stubborn things-Think about it!
2007-09-05 16:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the fact the Russians have been some distance fewer in quantity than Napoleon's Grand Armee, they persevered to retreat extra and extra into Russia forcing Napoleon to stay with them, certainly Napoleon replaced into no longer defeated by the Czar's military yet particularly by mom Russia
2016-10-04 01:45:26 · answer #3 · answered by threat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they did and for us we had done awesome in iraq unlike napoleon in russia but after we took them out then what ever tribe came out on top could have it thats how they live alot like africa
2007-09-12 22:41:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋