The goal has basically been whatever the greatest number of people would buy into. As more people are beginning to think for themselves, that strategy seems to be falling apart more & more by the day.

From studying 1930's German propaganda techniques back in high school (repetition), after I heard the term "WMD" for about the 1000th time, you almost had to know that something was smelly in Denmark. But you can always fool some of the people all of the time.

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"Tweeter was a Boyscout before she went to Vietnam and found out the hard way... nobody gives a d@mn."

Again, what is OUR GOAL? If the IRAQI Forces refuse to fight, what are we to do?

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9409919.htm

We are up the creek and WE AIN'T GOT NO PADDLE!!

It is a highly unpatriotic act to shoot at your own countrymen because the puppet regime put in place by a hostile invasion force tell you to do so. No wonder that they refuse, they would probably much more like to shoot at the enemy then their own people, if they had the means to do so.

In an alternative universe, the Soviet Union has survived and has invaded the United States of America. The federal government has been replaced by people handpicked by the Soviets, including a President. This is to to show the world that the United States of America indeed has regained their sovereignty since invasion. There is no longer an occupation going on, the Soviet troops, that has even increased in numbers since the occupation phase, are only there to help. The Soviet forces however has problem with some Americans that just refuse to accept the new order and has started to shoot at the Soviet troops in skirmish sized ambushes. The losses sustained in these attacks are minute but has a negative inpact on Soviet morale. To remedy this problem something must be done, the American National Guard are rebuilt, besides an sovereign nation must have their own military. The National Guard troops are then ordered to attack troublesome insurgents in order to spare precious Soviet lives. Some of the soldiers in the National Guard desert however since they claim that they don't want to shoot at their own people. The people of the mighty Soviet empire are awed at these obvious displays of cowardice...

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche