Military Split On How to Use Special Forces In Terror War

pinto

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Mon Jan-05-04 02:06 PM
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Military Split On How to Use Special Forces In Terror War

By Gregory L. Vistica
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 5, 2004; Page A01

With Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pressuring the Pentagon to take a more aggressive role in tracking down terrorists, military and intelligence officials are engaged in a fierce debate over when and how elite military units should be deployed for maximum effectiveness.

Under Rumsfeld's direction, secret commando units known as hunter-killer teams have been ordered to "kick down the doors," as the generals put it, all over the world in search of al Qaeda members and their sympathizers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54655-2004Jan4.html

Rumsfeld, Pentagon, think tanks; ongoing debate about use of spec ops

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Mon Jan-05-04 02:38 PM
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1. Isn't it amazing how our Constitutional Rights are good for us but not

for anyone else in the world. "They hate us for our freedoms" but we show by our actions ("kick the doors down") that we don't like those freedoms for anyone if we want to harass them. Even in America they want to limit our freedoms.
Who is it that really "Hates us for our Freedoms?" It would appear that those hating the most are Republicans. Not a thinking mind among them. "Fundamentalism kills a thinking mind"

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