BTW, "cracked it", or "cracked the shits" means they've gotten really annoyed.


Vets of Australia and Britain have said since WW2 and possibly before what I said about the US hosing down anything that moves. "All the gear no idea" is what they say. I've also heard many Aussie vets say the US are always last in, first out in sticky situations. Just what's been said many times. I've never faught with them.

I've heard interviews from US soldiers themselves who said for the first month they shot anything that moved. Regardless of what it was.

Which really ticked off the British. Its very hard to win hearts and minds when the hearts and minds are splattered all over the joint.


And don't forget a lot of the US forces in Iraq are weekend warriors. It always amazes me what they let reservists do in the US forces.

You've got artillery do policing and raids etc. You've got fat bubba the crop-duster pilot flying F-16 once a month as is my understanding. Some of the US pilots I've seen would get kicked out of most armed forces for being too fat.

I know they're over-stretched, and its really starting to show [another huge problem facing America], but it just amazes me the US military sometimes.

Shooting down civilian commercial aircraft for instance. Shooting down allied planes. Shooting down their own planes.


I know I shouldn't laugh, but some of it is good for a chuckle. I have a very black sense of humour.


O, and Australia is I can't remember the weasel word for it, synchronising or something, its forces with American forces. The joint strike fighter [looking more and more like a dud, but we're well and truly signed up], heavy tanks we don't need for anything but being with the US, planes to transport the tanks across the world.

I'll never forget the 2 rust buckets the US sold to us for like $800 million I think it was. Wouldn't let us inspect them beforehand. I wonder why.


So yes, we love getting redundant, ageing and irrelevant heaps of crap from the US all the time, being as we're such a respected ally and all.


So I would say expect to see the US and Australia going to some new theatre of war sometime in the next 5 years. I mean Iraq and Afghanistan are going so well and all, I'm sure there's somewhere else we can go.

There's probably 30+ countries we can find an excuse to invade. Roll on, roll on.



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Roam around the world,
Roam if you want to,
Without anything but the love we feel.

Fly the great big sky,
See the great big sea,
Kick through continents,
Bustin' boundaries.