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Old 08-24-2015, 02:51 PM   #5 (permalink)
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1) Who exactly is the "we" here? Last I checked, the Syrians &c were fignting all on their own.

2) If you bother to look, I think you'll find that most armies in the region wear tan/brown, to match with the sand. That is, when they're official armies with uniforms, and not just a bunch of jihadists.
"We" being Murricans. As the then Commander-In-Chief put it:

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Our mission in Iraq and Afghanistan is clear to our service members -- and clear to our enemies. Our men and women are fighting to secure the freedom of more than 50 million people who recently lived under two of the cruelest dictatorships on earth. Our men and women are fighting to help democracy and peace and justice rise in a troubled and violent region.
-George W. Bush, November 11, 2003
Now people around the world have to worry that we'll export clean air.

And as long as we're nit-picking, I was packing my bags less than three weeks after Bush's speech. I had to get my butt over there to help ISIS get started. With a brown uniform and green equipment.
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