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   The US Military's Over-Aggressive tactics have  come under fire for   
   not winning the hearts and minds of the occupied people of Iraq .   
      
   Andrew Garfield, a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research   
   Institute in Philadelphia and former British Intelligence Officer   
   travelled throughout Iraq to gather the views of more than 100 British   
   officers and other officials about American tactics in the military.   
      
   The perception was that the US military continues to use excessive   
   force in Iraq and because of it is creating new enemies and not   
   friends.   
      
   Garfield recently published a paper called :   British Perspectives on   
   the US Effort to Stabilise and Reconstruct Iraq. If anyone can find it   
   please post it.  I think the Bushies have eaten it up.  All I could   
   find was this article:   
      
      
   http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2372122,00.html   
      
   Excerpt from the above article:   
      
   " Many British interviewees complained that the vast majority of the   
   American military personnel . . . viewed their job as to kill the   
   enemies of the United States. They believed peacekeeping was for   
   wimps, prided themselves on their aggression and openly expressed the   
   desire . . . to destroy the enemy."   
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   The Bush Military tactics are the same in Afghanistan as in Iraq.   
   It's no wonder the NATO countries are holding back at fighting with   
   Americans, or where Americans have left off.   
      
   They're afraid they'll be tarred with the same brush.   
      
   Penny   
      
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