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What are we fighting for?

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If this is it:

US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.

then the rebuilding effort is truly broken and misnamed.
This terrorism is not something that any legitimate government supports.
For more detail and links see Electrolite and Whiskey Bar. Be sure to read the comment threads.
Via Mark Kleiman.

Campaign Tactics

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I’m not sure this is any worse then sending that fax via the ACLU or other group trying to make it easy for people to express their support for some issue:

A series of letters to hometown newspapers, purportedly written by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, contain identical language, according to the Gannett News Service. The letters praise the U.S. effort to rebuild the war-torn Mideast nation.

Except that, though some soldiers agreed with the letters, they did not know they were being sent on their behalf and in other cases letters appear to be completely made up.