A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...Ba'ath Party Faces

Billie, JohnHuang2, daisyscarlett/John Huang2's "My Two Cents"

[daisyscarlett]

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete
MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet
MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga
BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette
MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid
BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP
MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian
BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

We now have eleven groups of veterans/active military; we will post each group of three or four twice a week, with thumbnail/links of the remaining seven or eight groups on each thread. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the group full-size.

         

GROUP 5A: TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68. MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797. BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack.

GROUP 6A: TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett. MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick, Leroy S Mort, Mark17. BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.

GROUP 7A: TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam, dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony.BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang.

GROUP 8A: TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx. MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law. BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

      

GROUP 9A: TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog. MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son. BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.

GROUP 10A: TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon. BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.

GROUP 11A: TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son. BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset); WVNan's husband; ladtx' Aunt Eva.

                     

The grim, sullen look on Ba'ath Party faces

by JohnHuang2

For the Left, news these days could hardly be bleaker.

Despite stiff resistance to coalition forces by Fedayeen Saddamites and other die-hards at the New York Times, Ba'ath Party Headquarters West, lopsided majorities of Americans thus far see the war as a smashing success (better than 80% in most polls). As Saddam's grip on power crumbles in Baghdad, full-scale, bloody urban warfare has erupted among Ba'ath Party loyalists in the Democrat Party, who feared the worst, and are getting it in spades.

Presidential hopeless Howard Dean, head of a cadre of Saddam enforcers, accuses fellow hopeless John F. Kerry of betrayal for voting to authorize military action to topple Saddam. Kerry has struggled for weeks to defend that vote, claiming he had no idea his vote to authorize military action was a vote to authorize military action. Last week, as U.S. troops crossed Baghdad's 'Red-Line', seizing a key Bridge on the river Euphrates, the dreaded WMD trip-wire, an angry Kerry, on cue, unleashed some WMD of his own, telling a crowd of froth-at-the-mouth Fedayeenies in New Hampshire that it was time for "regime change in the United States." The remark, a sop to Democrat primary voters seething over U.S. battlefield success, backfired. Before discharging the deadly stuff, Kerry soon discovered, it's wise to first check which way the wind is blowing. Kerry denied comparing Bush to Saddam Hussein after comparing Bush to Saddam Hussein.

Meanwhile, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, head of Saddam's ideological Command Council in the House, remains defiant as ever, despite tumbling support for Saddam in her district. Indeed, a new Field poll shows "most people in San Francisco, home to the nation's strongest" anti-U.S. protests, now "back the war against Iraq," Reuters reports. Pelosi defends her vote to let the Butcher keep butchering people of conscience as "a vote of conscience."

On the war front, for the Left it's been one crushing blow after another. For openers, Saddam TV is off the air, meaning no Terry McAuliffe or Susan Sarandon or Michael Moore on the air. Garofalo's wet dream, the bloody battle for Baghdad, with planeloads of U.S. 'infidels' coming home in body bags, zapping public support for war, never happened. Coalition casualties remain well below that for Desert Storm, much to media chagrin.

Further demoralizing to Jessica Lange and other Fedayeen remnants: The lack of Stalingrad-like resistance by Iraqi forces, as U.S. tanks thrust into central Baghdad, storming Iraqi defenses, smashing symbols of Ba'athist power, seizing Saddam's opulent palaces and other buildings, in what Col. David Perkins called "a dramatic show of force" last weekend and Monday. The Allied advance on the capital has left Saddam's network of fanatics in Hollywood and Medialand stunned and grief-stricken. Politically, they feel as vulnerable as embedded reporters inside Iraqi tanks close to U.S. Marines.

"I do believe this city is freakin' ours," Capt. Chris Carter jubilantly declared Saturday, Mike Farrell and Rob Reiner sobbing uncontrollably. Even "Baghdad Bob," who Tuesday again denied there were 'infidel' invaders in Baghdad, vowing to 'slaughter' those 'infidel' invaders in Baghdad, couldn't buck Hollywood up anymore.

In southern Iraq, more dreadful news as "British paratroopers...walked unopposed into the center of Iraq's second city Basra" Monday "and," dealing Democrats a further stunning blow, "were warmly received,"

News that an A-10 "Warthog" had been shot down by enemy fire early Tuesday over Baghdad was, for the Left, too little, too late. Adding insult to injury, Reuters reports that "German prosecutors" have "launched a murder inquiry against" Saddam "after a Kurdish woman wounded in a 1987 gas attack in Iraq died in Germany last month."

"Health records and an autopsy on the woman offered preliminary evidence she died from gas after-effects," said Reuters, citing the "state prosecutors office in Nuremberg, a southern German city made famous as the home of the war crimes tribunal after World War Two."

But nothing compares to the shock and grief on the Left after news that Saddam may have been the bull's-eye of 4 JDAM bunker-busters in the Mansur district of Baghdad Monday afternoon.

"Two houses were flattened in an air raid on Mansur," Reuters glumly reports, adding that "Mansur is a stronghold of Saddam's Ba'ath Party. Security and military intelligence headquarters are located in the area, and the district is also home to many military officers."

The Washington Times reports that "Multiple U.S. intelligence sources saw Saddam Hussein enter a building in Baghdad Monday and not emerge before four 1-ton Air Force bombs destroy it. One official said some analysts believe the multiple eyewitness accounts suggest the Iraqi dictator is dead."

I've got even more solid confirmation: The grim, sullen look on Ba'ath Party faces since Monday. Judy Woodruff springs to mind. ;)

Anyway, that's..

My two cents...

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Good morning, JH2. Thanks for another right-on article....You "get it" and it seems like a lot of other folks are "getting it", too....Finally....

How about a late night pizza, with mushrooms, peppers, pepperoni, onions etc? And a cold beer (American) to wash it down with?

[EternalVigilance]

Keep Praying!

The day after liberation for some
But our boys still face pockets
Of Saddam's Baathist scum

Their lives are still on the line
And the fact that they're heroes
Continues to shine

So don't let up on the prayer support
Don't leave them hanging or stop just short
Pray them through until they come back
Our God can supply anything they lack

EV

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Dsisy.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody !! Happy Thursday !

Good job JH2 !! This is one time when I liked seein' them throw the baby
(Saddam or Kerry, take your pick) out with the Ba'ath water ! :O)

40 degrees as I post this, and headin' for ~72 today . . .

Have a cup while you FReep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoops, 41 degrees right now actually . . .

[AAABEST]

[EternalVigilance]

The Flower Grew in the Dark

How can it be?
From under the snow
The flowers emerge
And begin to grow

How can it be?
The seed that dies
Goes into the ground
Only to arise

How can the humble
The meek and the lost
Find redemption again?
Only at great cost

How can a people
Break the tyrant's chain?
If the strong will help them
They can rise again

Miracles happen
Every single day
If we will only work
If we will only pray

EV

[MeekOneGOP]

At first, when I saw the pic there, I thought this was tommy da$$hole kissing Bush ! I was Shock, and Awe ! :O)

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!

SO, I hear Billie's thread yesterday got "hijacked"!

But it was for a good cause, and folks are still celebrating with some caution as it ain't over yet!

but it's getting close to it! And those idiot libs are still crying that we should not have gone over there and that Saddam is somewhere in hiding and quite alive.

Also that we are going to "Get it" big time in retaliation. I would have argued more with them but it's kinda difficult when you're on a train and the next stop is yours! LOL!!

Well, folks, are we ready to break out the champaign yet?

oops! TOO FRENCH!

Hey, John, Loved you comments today!

Well, gotta run! Gotta get to work, but I'll be on later!

Have a blessed day!

[MeekOneGOP]

Howdy ! Headin' out to Bally's for my workout ! See ya'll in a couple of hours ! . . .

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for another right-on article....

My pleasure! And thanks for the great pics! Oh, and G'morning backatya ;)

[JohnHuang2]

G'morning, y'all :)

[JohnHuang2]

At first, when I saw the pic there, I thought this was tommy da$$hole kissing Bush ! I was Shock, and Awe !

hehehe!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, my friend, and G'morning to ya! :)

[Aeronaut]

Morning John.

[AAABEST]

Top of the morning to you JH.

[GailA]

Morning ALL...holding sides...LOL another WINNER John.

Coffee's on