The Thunder Run: 'Fewer Than 1,000 Soldiers Were Ordered to Capture a City of 5 Million Iraqis.'

The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 7, 2003 | David Zucchino

[F16Fighter]

Thanks for the reminders...

[dano1]

No, it was just the first phase of Saddam's brilliant counterattack strategy, Operation "Dress Up Like A Woman And Lose My Sons".

So I suppose Saddam still is refusing to budge on the weapon inspection issue too. Perhaps Dean is right. It may be time to get the Soviet Union involved.

[glorgau]

You sure as heck won't see too many dead armor crewman!

This was the difference between Mogadishu and Baghdad. They went in with heavy armor and used firepower unsparingly. This is the correct way to conduct warfare. The Army is not a police force, it is a killing machine.

[Let's Roll]

Our guys ROCK! They are the best of us.

[tlb]

Perkins was eager to go back in, but not for another thunder run. He wanted to stay. He had just heard Mohammed Said Sahaf, the bombastic information minister, deliver a taunting news conference, claiming that no American forces had entered Baghdad and that Iraqi troops had slaughtered hundreds of American "scoundrels" at the airport.

When Perkins got back to the brigade operations center south of the city, he told his executive officer, Lt. Col. Eric Wesley: "This just changed from a tactical war to an information war. We need to go in and stay."




Irony is sweet. Sometimes the spin works, and sometimes it comes back to bite you.

[samtheman]

I don't register for the LA Times. But I'll take your word for it. A small force of American soldiers can be a mighty force indeed. I believe it and am very much proud and appreciative of it. However, I still don't think we need the advance bugle-call of high-sounding rhetoric. We just just go in, pile up a mountain of bad-guy-corpses and get out.

[ASA Vet]

As a fellow newbie, I have a slightly different problem.
I can't seem to just lurk so tend to stick my foot
in my mouth too often. ;-)