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Major US Offensive Underway in Samarra
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Posted on 09/30/2004 2:59:12 PM PDT by conservativepoet

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To: afnamvet
Father we ask you for victory over these evil ones, the killers of children.

Amen! I always appreciate you guys who launch into prayer on this board. I never have the words but I always repeat the prayers...:-)

21 posted on 09/30/2004 3:14:57 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: conservativepoet

Great, keep these people off balance.


22 posted on 09/30/2004 3:16:28 PM PDT by JLS
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To: conservativepoet

Finish it this time. Let the dogs bark.


23 posted on 09/30/2004 3:17:26 PM PDT by Prince Caspian (Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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To: Raycpa

Sleeeper cell or foe?


24 posted on 09/30/2004 3:18:49 PM PDT by wingnuts'nbolts (keep your eye on the donut not on the hole)
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To: TexasCajun
The thought of that put a smile on my face after a hard day!

Thinking it up put one one mine as well, after a long day...

(popping a cold one)

25 posted on 09/30/2004 3:19:02 PM PDT by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: Raycpa

you cant upstage yourself with 35 dead children on the ground.


26 posted on 09/30/2004 3:19:28 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: Prince Caspian; Travis McGee; Jeff Head

Let's hope we beat the crap outta them before it becomes politically expedient to back off and negotiate their next cease fire...


27 posted on 09/30/2004 3:20:50 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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To: Types_with_Fist
I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.

LOL. I thought I was the only one that did that.

28 posted on 09/30/2004 3:25:09 PM PDT by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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To: AFreeBird
An aid comes to the podium to whisper in W's ear....
29 posted on 09/30/2004 3:27:06 PM PDT by traumer
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To: traumer

Enough is enough...we need to go into every no go zone ..tell all the women and children to leave..then bombs away


30 posted on 09/30/2004 3:30:39 PM PDT by lotex
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To: EricT.

I will be reading an article and find myself looking for the post reply. I am scarred for life.


31 posted on 09/30/2004 3:35:36 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (I volunteer to instruct JFK on the meaning of a purple heart!!)
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To: lotex

This is JUST WRONG.

Sorry but we need a kinda and gentler war against those who blow up little children.

Give peace a chance :)


32 posted on 09/30/2004 3:36:07 PM PDT by Cheetah1
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To: Cheetah1

Oh I forgot...

Also "those poor rebels and freedom fighters"


33 posted on 09/30/2004 3:36:35 PM PDT by Cheetah1
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To: madison46
Finish it. Don't fight over the same terrain twice

Very well said.

I am praying for our guys.

34 posted on 09/30/2004 3:37:54 PM PDT by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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To: conservativepoet

Any detail on the participant units? Marine, Air Force, Coast Guard.


35 posted on 09/30/2004 3:38:14 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (I volunteer to instruct JFK on the meaning of a purple heart!!)
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To: TexasCajun
Yea, aid comes to the podium to whisper in W's ear.... a la 9/11... audience and den-o-rat nervousness abounds... W with the "smirk" looks at sKerry and announces Zarqawi's demise

Do you think that W would wait 7 minutes to make the announcement?

36 posted on 09/30/2004 3:38:16 PM PDT by Roland
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6382956

U.S. Launches Offensive in Samarra, CNN Reports
Thu Sep 30, 2004 06:26 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces accompanied by the Iraqi national guard launched a major offensive against insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra Thursday, CNN reported.
CNN's reporter in Iraq, Jane Arraf, in a live broadcast from the city, said she was accompanying U.S. forces engaged in the attack, which she described as "an entire brigade-size operation into Samarra to root out insurgents."

She said she had been told there were an estimated 2,000 fighters in the rebel stronghold, including 250 foreigners.

Arraf said the city had previously had been off limits to U.S. forces under an agreement that they would not patrol there.

But Iraqi cities, including Baghdad, have been rocked by growing violence, including three car bombings Thursday that killed 41 people, most of them children.

The U.S. military has said that with the help of Iraqi forces it will retake rebel strongholds such as Samarra, Falluja, Ramadi and the Baghdad neighborhoods of Sadr City and Haifa Street by the end of the year so that elections can go ahead in January.

In a telephone call punctuated several times by explosions, Arraf said the troops were nearing the middle of the city in an assault spearheaded by the 3rd Brigade of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division.

The force was moving through the city sector by sector to clear out insurgents, she said, reporting on explosions by rocket propelled grenades and bursts of machine gun fire.


37 posted on 09/30/2004 3:40:36 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Roland

lol

Bush won't likely be making that announcement tonight during the debate. We can dream though!!!

Let's hope he makes it soon!


38 posted on 09/30/2004 3:40:52 PM PDT by Cheetah1
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To: Walkingfeather; All

President Bush didn't kill those children.


39 posted on 09/30/2004 3:41:04 PM PDT by olde north church
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To: Roland

Bush would make the announcement in seven seconds.


40 posted on 09/30/2004 3:41:30 PM PDT by dc-zoo
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