Posted on 03/16/2006 7:34:19 AM PST by blu
50 aircraft,1500 Iraqui/ US Troops in Samra (n of baghdad) , largest air and land assult since we went in.
I'll go shopping and think of you!
Nearly bought a I "Shamrock" NY t-shirt today - but decided against it!
LOL!!!
It will be interesting to see if the 'actionable intelligence' for this operation was obtained from any of the 421 Al-Quaeda trying to infiltrate the green zone.
Of course, the big story in the MSM will be on interrogation methods, not the results.o
And they'll say it was done to "stop or prevent the civil war." Watch.
That's been their mantra. Civil war, civil war, civil war.
There hasn't even been a hint of a civil war here.
The media is a trip.
Well I'm a Somerset fan so it was nice to reread this quote.
Are you going to be there for the parade? That can be a lot of fun.
If so, {hic!} drink a green beer for me!
He used to make flights over Central and South America..
Heaven's forbid we should put some panties on their head to get some information.
LOL! So, pulling our troops out of Iceland is "unilateral". I'm sure they hate to lose the economic support, but what an idiotic yet predictable way for AyPee to report it.
DYING to go home a day or two. So, no... leaving tonight.
HAHAHA - we found out along with everyone else. We were in the chow hall and CNN {shudder!} stopped an interview and went to it. The banner on the bottom of the screen was flashing "US ATTACK - IRAQ."
For just a moment, I thought they were harkening back to 2003...LOL
What, specifically, are we bombing?
Gunships are an awesome weapons platform. Thank your son for me for his service. : )
Now that's a cool picture. yessirree, I'd be veerry nervous if I was a jihadi on the receiving end of one of those.
It's been less than 10 years ago that we were facing off against russian fighters and spyplanes attempting to test our security resolve over iceland..
Now we're just walking away..
Guess we're not worried about russia any more..
Sounds like an ignorant move to me..
What the administation could do to turn around public opinion on the war in the US and to give Shia confidence that they don't have to take matters into their own hands is to put maybe 40,000 more US troops into the country and go on many largescale offensives.
The public just wants to see more then anything that we are actually kicking the enemies ass in Iraq. They don't care if we have 100,000 troops in country or 170,000. To the average American it just seems like we are just sitting there as insurgents kill us and as Iraqis kill Iraqis. We haven't had an offensive that got real coverage from the press since Fallujah. Tal Afar got alittle coverage, but it came at a time the media was focused on the hurricane and other things.
And, if the president really wants to convince the US public he is serious about winning he will take out the damn terrorist training camps in Syria with a US and Iraqi offensive. Now that would boost his numbers and save American lives you don't get a better combo then that.
....your homepage is awesome...
If it was done to stop or prevent a civil war that's as good a reason as any. They really must be exterminated,and new means of entry blocked, much as one does to a nest of cockroaches.
I noticed that CNN now has their own "situation room." These freaks act like they think they are the government.
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