Posted on 06/21/2007 6:26:44 AM PDT by bnelson44
BAQUBA, Iraq, June 20 — Fighting was heavy in parts of Baquba on Wednesday as American troops continued to squeeze a large section of the city in an effort to rid it of insurgents believed to be part of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
Soldiers moved block by block through the city, the capital of Diyala Province, clearing houses and removing roadside bombs. As they pressed in, American troops discovered a medical aid station for insurgents — another sign that the Qaeda fighters had prepared for an intense fight. The hospital, uncovered by troops from the Fifth Battalion, 20th Infantry, was equipped with oxygen tanks, defibrillators, generators and surgical equipment, as well as pieces of insurgent propaganda.
The American effort got off to a slow start in the morning when blowing sand precluded reconnaissance and medevac flights. But as the weather cleared, the soldiers advanced into the western section of the city. Soldiers said they had received useful tips from some residents on the location of buried bombs and booby-trapped houses. In the Mufrek neighborhood, several residents said they had been terrorized for months by Qaeda fighters, who commandeered houses to use as positions to shoot at American forces.
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i don’t think it indicates bias — it’s just more of an historical term. it jumped out at me as being a bit curious in the 21st century.
Actually, I don’t want to talk to you. But you keep commenting to me out of the blue, I feel obliged to expose your liberaliam
LEADPENNY sure is tough behind the keyboard.... typing. you don’t really answer anything but sure do offer a smart@$$ reponses for legitimate questions to your ideology. Your article is relevant....to the liberal media agenda of “cut-and-run.” I’ll be waiting for your response to all the americans killed in our own cities, considering that too, is relevant in getting the perspective at just how few soldiers we have lost and how close to being completly victorious regardless the american body count in Iraq.
you type as though you are looking for a fight. Well, stick your head up your butt and fight for air...wait...that is a fight that has obviously been going on as long as the war in Iraq!
Concur that successes are under reported and deaths over reported. Problem is Americans are results oriented in an instant gratification way and the evening news isn’t reporting results.
Even towards the end of WWII, America was war weary. That’s why the bond tour with the Iwom Jima Flag raisers was so important. If Truman didn’t have the gonads to drop the bomb, you can wonder if the American populace would have stuck it out for unconditional surrender of Japan.
and the evening news isn’t reporting results.
This could be why:
REPORTERS GIVE DEMS MONEY OVER REPUBLICANS 9 TO 1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485
You’re an imbecile.
I guess I have you dialed in now!!!! No response except for simple name-calling..praytell, why am I an Imbecile?? Because you have been outed as a Liberal Troll who is more caught up in the soldiers passing than their successes? Let’s see this through.
Knock it off! leadpenny is not a troll.
End this flamewar now.
Hang the bastard!
What a load of propaganda fodder for anti-war groups. Not a word about the mission and all it may be accomplishing—just a run down on American deaths. But look at the source—an Arab working for AP.
vaudine
And yes, I have been promoted to moderator -- at least in my own mind.
There are a lot of FReeper keyboard kommandos who would have us give that up. But that's the difference between us and them -- and why would we give up the thing that makes us morally correct?
Ended.
Congratulations.
last word!
Thanks to both of you.
“last word!”
LOL!
Fair enough, I redact.
On the keyboard now but in nuke subs before.
We can fight and win this thing if we are allowed to.
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