"Shock and Awe" Begins

FOX NEWS TV | 3.21.03

[Enemy Of The State]

Fox subtite just announces that the "Shock and Awe" has begun!

[CedarDave]

Dumb, dumb reporters question -- she just can't believe that President didn't watch such terrible bombing. Ari said he was with him at the time, not watching it. Ari said President doesn't need TV to know what is going on.

[valleygal]

C'ya. I think I need a break soon, too.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

What is the Smoker's lounge? :)

A daily thread where smokers chat, share links to current FR smoking threads, drink, smoke, flirt, and occasionaly have a brawl if things get fiesty enough.

[LibertyGirl77]

Amen, McCool. Welcome to FR.

[BSunday]

Such MORONS ought to have their credentials revoked. I think she was trying to imply that GW did not fully realize the consequences of his actions, and deliberately shielded himself from the images. What an IDIOT.. and I am "series" !

[E Rocc]

There will be no Smoker's Lounge today unless there is a demand for it.

Looks like there's some pretty heavy smoking going on somewhere

-Eric

[valleygal]

These reporters are dipsticks, aren't they?

[Just another Joe]

What is the Smoker's lounge? :)

The Free Republic Smokers' Lounge is a Friday thing where you will find a comfy place to smoke, drink, joke or whatever.
We always have a great time, so sit back, relax and...

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

It's found in the General Interest section, normally on Friday afternoons.

[COBOL2Java]

Another reporter: "If Saddam and his sons were to surrender right now, would we offer them a safe haven from this bombing?"

[valleygal]

I saw that info about the $14,0000 on FOX scroll, I think early today....wait very large booms going on and FOX says LIVE...anybody?

[Buggman]

Babylon was already made unihabited circa 600 AD by the Persians.

No it wasn't. It became the seat of Persian power in the west, Babylon having been taken virtually without a fight (see Daniel 4 and 5 and Josephus' Antiquities). It wasn't until the Seleucids that the trade routes moved north to what is today Baghdad and Babylon faded from importance.

However, that's not what the prophecies say will happen. They describe a great army decending on Babylon and putting everyone to the sword. They describe Babylon becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah in its destruction. And Isaiah 13 (pardon the lack of a verse citation, but I'm at work and without my Bible handy, so I'm doing this from memory) specifically states that "no Arab will pitch his tent in her" again.

Obviously, with Saddam having spent billions of dollars rebuilding Babylon (albiet as the Disneyland of the Middle-east), that prophecy either has not yet taken place, or is false. Since other cross-references put it as a part of the eschatological Day of the Lord sequence of events, I opt for the latter.

I agree that Baghdad is on a different river, and Jeremiah specifically mentions the Euphrates, not the Tigris, which means that todays events can in no way be taken as a fulfillment of prophecy. My point was that even if we expanded our interpretation to include Baghdad as well as literal Babylon, the destruction today doesn't match that in the prophecy anyway.

Yours in Truth,

[COBOL2Java]

Video's gone from the MSNBC link, just audio.

[Paulus Invictus]

Chirac! Is that you?

[SerpentDove]

Iraq, I rack 'em up, and I roll-

Clint Black

[valleygal]

Per the Brit journalist on FOX men, women and children caught in the shrapnel

[The Red Zone]

Not for me.

[CedarDave]

New attacks in Bagdad; Fox switches from Ari to David Chater in Baghdad.

[Bella_Bru]

I don't smoke...can I come if I get some candy cigarettes?

Well of course! The only folks not invited or wanted in the Smoker's Lounge are those that are militantly anti smoking.

[valleygal]

Said they were shopping or playing in the street! WHAT?