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U.S. forces fight at Nassiriya, suffer casualties
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| 3-23-03
| By Sean Maguire
Posted on 03/23/2003 7:11:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nice of CNN to edit the minister's words for him. He said "SWAMP".
Looks like 10 casualties in this attack as per CNNs embed.
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posted on
03/23/2003 7:13:53 AM PST
by
max_rpf
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead," he said.If the dead emerge, they're pretty much not dead. Oh, those silly saddamites.
To: max_rpf
It occurs to me that our decision not to prepare the battlefield with airpower in a 2 or 3 week sustained campaign, as we did in the Gulf war, may cost us significantly more ground casualties.
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posted on
03/23/2003 7:18:35 AM PST
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: Arkie2
"It occurs to me that our decision not to prepare the battlefield with airpower in a 2 or 3 week sustained campaign, as we did in the Gulf war, may cost us significantly more ground casualties." I think that is the price we had to pay for securing the oil fields and from the sound of it we were very successful (only 9 of 500 wells? sabotaged).
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posted on
03/23/2003 7:22:12 AM PST
by
CatOwner
To: Arkie2
The pockets of resistance are Saddam's internal security forces. Their orders are to resist behind our lines, and hide behind civilians.
We have have to root them out.
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posted on
03/23/2003 7:22:20 AM PST
by
tomahawk
To: Arkie2
Maybe a few more casualties. But an air campaign first is what the Iraqis expected. The surprise of the blitzkrieg ground invasion first, mixed with shock & awe will prove to be the best move. If you can't handle 10 casualties, turn off the news.
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Amazing the number of wimps around here.
As a teenager I was in a gang rumble where just as many wound up in the ER. Didn't even make the local papers.
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posted on
03/23/2003 7:26:15 AM PST
by
lavrenti
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Just heard on Meet the Press that some of our boys may have been taken prisoner and executed.
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posted on
03/23/2003 7:27:05 AM PST
by
Bahbah
(Pray for our Troops)
To: lavrenti
We've got 250,000 troops in the region who are invading a soveriegn nation of over several million. We're not going to finish this with three paper cuts and a hang nail.
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Well I don't have to "handle" the casualties and neither do you have to "handle" the casualties sitting safely behind your keyboard drinking your morning coffee. What an asinine and idiotic thing to say. Perhaps the troops in the field who actually have to "handle" the casualties have a different opinion.
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posted on
03/23/2003 8:39:58 AM PST
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: *war_list
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posted on
03/23/2003 8:52:15 AM PST
by
Free the USA
(Stooge for the Rich)
To: Arkie2
Note that what Reuters reported as "significant casualties" appears to amount to...about ten.
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posted on
03/23/2003 8:53:57 AM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
To: okie01
Nice handle, neighbor!
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posted on
03/23/2003 8:56:21 AM PST
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: Arkie2
The thousands of pro Sadaam/anti Bush marchers in our large cities are encouraged by your reaction.
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Kiss my ass.
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posted on
03/23/2003 11:16:05 AM PST
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: Arkie2
Bear it on your next peace march through the bay area
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Preparing the battlefield is standard US doctrine you simpleminded bloodthirsty jackass. We didn't get it right because we waltzed too long with the UN and we're to damn preoccupied with minimizing civilian casualties. If you think that's a pacifist view, it's one that has been expressed by the leadership in our military. That's my point. 20 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a Gulf War veteran. What's your experience? Slinging a witty keyboard? Armchair generals like you really should stick to your knitting.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:20:43 PM PST
by
Arkie2
(TSA ="Thousands standing around")
To: Arkie2
Military genius,
Based on our objective, which is regime change, we don't want to obliterate Iraqi troops, but have them surrender. How much support are we going to get from the Iraqi people if we use MOABs to kill 100K of their fathers, sons, relatives??? Run the Psyops, scare the hell out of them with shock & awe, & get them to capitulate. Once we're in, we're in better shape. We will suffer behind the lines resistance which will kill many Americans, but based on our objective their is no way around it
You're air power to soften things up for the ground troops worked well to move the Iraqis out of Kuwait. Had you recommended these tactics on your War College paper for this war, They'd have laughed you out of Maxwell.
Obviously you didn't learn alot about military ops flying 141s around for 20 years.
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