Posted on 03/23/2003 9:10:39 AM PST by Lessismore
On Sunday afternoon, the Qatar-based television al Jazeera broadcast Iraqi TV, showing a videotape of at least 10 US POWs, including one female soldier, and a room with some 15 bodies of US troops. The live broadcast included also a footage of a battle field area in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya with additional corpses of US soldiers as well as struck military equipment.
The videotape has also shown how the Iraqis investigate the American POWs. The prisoners were questioned on air and gave their names, military identification numbers and home towns.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force conceded that there were American soldiers missing, but said that there were fewer than 10 troops unaccounted for in southern Iraq.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned Sunday it was possible that Iraqi forces had taken U.S. prisoners, saying there were unaccounted soldiers and journalists in the combat zone.
He noted that under the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."
Earlier, it was reported that U.S. Marines battled for control of Nassiriya, taking "significant" casualties in a fight to open a route north to Baghdad, military officials said.
Reuters quoted military officials as saying the Marine battalion spearheading the fight had suffered significant casualties in the battle.
A total of 11 U.S. soldiers were captured after taking a wrong turn, and 50 military personnel have been wounded in the massive firefight in Nassiriya, ABCNEWS reported Sunday.
According to the report, 11 soldiers, maintenance workers, had taken a wrong turn outside the city on a mission to carry out repair work. They were traveling in a column of vehicles that came under heavy fire, including from an Iraqi tank. The capture was observed by other forces nearby.
The firefight at Nassiriya blocked an advance by U.S. forces, who had earlier reported securing two key bridgeheads to enable them to cross the Euphrates and strike northwards toward the Iraqi capital.
Reuters said there was heavy U.S. helicopter traffic over the area, and that hundreds of U.S. military trucks and armored personnel carriers had stopped their advance.
Iraqi Information Minister Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference in Baghdad that foreign invaders headed to Nassiriya had been "taught a lesson they will never forget." "We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead," he said. (Albawaba.com)
Let me ask you this: IF SADDAM HAD BEEN PAYING $25,000 TO THE FAMILY OF EVERY PILOT IN 9/11, WOULD THAT CHANGE YOUR MIND?
If not, you are a cruel heartless fool. If so, you are an anti-semitic bigot.
But beyond bigotry, it is naivete. To Iraq, Osama, etc., America=Israel. So when we find Iraq sponsoring terror against Israel, when supposedly they are so destitute from sanctions, WE CAN BE DAMNED SURE HE SPONSORS TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICA. WHEN WE FIND THE "SMOKING GUN" THAT YOU LIBERALS WANT PRIOR TO TOPPLING THIS MURDERER, IT WILL BE TOO LATE.
I notice that is something common among French, Germans, and Russians - a high degree of anti-semitism seems to correlate with opposition to this war.
No confusion about it - it IS Hussein coddling.
I've never seen an antiwar liberal or a paleocon moron that wasn't ready, willing and eager to insert his or her opinion that a powermad lunatic dictator isn't a real threat. Of course, those same "brilliant" antiwar liberals don't have the responsibility to govern, nor do they have access to the materials that are seen by people who have to make the call. In other words, they want us to take as gospel their judgment that a madman and his sons are sane. It is further instructive that a large number of the people that expect us to respect their judgments on this get into riots, hit cops and turn over newspaper boxes (or at the very least, tolerate those who do) - so I wonder why their judgment on anything should be respected.
I don't know why the presence of a corrupt power monger makes you people fly into paroxysms of ass kissing.
According to you we are no better than they.
We are putting our troops at great risk by showing unprecedented care to their "civilian" population.
Since you are too stupid to put two and two together, let me enlighten you. Iraq would nuke the U.S.A. to a cinder if they had the ability. The fact that Baghdad still exists and is not glowing from heat and radiation proves we are not like them.
You are supremely ignorant and not worthy of a keyboard.
Now, go back to your hippie protest group and don't forget to take one of your crack pipes. Bye
I love our troops, and at this point I hope they win and fast and with as little blood as possible, and get home. But I wish we'd never gone and picked this fight. I don't give a f*ck about the UN or any of its resolutions--about Iraq or anything else--and I haven't seen any evidence of a connection between 9-11 and Saddam. If you have it, then send it along, I'd love to see it.
I support our President--people on this board know that well, I was on the streets for him in November 2000--and I support our troops, and I would never make common cause with the wacko commie America-haters who are marching in the streets, even apologizing for Islamic terrorism. But even if we've already won this thing by Wednesday, I will still be worried about the precedent this whole thing sets, and whether we're going to be paying higher taxes and increasing the size of our government so that it can invade countries all over the world where we have no interests at stake.
I see. If it were up to me, she'd have trouble finding her American citizenship.
Disgusting.
Palpatine is an ass-kisser--just check out this thread. To him, you're not a real conservative if you actually think we should criticize Bush and pressure him to act like a conservative every now and then. Real conservatives suck up to the commander-in-chief, regardless of the issue.
I wasn't. I mean, it was a new low, but I've seen plenty of "tripe" coming from that direction. I guess you missed the whole "Taliban was demonized" exchange, Race.
Out there. Really.
PRAISE be to GOD who answers PRAYER!
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