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U.S. admits hardest day, slams prisoner pictures
Reuters
| 3/23/03
Posted on 03/23/2003 12:32:42 PM PST by kattracks
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:32:42 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
"admits"?
War is hell.... they never said it was going to be a cake walk...geez.
I HATE REUTERS
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:34:29 PM PST
by
smith288
(Visit my gallery http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/hollywood/hollywood.php)
To: kattracks
The list of war crimes commited by Iraqi soliders continue to mount. The Geneva Convention means nothing to them.
Both the phrases "allegatons of war crimes" and "violations of the Geneva Convention" need to appear in all of our side's future press conferences; we have truth on our side.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:37:04 PM PST
by
weegee
(McCarthy was right, Fight The Red Menace)
To: kattracks
"I saw that and I would ask others not to do that. I regard the showing of those pictures as absolutely unacceptable," the three-star lieutenant general told the briefing at Central Command headquarters in Qatar. A British military spokesman also condemned the TV pictures.
Their word is good enough for me. NO PICTURES!!!!!
To: smith288
Yup... the reality of war is people get injured and if they're unlucky, they die. We knew this coming in. Our advantage in this conflict is we carry with us a simple powerful idea the enemy fears and loathes. If this war doesn't make clear the inherent superiority of a free society over a totalitarian one, nothing will.
To: smith288
War is hell.... they never said it was going to be a cake walk...geez. You're right, but looking at the flip side Fox News was sure making things look like things were sailing along famously up until today. I think we all knew it couldn't last. So far I haven't found a news source that seems reliable and avoids sensationalism.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:39:37 PM PST
by
Randjuke
To: kattracks
Surfing channels I believe I just saw live, on msnbc, a firefight and one of our guys come out of a bldg. on fire...
I hope I am wrong, but this live war coverage is wrong!
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:39:53 PM PST
by
litehaus
To: kattracks
When will we say to the Iraqis....
If one of our POWs is tortured or executed, we will put them, and you, all out of misery with a nice little Nuking of Baghdad!
Let's just kill them all and let allah sort them out.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:40:05 PM PST
by
SONbrad
To: smith288
Reuters seems more like an arm of the Iraqi government than anything else.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:41:43 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: Randjuke
Knowing how iraq treats POWs, i dont think i would want to stick around long enought to endure their abuse... Just shoot me....
Of course, im not in the situation... may God end their pain post haste.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:45:13 PM PST
by
smith288
(Visit my gallery http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/hollywood/hollywood.php)
To: kattracks
One of my friends at church has a son in the Marine Corps...she's extremely distraught about his possibility of being in Harm's Way. I told her, "the Marines are the best in the world, and they've given him the best (equipment, training) in the world!" I meant every word of it, and I'm a former sailor! But, then again, I remember the Marine security force we had at DaNang--a hell of a a$$-kicking jarhead outfit who kept us safe.
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posted on
03/23/2003 12:46:40 PM PST
by
meandog
To: kattracks
when questioned by a reporter from Al Jazeera Unreal. Imagine Eisenhower taking questions from a Nazi news agency in WW II.
To: kattracks
Lurking on DU (I've been banned) I found comments almost as bad as Arab media...check out what this "clymer" said about the prisoners of war:
If the US POW's are being executed then I'm sorry, but the Iraqis does (sic) have legal right to do that, after all, it is THEIR country we are invading.
Hawkeye-X
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:01:57 PM PST
by
meandog
To: meandog
Get us Hawkeye X's home address. We're heading there. What a horrible statement to make.
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:10:59 PM PST
by
Cate
((LET FREEDOM RING!!!!))
To: kattracks
OK, correct me if I'm wrong, but the hardest fighting we have had so far has come from mop up engagements with Iraqi paramilitary militia loyal to Sadaam, not the Iraqi military. And that is using small group guerrilla attacks like ambushes, fake surrenders, dressing in civilian clothes, attacking and capturing less well armed rear support troops, etc. Guerilla fighting is a whole different ballgame than normal conventional warfare and can be very dangerous with lots of potential casualties.
To: meandog
With regard to DU, I think there's a possibility that some over there are posting extreme material with the hope of provoking some kind of legal action from our government, in particular the Department of Justice (John Ashcroft, one of their boogymen). The same may be true of some of the more extreme "protestors" we are hearing about.
(steely)
To: smith288
Yahoo has posted still images from the TV broadcasts and attributed to Reuters.
To: weegee
I was wondering if someone wanted to compile a list of stories on war crimes? You?
I am trying to do the surrenders.
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:20:52 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: kattracks
This is bad news for us. Our guys are now in an impossible situation; execute POWs, lie about surrender and shell us, dress up as civilians and then ambush us. It is just a matter of time until we make a mistake, take out a bunch of innocents and get blamed as bad guys.
Pray this does not happen.
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:28:21 PM PST
by
schu
To: Cate
Get us Hawkeye X's home address. We're heading there. What a horrible statement to make....wish I could but my account was banned (because I called the "human shields" idiots)...
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:48:34 PM PST
by
meandog
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