Posted on 03/25/2003 6:18:40 PM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/26/03 - STRIKE VIDEOS, Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf, Yousifiya, Nasiriyah, Basra
BREAKING: STRIKE VIDEOS
Iraqi GPS jammer destroyed
Iraqi patrol boat destroyed
R republican guard tank destroyed
BREAKING: STRIKE IMAGES
Palace guard facility
Special Security facility
Iraqi Intelligence facility
BREAKING: IMAGES OF FREEDOM THE MEDIA MAY HAVE MISSED
Baghdad - Saddam as Palace as Ozymandius
Baghdad - War Crimes against Civilians
Baghdad - War Crimes against the Iraqi people
Baghdad - War Crimes against POWs
Baghdad - Shuffle at the top
Karbala - Incredible weather
Najaf, Yousifiya
Nasiriyah - Ambush of Heroes
Southern Iraq - Iraqi children cheer liberating soldiers
Southern Iraq - British Household Cavalry.
Basra - Iraqi terrorist/soldiers dressed in civilian clothes
Basra - some areas are now free of Iraqi terror
UPDATE
========= STRIKE RESULTS =========
STRIKE VIDEOS
An Iraqi GPS jammer is destroyed
An Iraqi patrol boat in a canal is destroyed
A republican guard tank is destroyed
STRIKE IMAGES
Palace guard facility - before air strikes.
Palace guard facility- before and after air strikes
Palace Guard Facility in Iraq before and after air strikes.
Special Security facility - after air strikes.
Special Security facility in Iraq before air strikes.
Iraqi Intelligence facility - after air strikes.
Iraqi Intelligence facility in Iraq before air strikes.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, empty streets, fierce sandstorm, and pollution by
Saddam's thick smoke from burning oil trenches.
Ozymandius by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart . . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
War Crimes of Iraq
In Baghdad, at Saddam's burning fuel trenches.
In Baghdad, ground-truthing.
In Baghdad, at the al-Durra oil refinery, Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammad al-Rashid.
In Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf,
now running Iraq in competion with Azziz, denied Baghdad was receiving
technical advice from Russian experts on how to jam British and US military hardware.
It was reported that he later laughed that it was Tikrit that actually got the advice.
In Baghdad, at the Information Ministry, a gaggle of journalists watch the replay of pre-recorded tapes of Saddam on TV.
In Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf,
boasted about the captured American hero Apache helicopter pilots
who had been displayed contrary to the Rules of War.
In Baghdad, on the trail of Tariq Aziz, at a Baghdad hotel press conference.
Aziz insisted that either one of Saddam's doubles, or himself, or the Minister
of Information, would remain in control of the country.
Baghdad/Iraq from space by NOAA satellite. Hot spots - arrow.
========= New Baghdad =========
In New Baghdad, a suburb of Baghdad, Iraqi children safely watch the ultraprecise
US bombing of Saddams regime. The oils fires ringing the city are more
of Saddam's war crimes.
========= Karbala =========
Near Karbala, American Army champions meet weather of biblical proportions.
========= Najaf =========
In Najaf, gallant Army engineers and their equipment.
In Najaf, paladins of freedom process Iraqis, and move on.
========= Yousifiya =========
In Yousifiya, ~20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraqi armoured personnel carrier
and other terrorist transport systems were taken.
========= Nasiriyah =========
In Nasiriyah, Iraq, valiant Marines enter by a transport helicopter.
In Nasiriyah, Iraq, protector US marines retrieve an American hero, KIA,
after ambush by Iraqi forces disguised who egregiously feigned surrender.
========= Southern Iraq =========
In southern Iraq, Iraqi children cheer liberating soldiers
In southern Iraq, heroes everywhere. 105mm guns push north.
Somewhere in southern Iraq, US medic heroes mark out a landing zone at a captured airfield.
In southern Iraq, US Army soldiers carry a wounded Iraqi.
US Marine heroes escort captured enemy prisoners of war to a holding area.
Medical care and food were given unlike the evil Iraqis.
In Southern Iraq, at the burning oil wells, with the British Household Cavalry.
========= Basra =========
In Basra, British and American Marine heroes fought for control,
and brought down Saddam's images.
In Basra, Iraq, Marine heroes escort Iraqi terrorist/soldiers dressed in civilian clothes.
In Basra, Iraq, heroes everywhere.
In Basra, at the airport, A British soldier inspects weapons abandoned by the Iraqis.
In Basra, some areas are now free of Iraqi terror.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/26/03 .......... K
Pay What We Owe
War is hell
So many pay
Freedom's price
In death they lay
But to bend our knees
To evil's threat
Would be far worse
Than to pay that debt
So bring the glory
Bring the gore
Cause we know damn well
What we're fighting for
Come what may
We'll win this fight
As our banners fly
By the dawn's early light
Our foe will bow
And not our side
Though the awful cost
Will make us cry
But when it's o'er
Our heads held high
We'll know they did
Our vict'ry buy
So honor them
And praise their names
The least they've earned
Is a heroes fame
EV
But I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Great as always. Keep on bumpin'.
Prayers for all our selfless heroes!
030322-N-2578S-001 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Mar. 22, 2003) -- The guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) toward Iraq during the initial stages of shock and awe. Porter is deployed with coalition forces in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Christopher Senenko. (RELEASED)
I would be curious to see how he explained the turret rammed up his ass.
And then some.
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