British Engage Column of Iraqi Vehicles

AP | 3/26/03 | DOUG MELLGREN

[madison46]

Now on to that 1,000 veh column.

[Lee Heggy]

"The vehicles were moving south along Highway 6."

I believe the operative word in that phrase is 'were'.

[AdA$tra]

Now on to that 1,000 veh column.

I was hoping as I heard about that column leaving Baghdad on FNC, that it was already dead. Seems like an EASY target for our flyboys.

[nevergore]

Strumming guitar sounds of "Highway to Hell" are drifting by....

NeverGore :^)

[jiggyboy]

Heh heh, another turkey shoot -- wonder why the Iraqi Army thinks we won't strafe them into another ten-mile stretch of charcoal, or if they are all kamikaze drivers who have been ordered to die in the road just to delay us for a couple of hours or days.

[Smogger]

But he added: ``Anyone who's engaged in an uprising has a whole lot of courage, and I sure hope they're successful.''

I heard him say this this morning on TV. We gotta do better then that though, Rummy. This is where special forces could come in handy.

[Capt. Tom]

let's hope it ends like this -Tom

[Az Joe]

Alright I'll ask it:

Any chance these idiots are trying to find a way to surrender?

[TADSLOS]

``The bunch of desperados who've lived above the law rule the roost in this dictatorship, this regime that Saddam Hussein has been running,'' said Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt, spokesman for British forces in the Persian Gulf

Wow! This Brit has been taking cowboy language lessons from GW. LOL!

[TADSLOS]

Any chance these idiots are trying to find a way to surrender?

If they are they're going about it all wrong. Looks like they forgot to pack their French military tactics manuals.

[LiberationIT]

My guess is they are sacrificial lambs. Their job is to create another highway to hell so the Susan Sarandon's of the world will start sobbing loudly and call for an end to the war.

[Question_Assumptions]

Hopefully, they haven't dragged too many civilians along for the ride.

[D-fendr]

Wonder why they're heading south from Basra? Can't get out to the North?

[Southack]

When your communications have been compromised, every now and again you'll get a real sadistic enemy who will issue "commands" to your fellow Republican Guard members, acting as though they are the commands from Saddam himself, except that they'll be commands such as "leave your protected urban cover and go charging along an open highway to frontally attack the enemy".

But then again, if you only have the average Middle-Eastern 5th grade education, you might fall for such "commands".

Suckers!

[hchutch]

Either that or, "All units fall back to Baghdad!"

Get `em out in the open, then let the Warthogs, Harriers, Apaches, and Cobra do their thing.

[Rain-maker]

[P-Marlowe]

If they're out in the open you can bring in the B1's B2's and B52's not to mention the Daisy cutters and MOAB's.

[TheLooseThread]

"Alright I'll ask it:

Any chance these idiots are trying to find a way to surrender?"

I was thinking the same thing. I image that surrendering armor would procede with turrets turned backwards and white flags would be displayed, but I'm not sure.

[GreyWolf]

I'll bet the virgins are gettin' scarce. They're probly down to the really ugly ones by now!