GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 03/27/03-Umm Qasr,T15s,mines,caches,freed Iraqis

Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 3/27/03 | Pres. Bush and the valiant Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

[Diogenesis]

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/27/03 - Umm Qasr, Many patriotic nations and species,
Iraqi T15 Minelayers, captured mines, weapons caches, freed Iraqis,
water and aid delivered uncontrolled by Saddam
GOTTA HEAR THIS

BREAKING: Umm Qasr - Many patriotic nations and species
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - Iraqi T15 Minelayers and captured mines
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - weapons caches in trenches and "schools" and ....
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - freed Iraqi citizens cheer
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - terror is ending
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - Iraqis receive water and aid uncontrolled by Saddam

========= Umm Qasr - Getting Freed by Coaliton Forces =========

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In Umm Qasr, heroes of the British Royal Marines and MEU 'Raiders' have taken control.

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Marine heroes AGAIN help injured POWs.
How different remains the terrorist Iraqi treatment of POWs.

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In Umm Qasr, champions of the 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) moving north.

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In Umm Qasr,the water treatment plant.

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In Umm Qasr, Royal Navy heroes detect mines and secure Iraq's only deep-water port.

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In Umm Qasr, Polish patriotic SF in the port of Umm Qasr
with Navy Seals. Go GROM.

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In Umm Qasr, Australian heroes detect mines; found 4 mines during his last dive.

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In Umm Qasr, patriotic dolphins detect mines.

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In Umm Qasr, captured terrorist Lugum mines.

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In Umm Qasr, HMS Brockelsby on a mine hunting operation.
Found were two recently discovered manta mines and a Lugum mine.

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Captured Iraqi T15 Minelayers.

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In Umm Qasr, at the weapons caches are found, left by the Iraqi army.

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In Umm Qasr, other weapons caches were revealed by the liberated Iraqis.

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In Umm Qasr, at a "school" where rocket-propelled grenades and mortars
were found. Some school.

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In Umm Qasr, freed Iraqi citizens cheer and wave.

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In Umm Qasr, terror is ended.

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In Umm Qasr, Iraqis receive aid and help, uncontrolled by Saddam,

as President Bush promised.

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In Umm Qasr, Iraqis receive water uncontrolled by Saddam.
Score a big one for the good guys.

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To Any Iraqi Lurkers:

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GOTTA HEAR THIS

To the Gallant Valiant Heroes of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, and the Rest:
Stay safe, Good hunting, Fly like the Wind.

SONG FOR TODAY, FOR THE WAR ON ENDURING FREEDOM
(long load of music and war pictures)

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"I won't back down" [Link from Tiggerfoot; thanks]

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Please spend a few hours today helping for success in the War for Enduring Freedom,
or/and post your thought, missive, picture, thread, analysis, greetings to those serving overseas,
venting, update, correction, observation, or anything else of interest.
Pick another city and post some pictures, or a thread. Thank you.

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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/27/03 .......... K

[stlnative]

Dio... Terrific Job as always!


This picture should be printed on flyers and dropped on Baghdad (maybe they should take another with some friendly Iraqis standing next to our men shaking hands with each other. They should also take some of the Iraqis and our men sitting down and eating food together.)

[Daniel Ramsey]

Outstanding! we need to see more of this! great great job to our armed forces and coalition forces! thank you!

[ccmay]

The Knights Templar ride again!

The "two men on one horse" motif is well remembered and hated by the descendants of Ishmael.

-ccm

[stlnative]

U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit remove a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from the wall at the Iraqi Naval base in Az Zubayr, in southern Iraq's desert, Sunday, March 23, 2003.


A British Army Challenger II tank crushes a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at a former military training ground outside the southern city of Basra, March 27, 2003. British troops battling to take Basra, Iraq's second city, have taken over the local radio and television stations, Sky television news said on Thursday.


An unidentified U.S. Marines hangs a sign, making a joke about slow moving troops, along their road to Bagdad, north of Nasiriya in central Iraq, Thursday, March 27, 2003.


Lance Cpl Jose Miguel Garcia Gonzalez, left, from Houston, Tx, takes advantage of a satphone belonging to a journalist to call his mother while Pvt 1st Class Omar Desoto, from Glennville, Ga, looks on, along a road heading Bagdad, near Nasiriya in central Iraq, Thursday, March 27, 2003. They are with the 3rd Batallion, 4th Marines Regiment and have not been able to call their loved one for three months.


The Iraqi communication center is damaged during an air strike in Baghdad, March 27, 2003. Powerful explosions rocked central Baghdad on Thursday and more blasts shook the city outskirts Iraq's capital marked a week since the start of a U.S.-led war to oust President Saddam Hussein.

[stlnative]

Members of the US Coast Guard, Port Security Unit 313, based in Tacoma, Wash., stand over a picture of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the Mina al Bakr oil terminal in the North Arabian Gulf in Iraq - Monday, March 24, 2003. The unit is maintaining security on Iraqi oil terminals that have been taken over by coalition forces.


A U.S. Marine lights up a cigarette for a wounded Iraqi who appeared to be a Republican Guard soldier, as others Marines search around a bus shot earlier on the key road in Qat'at Sukkar in central Iraq, March 27, 2003. Marines treated enemy wounded on Thursday and searched the blood-stained luggage of Iraqis killed inside a bus by a storm of bullets from advancing armored units. Reporters counted four corpses outside the bus and marines said another 16 lay inside. All the bodies were adult men, wearing a mixture of civilian and military clothing and had papers that appeared to identify them as Iraqi Republican Guard.

Instead of killing them with ammo...they light cigarettes for them.


British light infantry and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment members distribute humanitarian aid packages in Zubayr near Basra in southern Iraq, March 27, 2003. U.S. and UK troops fighting their way north towards Baghdad have found evidence that Iraqi troops are prepared to use weapons of mass destruction, Britain's Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said on Thursday.


U.S. Marines from CSSB 10 field hospital carry a wounded Iraqi prisoner of war, who was shot following yesterday's Iraqi attack on the military convoys on the road, some 150 km 90 miles) north of the town of Nassiriya, March 27, 2003. U.S. Marines fought bloody skirmishes as their surge north towards Baghdad came under sporadic Iraqi attack. U.S. artillery fired back, allowing the Marines to get through Shatra after a two-hour delay and reach Qal'at Sukkar, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Nassiriya.


Young Iraqi's welcome British troops from 42 Commando as they go on patrol in the southern Iraqi town of Um Qa-eel, 35km south of Basra, March 27, 2003. U.S. President George W. Bush vowed on Thursday to press on with the war in Iraq (news - web sites) for 'however long it takes' to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power.

[TigersEye]

It takes a few minutes to load but this is worth it. You won't see these images on our worthless television networks.
Love you, Thirty!

.30Carbine and I wish to extend our deepest thanks, admiration and prayers to all of the wonderful men and women who have willingly sacrificed so much to stand up for liberty and justice, for our nation and the world. We wish you much success on your mission and long and joyful lives!

.30Carbine & TigersEye

[hedgetrimmer]

Great pics. Thanks for posting.

[seams2me]

I'm guessing, the one with the modern communication devices and the arabic writing on the building is Iraq?

ROFL. Good illustration.

[Humidston]

You're the greatest, Dio. As usual, THANKS!

[lizma]

"Here you have captured the essence of Operation Iraqi Freedom:"

Exactly. Check out the smile on that soldier's face. It melts your heart.

[Humidston]

Hey! It looks like GW himself is assisting with the humanitarian aid!

Took the words out of my mouth, Joe! :)

[lizma]

Two things.

What audiovisual loop?

and Thank You So Much.

[happygrl]

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.

I Corinthians 13: 1-13

[happygrl]

May this child never know the terror of tyranny.

Truly Born Free.

Thank you all of the Coalition Forces.

May the Lord keep you safe in His Arms.

[happygrl]

Whoah !

[BossLady]

Every day I am amazed at the talent and big hearts of those on FreeRepublic. I thank all who contributed pics to this thread.

[happygrl]

Illbay also manages to insult somebody whenever he posts, and focusses on the negatives instead of the positives.

He's a curmudgeon, better ignored.

I notice that he did not respond to your point about those received decorations, or death, for their sevice in Viet Nam.

One of the posts on this thread points out that leadership sets the example; something the guys in Nam were woefully short on.

It's easy for those who didn't live throught those years and the trashing that our men in Nam received, to appreciate the loss of morale it generated.

Potshots are easy; soldiering is real work.

[Capitalism2003]

I love these posts

[rundy]

Dolphins can be PATRIOTS?
Oh, well, I guess if PETA says they can be "employed against their will" to hunt mines, that means they have a will, and so they can "choose" to be patriotic.

Indeed they can choose. They go out, do their job, and they ALWAYS COME BACK. If they didn't like it, they'd go AWOL!

[Illbay]

Don't you just love the Swastika?