***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 10 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 29 Mar 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

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Good Morning.

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[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - ANOTHER huge explosion hits Baghdad in the past few moments. One of several waves to hig Baghdad the past 8 hours.

[Green]

well supposedly this "sucker" (LOL) missile is also Chinese. The report from Fox just a few minutes ago was from a reporter on site a the mall and he said coalition forces had identified the missile and then they said not a silkworm but this sucker thing.

[Tree of Liberty]

Ah, beat me to the post button that time

[snooker]

... it is a Chinese seersucker missle ...

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/c-201.htm

snooker

[dogbyte12]

Even if it was true, why in the hell would our people announce to Iraq, that our forces were going to camp in place pretty much for near a week.

Reporters are the world's greatest idiots.

[Tree of Liberty]

Yeah, I heard that. Makes me think that this was part of the original plan.

[hobson]

Yeah, a 4 to 6 day pause on the ground but look out for the air!!! 24/7 ??? hmmmmm.

[Cate]

With the harbor opened up in the south, it would be interesting to see just how many ships we have waiting to unload. They made a big deal about the humanitarian supplies, but I am sure the other ships were off limits to cameras. I have visions of tons of stuff being shipped to the front from the south.

[Capt_Hank]

Do you remember the layer of grease on the Ham & Lima Beans C-Rations. I still shutter thinking about it. And the smell....... Good grief!

[merrin]

Making someone scared doesn't win a war.

Making someone scared may mean that you don't have to fight a war at all. You will note that I said that one purpose was to scare our other enemies.

I want Bashar Assad--just for example--to soil his trousers at the mention of the United States of America.

[Pro-Bush]

Dang..That thing is pretty big. Not launched off a rubber boat.

[snooker]

>>>why in the hell would our people announce to Iraq,

I am confused aren't you? I will bet Iraq isn't confused though.

hahahah hehehe

snooker

[dogbyte12]

Post 173??????

[Mr.Crimson]

Finally....Once in what, 50?

[Henchster]

"Fox - CentCom not confirming the 4-6 day ground halt, yet. So far, only Reuters has independent confirmation on this. Everyone else is siteing them."

"I love it when Rummy tells the press that they really don't know whatever it is they think they know."

Can I be the first to say it? OK, I will....

MAYBE Rummy knows that the Iraqi leaders (notice I didn't say Saddam) have no intel, and have been using the U.S. media for info, and...well, you get the idea..DISINFORMATION!

[Grenada]

FNC, the are not confirming "pause" , The air campaign will continue and the Pentagon won't confirm time.

[dogbyte12]

YES!!!! I GOT 173. In your faces!

[nicmarlo]

I think it was all in the plan from day one. Talk up Chacanaw and then hit them with surgical strikes. Let them sit in Baghdad and make jokes about how little we got.

Yeah....here's a thought:

Like you said, a set up from the start. How better to get your enemy to make mistakes than have them feel OVER CONFIDENT? And these people have nothing but that. It wouldn't take much for the US/Brits to sucker them into thinking they "can't even take enough food and water with them....what stupid infidels."

[spectr17]

We did find ONE use for them rock hard fruit nut rolls. They came in handy as aircraft wheel chocks or an impromptu street hockey puck.

Then there was the John Wayne chocolate candy bar.

[nwpatriot]

I was in the Army in the early-mid 80's when they first introduced MRE's. I was in the last class of trainees to actually eat C-rations. (for some sick reason, I actually LIKED them..) I'd like to try some of the new MRE's to see what the difference is.

(The one thing I rememebr about the first batch of MRE's was the Chicken ala King. That crapola coulda been used as a bioweapon.)