***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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[11th_VA]

3RD INFANTRY UPDATE from KIFL

The officers said the tank unit fired two 120 mm high velocity depleted uranium rounds straight down the main road, creating a powerful vacuum that literally sucked guerrillas out from their hideaways into the street, where they were shot down by small arms fire or run over by the tanks.

[Green]

oh no..Rita Cosby coming up..now we get to hear about all her sources. I'm going to try to count how many times she says that

[Dog]

We have a freeper who writes.....his name is nicollo. One of his books was featured on the History Channel.....he wrote a novel on stretch limos..

Nic is almost done writing his next novel on William Taft.

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks for the info!!

I asked a hunky airforce guy for directions one day. He stared me down, and at the same time kindly gave me directions.

He was awesome and it kept a smile on my face for a long time. Whew, it's getting warm in here!! My heater must be malfunctioning.

[Catspaw]

Man.....this is the worse I have heard in BAG in a long while..

Dog, you don't mind a little rewrite, do you?

Man.....this is the BEST I have heard in BAG in a long while..

[Straight Vermonter]

Elephant_in _VT (aka Mrs Straight Vermonter) has had 2 books of poetry published and was a Vermont Poet Laureat nominee.

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[Cboldt]

The 1425 update of the sitrep map shows the Hammurabi and Medina divisions reduced to brigade strength.

Is that a new map, or the "291425Z" map? If the later, by my read, both Ham1 and Med2 have "xx" designations. This is unchanged from the 281536Z map (28 = day of month, 1536Z = 15:36 Zulu (GMT) time). The "xx" designation is Division strength.

[Cboldt]

B-52......I believe they can drop up to 70,000 lbs of bombs on a target....each bomber.

Three B-52's in formation can make a crater 50 feet deep, by 1 square mile. How many sorties since last week? You can bet somebody is in shock right about now.

[Dog]

Thumps off in the distance are now constant..

SV it looks like we are chewing up the RG. Is that a Corp up near that airfield we took the other day...???

[arasina]

Aren't (or weren't) Bill Kristol's parents members of the far, far left (Democratic Socialists or even Communists)? That's what I heard somewhere. Makes his point of view even more valuable to me, much like David Horowitz. They know how the enemy thinks.

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks to you and all the guys who filled in the info. Right now, I'm almost thinking that the RG is too far away from Baghdad and with our precision, we can bomb their rear and force them to us.

[Dog]

82nd Airborne just seized a airbase in South central Iraq.....its on Fox. No American casultities..

[Dog]

Easy now.... I like Rita.... I got this soft spot for bottle blondes...:-)

[Cboldt]

Right now, I'm almost thinking that the RG is too far away from Baghdad and with our precision, we can bomb their rear and force them to us.

I don't think it's as much force them to us as it is to keep them from retreating to Baghdad. We'd like them to be at 50% strength before we appraoch from the ground.

[Dog]

The fight for Ansar-al Salem base is about over....Kurds are mopping up now..

[Sacajaweau]

B-52: Interesting stats

The area of Iraq is 437,072 sq km.

Two B-52's, in two hours, can monitor 364,000 sq km of ocean surface.

[Cboldt]

82nd Airborne just seized a airbase in South central Iraq.....its on Fox. No American casultities..

Thanks Dog. I don't know which airbase. My notes say to ping condi2008 when the 82nd pops up!

[Howlin]

He's had a hard life, you know, being persecuted because he's black and a Muslim.

Rubbish.

[Green]

LOL...I don't dislike her..just annoys me that she always refers to "her" sources like no one else has any or that hers are exclusive to her.