***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 14 - LIVE THREAD***

[Quilla]

Thanks ken. The negative (we're losing) reports from the left just get my dander up and FR certainly helps allay my fears. Appreciate your calming response.

[carton253]

Thank you very much...

[Cboldt]

So we are looking at maybe two full strength RG divisions left....maybe 3..

They had varying capabilities to begin with. The Medina Division was believed to be much stronger than any of the others. ALL of them have been getting the snot pounded out of them. They are tired, confused, dazed, etc. It's just a matter of time.

[CasearianDaoist]

In the whole country or just in the Baghdad front?

[DollyCali]

Thaks RK.. what a story.

[Howlin]

The really neato thing is that WE can get more troops; they can't.

[ninenot]

Great story.

FWIW, MacArthur was also quite close to Vince Lombardi. Talk about 'fight or die' guys....

[Northern Yankee]

Thank you!

I am touched by your story.

My father was a pilot during WW2. He flew B-29's out of Guam, and literally was one of the last pilots to return from a mission at the end of the war. (He lost an engine coming back from a bombing mission, landed at Iwo Jima, and then came back the day after Japan announced it's surrender in 1945.)

My great Uncle served under MacArthur in the Pacific as a Catholic Chaplain in the Far East.

I am touched by your son's committment, and autograph.

May God speed your family, and all those who are serving, and those in harm's way.

God Bless!

[johnb838]

Belly Girl is a pin-up in a respectful and non-pornographic way, like the classic dames of yesteryear. Harlow, Monroe, etc.

[Sacajaweau]

He doesn't appear well shaven and brings back brital memories of nursing brush burns for a week. I nominate the other soldier, facing west, on a hill or something.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Marines Find Signs of Hasty Iraqi Retreat ^

[Poser]

"Campbell Brown on MSNBC whining that Bush hasn't answered questions in almost a week."

I seem to remember a whole year with one press conference from Clintoon.

[Wyatt's Torch]

We're toppling Hitler ... and it's 1936. The world can thank us later.

Ahhh, but here's the leftists rub: Would they have ever know what would have been prevented? They would have been bitching about us being interventionist is European affairs.

[Howlin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/weekday-report?r=s

[Consort]

Can't celebrate...

"Bier" was just a pun.

[Quilla]

Impact may be an understatement. :)

Every afternoon when my chillen arrive home from school and I from work, they always ask for a war update. As I woke them this morning (usually a long, drawn out process) I mentioned that Gen. Brooks was about to show a video of Jessica's rescue. Both of them shot up in bed and switched their tv's to FOX. It was amazing.

[Warren_Piece]

Or:

Question Saddam's Authority

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Hate is a Ba'ath Party Family Value.

Uh huh...and that would be the Ba'ath Socialist Party...according to Tony Snow, though I haven't heard another reporter call them by their real name, the Ba'ath Socialist Party, have you?

B.S. Party for short?

[An.American.Expatriate]

[entering lurk mode]

I'll keep checking in for a while. And I will not oversleep tomorrow!!

If anyone needs to contact me (Belly Man, etc..) Freepmail me - I won't have a chance to catch up in the morning....

[Dog]

2 maybe 3 RG divisions are position south of BAG..

There are regular Iraqi army divisions still in Iraq.......but they can't stand up to a two corp attack...