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FIERCE GUARD NO MATCH FOR ADVANCING GIS
New York Post ^
| 4/04/03
| JONATHAN FOREMAN
Posted on 04/04/2003 3:21:54 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:13:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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April 4, 2003 -- THE Army's 299th Engineers could smell the honeysuckle as they dodged bullets and ferried the infantry across the Euphrates to take on the entrenched Republican Guard. The Iraqis were holed up in bunkers and pink adobe cottages on the east side of the river, intent on keeping the U.S. from seizing control of a nearby bridge - just 12 miles from Baghdad.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: embeddedreport; iraqifreedom; roadtobaghdad; smallarmsfire; troopmovement
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posted on
04/04/2003 3:21:54 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
At this point, I would question the Iraqi military's ability to blow their nose.
To: EternalVigilance
All they can do is blow us up. And they just killed 3 more Americans with a car bomb. Yeah, how brave.
To: goldstategop
These guys can never get their advectives correct. Should read "effete republican guards no match for fierce elite GI's."
To: goldstategop
Proven again, the Iraqi soldiers were aside from murderers, also cowards who dropped their uniforms at the first indication of being overwhelmed. So mean to civilians, and so cowardly responding to enemy encounters.
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posted on
04/04/2003 6:43:41 AM PST
by
Hila
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