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| 5 APR 03
| An.American.Expatriate
Posted on 04/04/2003 9:04:16 PM PST by null and void
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To: fiesti
FNC just showed the Friday video of Saddam again. He's got quite a beer gut on him!
To: golas1964
Everyone known the 'special sources' is really thousand Island dressing.
4,062
posted on
04/05/2003 5:49:39 PM PST
by
Warren_Piece
(America is an optimistic country because that's where all the optimists went.)
To: golas1964
Has Special Sauce
Has Special Source
To: dogbyte12; Warren_Piece
LMAO!!
To: cyncooper
MSNBC...just took one of President Bush's ... speeches and had excerpts ..., alternating the president's image with war images and moving music. Theme: A tribute to the bravery of our men and women. It ... ended focusing on a patch that said "God Bless America".This explains what happened to the Bag-cams. The world just stopped turning and the cams fell off the roof.
4,065
posted on
04/05/2003 5:51:29 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(The Democrats or soooo 9/10)
To: GreyWolf
You think the Iraqis are up to something? You don't think Special Forces may be at work?
To: dogbyte12
does anyone have the post # for the jessica article link from earlier today?
4,067
posted on
04/05/2003 5:52:10 PM PST
by
melodie
(I want my Bag Teee Veeee.....)
To: ztiworoh
"Exclusive Video" AgainNext time we capture an Iraqi general make him watch Fox for 8 hours. He'll be telling us anything we want to hear by the 500th running.
4,068
posted on
04/05/2003 5:52:21 PM PST
by
GreyWolf
(You don't have to be a Boy Scout to Be Prepared!)
To: dogbyte12
I don't know about Rita's special sources, but I am darn sure she has been eating way too much special sauce.
4,069
posted on
04/05/2003 5:52:22 PM PST
by
Miss Marple
(Still grumpy about her error in the Supreme Court decision in 2000.)
To: All
4,070
posted on
04/05/2003 5:53:27 PM PST
by
Nefertiti
('Common Sense' is self-contradictory phrase. 'Sense' is never common....)
To: Miss Marple
i believe she is preggers
4,071
posted on
04/05/2003 5:53:47 PM PST
by
melodie
(I want my Bag Teee Veeee.....)
To: melodie
Lynch's family
going to Germany
More details emerging
about soldier's rescue
From staff, wire reports
Saturday April 05, 2003; 09:47 AM
Family members of Pfc. Jessica Lynch were planning to leave for Germany today for a reunion with the 19-year-old Wirt County native who was rescued from an Iraqi hospital, several officials said.
As the family was preparing to leave, a military briefing at Central Command in Qatar released more details about her rescue, telling how she at first hid under a sheet and then was relieved to see U.S. Special Operations forces had come to her aid.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller had expedited passports for the Lynch family and had them at his Washington, D.C., home, said Rockefeller spokesman Mark Ferrell. The Senator planned to meet the Lynch family at Dulles Airport to provide the passports, Ferrell said.
Lynch family members planned to attend a press conference this afternoon at the state hangar at Charleston's Yeager Airport before starting their trip overseas, said Randy Coleman, a spokesman for the state Division of Military Affairs and Public Safety.
The Lynches were planning to travel to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where Jessica Lynch was being treated for her injuries.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally intervened to get the Lynches to Germany after Rockefeller, who is the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, brought up the issue during a closed-door briefing.
Rumsfeld followed up, calling Rockefeller a couple of times himself with updates and to make sure everything was happening properly.
Meanwhile, today, military officials provided more details about Lynch's rescue.
Frightened and seriously wounded, she at first hid under a sheet when a team of U.S. military commandos stormed into her hospital room, officials said today.
"Jessica Lynch,'' called out an American soldier, approaching her bed. "We are United States soldiers, and we're here to protect you and take you home.''
Peering from behind the sheet as he removed his helmet, she looked up and said, "I'm an American soldier, too.''
In the first details released about the daring rescue of Lynch, a Central Command spokesman told a briefing today that a team of Navy Seals, Marine commandos, Air Force pilots and Army Rangers worked with U.S. Special Forces in the rescue Tuesday in Nasiriyah.
While troops engaged the Iraqis in another part of the city, the team persuaded an Iraqi doctor to lead them to Lynch, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Gene Reunart.
Lynch, now recuperating at the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, had suffered a head wound and fractures in her right arm, both legs, her right foot and ankle, and an injury to her spine. The rescue team quickly evaluated her medical condition, secured her to a stretcher and carried her to a waiting helicopter, Reunart said.
"Jessica held up her hand and grabbed the Ranger doctor's hand, and held onto it for the entire time, and said, Please don't let anybody leave me,''' Reunart said. "It was clear she knew where she was and didn't want to be left anywhere near the enemy.''
Meanwhile, the Iraqi doctor told the team there were remains of other U.S. forces nearby, and they were led to a burial site. Because they had not brought shovels, Reunart said, the team dug up the bodies with their hands.
"They wanted to do that very rapidly, so they could race the sun and be off the site before the sun came up,'' Reunart said. "It's a great testament to the will and desire of coalition forces to bring their own home.''
Reunart did not shed any new light on how Lynch sustained her wounds -- whether she was injured in captivity or when the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed March 23 when they made a wrong turn in Nasiriyah.
Eight of the dead soldiers found during the rescue were members of the ambushed unit, Reunart said. The ninth was a soldier from a forward support group of the Army's Third Infantry Division, he said. All have been transported back to the United States.
Lynch's family in West Virginia said doctors had determined she'd been shot. They found two entry and exit wounds "consistent with low-velocity, small-caliber rounds,'' said her mother, Deadra Lynch.
She had a back operation Thursday and surgery for other broken bones Friday, said the commander of the hospital, Col. David Rubenstein. A friend is at her bedside and although she's still being fed intravenously, she's drawn up a list of her favorite foods for the hospital: turkey, steamed carrots and applesauce.
"Her emotional state is extremely good. She's jovial. She's talking with staff,'' Rubenstein said.
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To: A. Morgan
thanks
4,073
posted on
04/05/2003 5:54:48 PM PST
by
melodie
(I want my Bag Teee Veeee.....)
To: dogbyte12
Rita Cosby bugs me.
I been here for mostly 13 hours.
Tonight is time change.
I said something stupid...
1st Cav Div. is Blackhorse...
7th Cav Rgt. is Garry Owen.
My credibility is ruined.
I'm tired.
And I can't think of any good "he's dead Jim" jokes.
AND BAGCAM IS OFF THE AIR!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
4,074
posted on
04/05/2003 5:55:40 PM PST
by
aloysius89
(fascite magnopere aut iti domun)
To: GreyWolf
Could be worse, they could run Christy Lane ads AND the 'exclusive video'!(over and over and over...)
To: fiesti
> bound to be the title of the movie they make about her...and yes chilling words of a true American soldier
Yes, but "I am an American Soldier Too" will be a made-for-TV movie with the sub-title ": The Jessica Lynch Story". And it will be turned into a politically correct obstacles-women-face-in-the-military polemic for the first 3/4 of it. All the men will be a bunch of male chauvinists, except the leader of the rescue squad. (All the others in the rescue will just be extras.) And the leads will be played by outsoken Hollywood peace activists.
To: golas1964
Today's video of Saddam with his spawn is clearly an old video. The haggared looking guy with the thick glasses and the incredible bags under his eyes is Saddam. A double would look better.
4,077
posted on
04/05/2003 5:57:01 PM PST
by
Poser
To: Miss Marple
I don't know about Rita's special sources, but I am darn sure she has been eating way too much special sauce.
Yep, and said special sauce has caused her voice to to grate on my last nerve.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
This time round, in an unspeakable act of barbarism, children had their throats slit. Sorry I couldn't respond before now; I had to share the computer (again) : ) I definitely take this to mean that children have been murdered like this to force their young brothers/fathers to fight against the allies.
To: All
This guy on Fox is the type of Muslim that there should be more of, I agreed with most of what he said, about the Wahabbis being the problem in the islamic world, and about the people looking at their own governments not the US as the source of their problems
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