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To: redlipstick
"Women waved from balconies, girls threw flower petals at young Marines leaning across gun turrets. One woman held her baby aloft. Tank crews picked the flowers from the tops of their fighting machines, smelt them and grinned."

Al Jazeera, Apr. 9, 2003, as Marines rolled into Baghdad. Wow. Thank you for that post, kitten. Amazing.

2,545 posted on 04/09/2003 6:44:19 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("I'm not feeling a lot of love in here right now"- Brig. Gen. Brooks to press corp, CENTCOM, Apr. 9)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Now they're beating at the base of the statue with a sledgehammer.
2,562 posted on 04/09/2003 6:45:35 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Wow look how big that guy is swinging the hammer at the statue

Prairie he looks like a marine
2,569 posted on 04/09/2003 6:46:00 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (My dad, a WW2 vet, always said "America's best and most loyal ally is..Britain". He was right.)
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