CNN REPORTING 7 POWS FOUND ALIVE!! CENTCOM CONFIRMS

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[looney tune]

Being reported on CNN - 6 POWs - found alive. No more information.

[BubbaJunebug]

I'm sure Jesse Jackson will take credit

[djf]

Shoshana Johnson is safe and sound. Let us pray and hope for all others in distress, including Iraquis.

[Jemian]

If you don't believe me, take a ninth grade biology class.

Ninth grade? I teach it in my sixth grade science class. At that age, the kids are too embarassed to ask any questions. We go through that unit very fast!

[SamAdams76]

Wow! Great news to wake up to. When is the next CENTCOM press briefing scheduled?

[woofer]

Fine. If you want to live in a world where women are on top of men, so be it.

Women on top? Woo-Hoo!

Can't believe you'd be against that.

[OldFriend]

I agree.....nothing from CNN is worth hearing. The information they have has been gathered with the blood of innocent people.

[kattracks]

Seven Missing U.S. Troops Found Healthy

By NICOLE WINFIELD
.c The Associated Press

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - U.S. Marines have found seven missing U.S. troops on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit and they appear to be healthy, Gen. Tommy Franks said Sunday.

An Iraqi tipped off the Marines who were near Samarra and were closing in on Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, that they would shortly ``come in contact with a number of Americans,'' Franks told Fox News

``I believe our guys picked them up on the road,'' he said.

``I know they're in good shape and I know they're in our hands and under our control now,'' he told CNN.

Franks said he had been reluctant to release the information because he was unsure whether the group was among five listed as missing or seven listed as POWs.

Franks originally said six were found. Central Command later that seven American servicemen were safe.

Pentagon officials have committed to tracking down 12 soldiers still missing or captured since the spectacular rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch on April 1, but until Franks' revelation, there appeared to be no leads.

Franks said he was reluctant to discuss the matter further until he had better information - but he made sure to underscore once again his commitment to rescuing coalition captives.

``For sure we're going to take care of our own,'' he told CNN. ``This is very good news.''

Officials had been sounding an upbeat note in recent days, saying more people were willing to talk and share secrets about potential POW sightings now that Saddam Hussein's henchmen are gone.

``What we're finding now is that the regime has been moved away, people will speak about what it is they know,'' U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks at U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar said Saturday during a briefing. ``And so, we suspect that much of the information that will assist us either in finding prisoners of war from this conflict or previous conflicts ... will come by way of the elimination of the regime.''

Lynch, who was rescued April 1 from a hospital in the southern city of Nasiriyah after an Iraqi civilian tipped soldiers off, became the first POW to return home Saturday.

The United States lists five other soldiers as missing and seven as prisoners of war.



04/13/03 08:26 EDT

[OldFriend]

The Daschle, Pelosi, Kennedy wing of the democrat party is NOT happy that these troops have been rescued. Do you dispute that?

[djf]

I get tired of hearing there's no difference between man and woman.

That's the same as saying there's no difference between a heterosexual man and a gay man.

People are blinded.

[lainde]

Wonderful news...Their faces have been etched on my heart! What a wonderful Palm Sunday morning!

[alisasny]

I am happy that the debate about women in the front lines is being re-opened.

[djf]

I aint.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Your exclusion of women from fighting is a form of political correctness.

They didn't talk with the retired Ohio school teacher I spoke with several weeks before the war started. She enlisted in the USMC on December 8, 1941 and was told she was going to be a jeep mechanic. She explained to the Corps that she didn't even drive a car. They asked what she did, she told them she was a school teacher so they told her "You'll teach other Marines how to be jeep mechanics." She spent her time as a Marine on a group of islands in the Pacific, working on jeeps.

Then she won my heart - she asked me "You know what I think we need to do over there? We need to go over there and kick his ass, and if they'd let me back in, I'd be the first off the boat to do it."

[aruanan]

So what happened to the seventh one?

[Eye4nEye]

"I don't like the idea of women being killed in battle, and I'd rather they not fight myself. But when they insist, and when they meet standards, and when their units accept them, I think we should count ourselves lucky that fight they will"

Whose standards? Whenever they meet the same standards as the men they are fighting with, then I will accept that they belong there.

[usmcobra]

Nobody has ever said there is no difference between men and women. we all understand the differences but say they are not the hinderances some see them as.

[TomB]

Your (attempt at humor) is lost on this thread. There is nothing funy about this story to those who have loved ones in theater.

For making fun of Daschle?

For most people this is a HAPPY thread, our POWs were found alive. That may not be a reason for you to be happy, but it is for the rest of us.

[Bluntpoint]

"That's the same as saying there's no difference between a heterosexual man and a gay man."

The big difference: Gay men know the back of the head of their lovers better than straight men.

[TomB]

I'm only comparing demeanors.

;-)

Note that they are both wearing purple.

[djf]

If there is debate, it's all my fault.

What I am saying is this:
Women bear children, and are therefore closer to children.
Men are stonger, and physically more capable, and are better hunters and providers.

Read "The Dissappearance" by Phyllip Wylie.