Operation Phantom Fury Live Thread

msnbc, cnn, various ^ | epluribus_2

[epluribus_2]

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 4,000 U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way into northeastern Fallujah on Monday, kicking off a massive assault dubbed Operation Phantom Fury that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the Sunni Muslim city.

The prelude to the assault on the Askari neighborhood was a crushing air and artillery bombardment of the city that rose to a crescendo by Monday evening, with U.S. strike jets dropping bombs around the clock and big guns pounding the city every few minutes with high-explosive shells.

Meanwhile, insurgents in Baghdad and nearby Ramadi tried to keep up the pressure on the coalition forces with new attacks, including one on a Catholic church in the capital.

Earlier Monday U.S. troops had fought their way into the city's western outskirts, seizing two bridges over the Euphrates River and helping Iraqi soldiers take the city's main hospital in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.

[King Prout]

Wee need the following:
SatNet: 24 hours a day, multiple selectable feeds, realtime satellite images of the world
MilNet: 24 hours a day, nothing but the US military.

[ohioWfan]

The President asked Rumsfeld and Powell NOT to get involved in campaign.

PURE CLASS, MR. PRESIDENT!

[golas1964]

Algore is really going to run against Hillary? Are you kidding me? Oh, pass the popcorn!...

Press Conference over....

[TalonDJ]

oooooo Rummy said there are a few things he would have liked to said during the campaign... big laugh from that hehehe.
Apparently he and Powell were instructed to stay out of the campain.

[BigSkyFreeper]

yeah, especially one very ugly lady with a five-oclock shadow and a quavering, Jordanian accent.

You leave Suha Arafat out of this! ;P LOL

[MEG33]

I don't believe we could have agreed to do the assault otherwise..

[TalonDJ]

I am sitting here happily imagining what Rummy would have said during the campaign hehehehhehe

[Ironfocus]

Yep, looks awesome. Now of only they will do something about replacing those 9mm's too. At least the Marines still carry .45's.

[JLS]

I want Kerry to run again too.

I am on the JEB/Kay Bailey Hutchinson bandwagon for the GOP to battle whomever emerges for the Dims.

[TexKat]

OH MY! Fox just broke for BREAKING NEWS ABOUT SCOTT PETERSON!!!!!!!!

Can they convict and sentence at the same time. If so send his a$$ to Fallujah rat now with no weapon, no armor, not protective gear whatsoever.

[King Prout]

hehhehheh

[ChadGore]

MilNet: 24 hours a day, nothing but the US military.

I agree. Accurate iformation is imparitive in modern warfair and, it's imparitive the Military use all the best technologies to diseminate that information.

Now that our Military is active around the globe, and the link between the people and it's military is so important, now is the time for this.

[TalonDJ]

Some Marines carry .45s. I have a picture on my desk of a Marine in Afghanistan wearing a 9mm.

[ChadGore]

Unless Scott Peterson has an AK and RPG in the rural area of Faluja . . SCREW HIM !

[TexKat]

The President asked Rumsfeld and Powell NOT to get involved in campaign.

Thats good.

[DollyCali]

fortunately we are the party of campaigning FOR a candidate.. which means I have a little break (I hope) - I am still in a celebratory mood over the re-election. I will still go to two headquarters a few times a month to help out in various ways.. But right now here at DollyCali's home it is Operation Shovel Out.

[mystery-ak]

My hubby carried a 9mm while in Iraq.....plus his M16...LOL

[hoyaloya]

Not that I don't agree with your premise . . . but from reading this thread . . . there doesn't appear to have been anything worth "reporting" on in Fallujah. Since I'm office bound, I don't know what CNN's coverage is saying -- but since no one here is posting anything about it, that must mean they're just rambling about . . . with no new information.

[TalonDJ]

I would like to see that network cover other militaries also... but I would want some of the staff to BE active duty US military. The military embedded in the media not the other way around.

[Ironfocus]

Could very well be. I just read an article on the weekend about the company making .45's for the Marines, and it seemed from that that the .45 was an official sidearm.