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Posted on 02/09/2003 6:54:26 PM PST by MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
Simply put, blow the Sierra out of those hand and arm things, please. It may not topple Saddam. It may not stop some T-72 tank from moving to the front, but it will certainly teach the Iraqis that nothing is safe, nothing is off limits. Outstanding! I hope that human chain of debris from the anti-American movement forms right around the monument minutes before!
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posted on
02/09/2003 6:59:30 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: MindBender26
BUMP for targeting purposes.
To: MindBender26
And don't forget all those "presidential palaces", including the one with the glass floors ..... that should explode real good!
To: PhiKapMom
I was kind of hoping that once Saddam falls, we might see video of these statues with spray paint and missing limbs all over them. But bombing the hell out of them works for me as well.
To: MindBender26
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:06:29 PM PST
by
eabinga
To: ConservativeMan55
Either way works for me! I remember that bomb that took out the bridge right after the truck -- I would love to see the videos of the bombs taking out the statues! Precision guided right at the statue!
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:06:59 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: eabinga
33°18'20"N 44°22'56"E
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:07:26 PM PST
by
eabinga
To: MindBender26
Two thumbs up for an excellent idea!
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:11:32 PM PST
by
PsyOp
To: PhiKapMom
I'm thinking the Iraqi people are going to want to drag this scumbag Saddam through the streets....as long as we don't have to see his naked ass I think we will be ok.
To: PhiKapMom
I agree with the wishes for anti-American crowd. Those people are making me and alot of other people VERY angry.
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:18:44 PM PST
by
Letitring
(UN-NO votes-NO money.)
To: MindBender26
If we don't level the whole country in the process of removing Saddam, the people of Iraq will make a $h!tload of money off of tourism.
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:18:54 PM PST
by
July 4th
To: ConservativeMan55
ROFLOL!!! The pictures of him swimming are bad enough! YUCK!
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:22:47 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: Letitring
Just get livid at these Anti-American types that go around wanting us to lose this war or be appeasers! Seems 9/11 meant nothing to them!
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:23:39 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: eabinga
If protected......
Gee, I'm sorry. Please bring one of the larger parts of the late Mr. Saddam here so I can apologize to it.
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:27:19 PM PST
by
MindBender26
(.....and for more news as it happens...stay tuned to your local FReeper station....)
To: MindBender26
I say add this to the target list also.
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:29:38 PM PST
by
finnman69
(!)
To: PhiKapMom
To: MindBender26
![](http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/hands-of-victory-dg5_s.jpg)
BOMBS AWAY!
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posted on
02/09/2003 7:31:42 PM PST
by
finnman69
(!)
To: MindBender26
From
GlobalSecurity.org - Baghdad Monuments:
Hands of Victory
To celebrate his "victory" over Iran, Saddam decided to build a Triumphal Arch. The concept of a triumphal arch is a European import, without precedent in the Middle East since Roman times.
The colossal Hands of Victory monument has dominated Baghdad's skyline since the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Built in duplicate, it marks the entrances to a large new parade ground in central Baghdad, towering 140 feet above the highway. The triumphal arch is shaped as two pairs of crossed swords, made from the guns of dead Iraqi soldiers that were melted and recast as the 24-ton blades of the swords. Captured Iranian helmets are in a net held between the swords. And surrounding the base of the arms are another 5,000 Iranian helmets taken from the battle field. The fists that hold the swords aloft are replicas of Saddam Husseins own hands. The German company that built the monument, H+H Metalform, said it was given a photograph of Saddam's own forearms to use as a model.
When Saddam inaugurated these triumphal arches, he rode under them on a white horse an allusion to the steed of Hussein, the Shi'ite Muslim hero martyred at nearby Kerbala. The day before the first bombing run on Bhagdad during the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi TV showed a mass of Iraqi soldiers marching beneath the huge crossed swords of the Victory Arch, to the theme music from 'Star Wars'. In April 1998 Iraq's "volunteer army" paraded for six hours in Baghdad's "Grand Festivities Square," the large outdoor arena marked by the two sets of enormous crossed swords.
To: MindBender26
I, too, was wondering about the status of the monument under the Hague conventions. However, isn't it a monument to the men lost in the Iran-Iraq war, rather than just a monument to Saddam, himself?
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