MSG TO WORLD: Don't Mess with U.S. - B-1B bombs Iraqi radar sites

AP ^ | Fri Mar 14, 6:15 PM ET | ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer

[ErnBatavia]

My so bad.

Three demerits for using that term!

[BOBTHENAILER]

Check in to FR for your reality check and grip on the real world not what the Tribune

No kidding on the TRIB, fish wrap deluxe. Good food and drink here....awful news..glad I brought my lap top.

[mark_interrupted]

Actually Carter did kill it. Reagan resurrected it.

[Tallguy]

It doesn't matter we started the war about weeks ago.

We are running 500 to 800 sorties each day over Iraq. Our specops, the UKS and the Aussies are on the sands of Iraq.

The Marines are running people and equipment through the cut fence on the DMZ in Kuwait. We have had bases with the Turks in N. Iraq for about a year.

This is kinda like "boiling the frog". Saddam won't know he's "at war" until some Spec Ops trooper taps him on the shoulder with his M4 Carbine.

[Grampa Dave]

I think that when this is finally and officially over, your analogy of "boiling the frog" will be correct.

Except Saddam knows that his Frogs are being boiled, removed and surrendering. He is afraid to say anything as that would cause mass panic among his loyal troops.

A few weekends ago my wife and I heard about the 500+ sorties per day. Then, we found out that the day of the report there were 800 sorties. (about what we averaged in DSI after the first few days)

This war started in earnest in February this year if not in January.

Boiling the Frog is a perfect word picture.

[Robert_Paulson2]

lady liberty, without that heavy burqua like thing the French put on her...
yes, she is rather nice.

[PhilDragoo]

Saddam, enjoy these diplomtic measures courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.

[irish_lad]

I was at the air show last year at Offut AFB when a B1 flew overhead. After the loud noise of engines, the announcer said, "Folks, that's the sound of freedom." How true.

[DoorGunner]

B-1B
Probably the most beautiful aircraft ever to fly for U.S. forces.

Well, I can see what you mean, if considered from a strictly aesthetic point of view. OTOH, an otherwise ugly slick can look pretty good, if you are the last squad on the ground in a hot PZ.

Certainly, your Cobra is nice and sleek, and Hogs are good to have around; but, to four rotorheads, trying (pretending) to make a defendable perimeter around a bent huey, an inbound slick is the most beautiful aircraft there is.

DG

[HighRoadToChina]

BUMP!!!!

[jokar]

Actually Carter did kill it. Reagan resurrected it.

and "B-1 Bob" Dornan shepherded it to birth.

They are laughing out the other sides of their mouth now.