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To: richardtavor
I believe there was a request that NO MILITARY INFORMATION BE POSTED, Dude. What part of that did you NOT understand?

LOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.
51 posted on 03/19/2003 1:12:36 PM PST by MattGarrett
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To: MattGarrett
Dude, this was on Drudge and on BBCWS radio already. I don't think it's a military secret...
58 posted on 03/19/2003 1:14:29 PM PST by Beck_isright (A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. - Gen. Patton)
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To: MattGarrett
Let's not get PARANOID about all this Loose Lips stuff, O.K.?
This is a published story.
It is NOT a leak of personally gleaned information.
There is a BIG difference.
Try to understand that.
If you can not understand it.
Perhaps you should log off and watch CNN.
76 posted on 03/19/2003 1:21:32 PM PST by Hanging Chad (not to be confused with "Hanging Ten" or "Hanging Wallpaper"...)
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To: MattGarrett
I believe there was a request that NO MILITARY INFORMATION BE POSTED, Dude. What part of that did you NOT understand?

You don't understand ANY of it, apparently; the original FR "Loose Lips" concept dealt with people PERSONALLY reporting info, like "I just saw X take off from X"

Personally, I've never seen any info even along THOSE lines on FR that ever would be remotely useful to an enemy, but it's not all that unreasonable a request.

Following your warped thinking we need to shut down FR for the next week, as I don't think you can stop people posting major media articles containing military information.

Nothing about reposting other already public stories. Once it's out there, it's out there, and I assure you that Iraq is watching BBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc. directly, not prowling FR to find what people watching the news are seeing.

LOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.

Err, it's "Loose" of course, and actually, they didn't; the "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS" campaign was basically a US Government propaganda move in 1942 to distract the public from the abject failure of the US Navy to defend against U-boat attacks along the East Coast; as it turned out, intelligence from ports played NO ROLE whatsoever in the German success. It was bumbling by the Navy, and a failure to order coastal communities to turn their lights off; they were afraid of "hurting tourism."

Unfortunately the whole "LOOSE LIPS" thing on FR has mutated into clueless busybodies making themselves feel self-righteous and important and feel like they're "doing something" by wandering around chastising people for reposting info from the media here.

84 posted on 03/19/2003 1:31:50 PM PST by John H K
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To: MattGarrett
i'd guess (conservatively, of course) that within 30 seconds of liftoff,
at least 100 rags were phoning home to the mideast with the news...

$0.02

97 posted on 03/19/2003 1:53:22 PM PST by tomkat
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