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To: section9
If the Iraqi Army begins to collapse within the next 48 hours, by God, the folks over at DU will have apoplexy.

I've been lurking. Pure schadenfreud. It's some of the funniest stuff I've ever read.

There will come, I suspect, a moment when somebody snaps a pic of a little kid in Baghdad with an American flag and a picture of Bush. Oh, to be able to post that there...

20 posted on 03/20/2003 6:00:58 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
You're so right about the schadenfreud - I've been lurking over there too. The anti-war crowd's assertions about how this would go are collapsing like the Iraqui army. No massive casualties, civilian or otherwise, and plans for the oil to be put in trust under the UN. Their disappointment that there won't be thousands of body bags arriving at Dover is almost palpable. You'd think they'd be happy about the way this is turning out, but no. I guess when your illusions implode its pretty painful. All that seething hate has to find an outlet somewhere.

I'm also revising my own war assumptions. Although I always thought that this war would be like shooting fish in a barrel, I didn't expect this anticlimatic walkover. There seem to be no fish to shoot! They're not using shock and awe because there's no need to. I hope we wake up tomorrow to the news that a surrender has been negotiated, and the war is over. It'll be the November elections all over again!

62 posted on 03/20/2003 6:37:29 PM PST by slane
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To: Billthedrill
I've been lurking. Pure schadenfreud. It's some of the funniest stuff I've ever read.

Did you see this thread? Death Toll - 03/20/03 (Day 1 GWII)

For casualties of this war{in Iraq}, they listed:

Marine Chopper Crash Kills 16 in Kuwait
Iraq says strikes killed one civilian

The International Red Cross said Thursday that at least one
person had died and 14 were wounded in the first day of war
in Iraq
The first fatality of the U.S.-led war in Iraq was
apparently a Jordanian taxi driver who stopped to make a
telephone call in an Iraqi building Thursday and was killed
in a U.S. missile strike.
One Dead, 13 Hurt in South Lebanon Blast -Sources
Farm Worker Killed, Others Injured in Zimbabwe
Five killed in tribal clash
QUETTA, March 19: Five tribesmen were killed and as many others injured in an armed clash between two rival groups of Kahri and Sawand tribes in Nasirabad district, on Wednesday evening.

Israeli driver shot dead in West Bank ambush
Taliban Kill 3 Afghan Gov't Soldiers

So on DU we list casualties of tribal warfare in Africa as the fault of the U.S. in Iraq???? LOL

95 posted on 03/20/2003 7:41:29 PM PST by Theophilus (Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam)
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