***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 3-LIVE THREAD***

FreeRepublic - Day 2 ^ | 212 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate/null and void

[null and void]

Good Morning.

This is the continuation Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1- LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

To all who helped this get started, thank you!

[eeman]

Except by the time your son is 15, Britney will be in her 30's and he will think she is a dinosaur. I sort of doubt that Britney's career will have that kind of longevity anyway

[ztiworoh]

Yeah I was at disney today and so many of the girls my age look so trashy (Im 17), I mean, I in no way find tattoos and peiercings to be attractive. Britney Spears and her ilk look like trailer trash to me; I'd rather have a girl who I can discuss intelligent topics with anf who has a vocablary that doesnt consist of the lyrics to Eminem's last CD. I feel very bad for my generation sometimes...

[TexKat]

Those B-52 better get there soon, I'm gonna have to put a diaper on soon! LOL!

You are good, I have changed my Depend numerous times. LOL

[gop212]

Musical guest...............

the DIXIE CHICKS!!!!

booooooooo!!!!!!

[killjoy]

I'd rather have a girl who I can discuss intelligent topics with anf who has a vocablary that doesnt consist of the lyrics to Eminem's last CD.

I just want to meet a girl with curable diseases....

[SoldiersGirl]

I feel badly for it as well. I want to snatch these girls off the street and tell them that less clothes is not sexy. More clothes, well tailored...sexy. Minus Belly Girl, I forgive her.
Hopefully they'll grow out of it...

[cajungirl]

Your name is horowitz backwards,,did you know that?

[Fledermaus]

You must be getting a different rerun, it's the Foo Fighters

[muslims=borg]

God Bless...my wife's doing the same with my five year old daughter. My son just drools over food right now.

[killjoy]

According to my remote musical guests is Foo Fighters.

[gop212]

sounds like a personal problem.

[section9]

I wonder if we aren't going to airlift 4AD into H3 and move the armor through Israel and Jordan, or make some other move to flank the RG and help 3ID and Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.

Would we really plan to take Baghdad with only two divisions?

Firstly, I have no idea what's going on out at H3. Nobody does. It's the big secret of the war. I believe that C-17's, C-5's, and C-141's are all flying in there like gangbusters. Now there's a highway that runs directly from H-3 to Baghdad. If you could fly in an armored brigade, just a brigade, then we'd have a modestly sized, but effective, little armored group to attack Baghdad from the West.

However, how are we supposed to fly in a brigade, much less a battalion, with the lift that we have? I don't think so. UNLESS, we have been smuggling stuff into Jordan and King Abdullah (having sealed off the border area on the second day of the war) will now allow what we have in East Jordan to motor on up to H3. So when Son of Plucky Little King unseals the border area, voila, no Americans save the Patriot Crews.

An armored brigade could pop out of nowhere. That's what I think H3 is all about. Either that or a Special Forces staging area, but H3 is too big an airport (as big as Hartsfield Int'l) just to stage SF.

Finally, no, we're not going to take Baghdad with two divisions. We will take it with four divisions. And I'm convinced that if we wipe out the Guard units south and southwest of Baghdad, the road might be open to walk right on in to the city. It depends on the psychology of the defenders.

This may be like the Germans walking into Paris in 1940.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Dianna]

Did y'all cover the dem response to Bushes radio address today? Anyone know approx what time that was?

[ztiworoh]

What a coincidence??

But yes, my name is Nick Horowitz

No relation to David Horowitz, though I love his writing

[buwaya]

Probably three divisions to take Baghdad-

3 ID
101st
1 Marine

1 Marine was supposed to disengage from Basra and displace north via Nasiriya according to one report.

4 ID is probably at least 10 days behind. Maybe it won't be relevant to the Baghdad action.

Other forces are probably available to hold down the rest of Iraq -

A brigade of the 82nd Airborne, was in Kuwait, but not heard from for a while.
a couple of National Guard brigades (deployed, but not heard from yet)
172 Airborne brigade from Italy, whereabouts still unknown
2 Marine division, which will possibly take control of the other Marine forces in Kuwait/Iraq. There are too many Marine units deployed, I think, for only one divisional HQ.

And the British of course.

[Queen of Excelsior]

I must be on the wrong thread. No war news here.

[Extremist]

Depending on what's in the red one, a mix-up becomes more and more possible as time goes by. And if whats in the red cup is a tequila sun-rise, they'll be hell to pay.

[Fledermaus]

oh, I never looked...thought it said "zitwhore"