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CNN reports that Iraqi column of vehicles leaving Basra have been mostly destroyed.
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Posted on 03/26/2003 11:57:31 AM PST by jacksonstate

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cas; dontmesswithtexas; highwayofdeath; turkeyshoot
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To: Enterprise
I hope Ritter was directing traffic at the time.

That traitorous POS.
61 posted on 03/26/2003 12:09:34 PM PST by Yankee
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To: jacksonstate
Who the bloody hell did they think they were playing with, I wonder?

Regards, Ivan

62 posted on 03/26/2003 12:09:40 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: jacksonstate
As Gomer Pyle would have said....Surprise...Surprise...Surprise!!!


63 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:01 PM PST by all4one
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To: Southack
Fox News: "A convoy of Iraqi armor was spotted racing away from Basra at Noon today, followed by fist fights among allied fighter pilots for who got the right to kill all of the easy targets..."

LOL!

64 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:19 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government.)
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To: wideawake
But then they should have gone north out of Basra, and apparently they went south.
65 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:37 PM PST by aristeides
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To: Badabing Badaboom
Why did they commit suicide? Maybe the Iraqis are poor tacticians but nobody's that dumb. What on earth is going on? This seems way too easy. Is it some kind of trap?

As I noted on an earlier thread when the battle began:

The die-hards are the Baathist Party loyalists that have terrorized their fellow Iraqis for so long. Their choices are to die by the mob or die in battle. They have chosen the latter.

66 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:39 PM PST by Polybius
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
I too, wonder why they would expose themselves so easily as sitting ducks. Saddam may be crazy, but he isn't stupid.

Sometimes being dead, or critically injured, can impair your judgment.

67 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:45 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Southack
LOL!
68 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:53 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
see my post 56. what do you think?
69 posted on 03/26/2003 12:10:55 PM PST by wideawake (Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Yankee
Did you see the thread on Ritter, where he said we would lose this war??!? LOL!
70 posted on 03/26/2003 12:11:05 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government.)
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To: gulfcoast6
I heard that the Marines use a play on words, and call him... "So damn Insane, So damn Insane." Instead of Saddam Hussein.
71 posted on 03/26/2003 12:11:07 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Lurking since 2000.)
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To: MadIvan
Who the bloody hell did they think they were playing with, I wonder?

Regards Three Cheers, Ivan

72 posted on 03/26/2003 12:11:50 PM PST by Cagey
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To: Polybius
Three very large explosions just now in Bahgdad...
73 posted on 03/26/2003 12:11:54 PM PST by maxamillion
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To: Badabing Badaboom
They must have believed the baloney coming over Iraqi TV about how Allied forces are being defeated all over Iraq. They figured if they any encountered allied forces they would crush the invaders.
74 posted on 03/26/2003 12:11:56 PM PST by lasereye
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
You cannot trust CNN..too liberal. What does FOX NEWS say??
75 posted on 03/26/2003 12:12:04 PM PST by Gopher Broke (Peace through superior firepower)
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To: camle
Our boys have been alomst non-stop combat for two days now and must be in dire need of a breather.

For some of them, that seems to be very true. But it also seems like some units have barely been engaged at all. I imagine that different regiments/battalions are taking the lead at various times, so it shouldn't be too bad yet.

But you make a very valid point. Troops do need a breather. I expect they may get it when they get to Baghdad and sit for a few days.

76 posted on 03/26/2003 12:12:23 PM PST by XJarhead
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To: johniegrad
Nothing is as it seems in Iraq.

Saddamn's (sic) soldiers wear civilian clothes and American uniforms.

Who knows, maybe these idiots were not troops at all, but real civilians forced by the peaceful Iraqi "soldiers" to drive down their road of doom and leave the town filled with murderous minions who will pretend to be civilians.

I think we should just bomb 'em all and not take any chances. Anyone else remember the "innocent" women and children who made up the Viet Cong?

77 posted on 03/26/2003 12:12:30 PM PST by womanvet
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To: Gopher Broke
Heard that thirty trucks were destroyed, but I have children that are screaming for cartoons, so I am not a reliable source, at the moment. Sorry!
78 posted on 03/26/2003 12:13:15 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Lurking since 2000.)
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To: AD from SpringBay
This has to represent the most ferocious fighting-setback for the US-led, George Bush sponsored, coalition forces to date!

If CNN says it, it must be true. (Sarcasm at its finest)
79 posted on 03/26/2003 12:13:38 PM PST by Scarlet_Pimpernil (Michael Moore, show the courage of your convictions: become a human shield)
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To: TADSLOS
Those media reports about coalition forces being bullies should be impacting any minute now...

Absolutely, and wait until we start to see the collapse. They will go berserk.....Today at the Pentagon briefing some nit wit news schill said, in response to the Pentagon spokeswomen's tirade against the Fedeyeen Sadaam loyalists and their despicable and UNLAWFUL tactics, "Isn't that to be expected in a time of war?" You know damn well he would be apopletic if we were doing 1/10th of what they have done.

80 posted on 03/26/2003 12:14:08 PM PST by PISANO
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