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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: Recovering_Democrat
Did you see the thread on Ritter, where he said we would lose this war??!? LOL!

Yes I did.

If that is not an ironclad guarantee that we'll win, I don't know what is.

Ritter doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

Here's hoping Scotty takes one in the head for the team, at some point.

81 posted on 03/26/2003 12:14:09 PM PST by Yankee
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To: lormand
CNN Breaking News! Iraqi column hit hard by British troups Women and children hardest hit!

My, my, aren't we cynical.


BUMP

82 posted on 03/26/2003 12:14:13 PM PST by tm22721 (May the UN rest in peace)
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To: aristeides
Could they have been planning to try to cross over into Iran?

If there are any survivors, perhaps we can ask them. I can't find any bridges on that road across into Iran, and there's no way they could cross the waterway without one.

Nor would the Iranians be glad to see them.

It is difficult, though, to come up with any reason why they would leave Basra in that direction. It's one of the dumbest military moves since Pickett's Charge.

83 posted on 03/26/2003 12:14:27 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Recovering_Democrat
One possibility why these guys may have made this stupid move...they have Al Jazeera (sp?) reporters ready to take photo's of the massacre to be transmitted to the muslime and Euro world. If these guys are willing to die for a photo-op, then they are definitely crazy...however the photo's can significantly appeal to the world that we are madmen....and further stir up the anger in our enemies...Just multiply the anger we feel about our executed POW's and multiply that by 1000...
84 posted on 03/26/2003 12:14:43 PM PST by Maringa
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To: CholeraJoe
The reports of these columns were what prompted my original Question.

Nothing like a long stringy looking group of targets, to make an AC-130 feel useful.....One down each side would be even better.....

Imagine the look on the nitwits faces at the point of convergence.....

85 posted on 03/26/2003 12:14:46 PM PST by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: lady lawyer
In this case, "mostly dead" doesn't necessarily mean "slightly alive".

Have fun storming the castle...

86 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:02 PM PST by Redcloak (All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
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To: jacksonstate
Sounds like the convoy of RepublicLemmings didn't make it very far.
87 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:08 PM PST by TheAbbodad
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
I prefer his real name "Saddam Hussein Il-Tikrit" or his initials....S.H.*.T.!!!
88 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:14 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: jacksonstate
Well, hell, everyone's speculating, so I will too -- not that I have any expertise on the subject.

My guess is that the move south, under the cover of darkness and the sandstorm, was an attempt to reach an engagement with our ground forces in the hopes that once they met us on the ground, we'd be more reluctant to use air support for fear of "friendly fire" incidents. Possibly they were further hoping that the sandstorm would continue another day, further "levelling the playing field."

A desperate move, even if the weather had cooperated; doomed utterly when the weather improved. The fact that they took this gamble speaks volumes.

89 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:31 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (optional tag line, printed after my name)
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To: Southack
LOL...I know it's not really funny...but it pleases me...more of their guys die...less left to kill ours.
90 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:40 PM PST by wardaddy (G-d speed our fighters!)
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To: wideawake
Does the sandstorm also inhibit their use of chemical weapons?
91 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:47 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Lurking since 2000.)
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To: Dog Gone; wardaddy
See #45!
92 posted on 03/26/2003 12:15:52 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Eva
"I keep waiting to hear that it was all a trick, somehow. Maybe they filled the trucks with children or troops who wanted to surrender."

My thoughts exactly. Every time anything like this happens, my first thought is what are they up to?

These people have no limit to how low they will stoop for even the most fleeting gain. They know they can't beat us militarily, and will use all the propaganda they can muster to pressure us politically.

93 posted on 03/26/2003 12:16:04 PM PST by Goldsters
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To: aristeides
But you need to go south to cross the Euphrates most conveniently, I think?
94 posted on 03/26/2003 12:16:19 PM PST by wideawake (Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Do you think the head of the command and control is so damaged, that the generals thought we would fight them in hand-to-hand combat?

I've seen Jazeera clips. there's a program on cable with news clips from various Arab stations. They are blasting the line from CNN that there are "great" victories. One popular myth repeated is the old farmer who shot down a helicopter with an old rifle.

I imagine the Arab radio says much the same. This prideful reporting might be encouraging wild and stupid resistance.

I doubt BBC or VOA is doing anything to counter the propaganda.

95 posted on 03/26/2003 12:16:30 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Maringa
I wonder if our military has clean-up crews for such massacres so that they don't provide fuel to the already negative media...
96 posted on 03/26/2003 12:16:38 PM PST by Maringa
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Senator Tom Daschle (D) after hearing of the news . . .


I am deeply saddened that this Iraqi column was destroyed.

97 posted on 03/26/2003 12:16:47 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: jacksonstate
CNN reports that Iraqi column of vehicles leaving Basra have been mostly destroyed.

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Yeah, I guess not. Ha ha ha.
98 posted on 03/26/2003 12:16:48 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Badabing Badaboom
Yes, you are right, something is fishy here. This is too weird.
99 posted on 03/26/2003 12:17:13 PM PST by mel
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To: Redcloak
It is difficult, though, to come up with any reason why they would leave Basra in that direction. It's one of the dumbest military moves since Pickett's Charge.

I've been thinking of that exchange between Lee and Pickett after the charge in the film "Gettysburgh".

Lee: "General Pickett, you had better look after your division.".

Pickett: "General Lee, I have no division.".

100 posted on 03/26/2003 12:18:26 PM PST by Yankee
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