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***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 8 - LIVE THREAD***
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| 3/27/2003
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Posted on 03/26/2003 9:04:14 PM PST by Centurion2000
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To: AFPhys
There is a certain risk of different problems arising, but, say - war is risky no matter what you do. The question is how to get it done the best way given what you know and even to dynamically change your tactics depending on the results. The other question is, how do you get out of a jam once you're in it. Our answer to that is to have the means to blow the crap out of the bad guys when all else fails. (Sorta like the relief pitcher who saves his 200 mph fastball for when he's got the bases loaded, no outs, and 3-0 count.)
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:52:21 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: prairiebreeze
Makes a lot of sense Chris. I hope waiting doesn't increase our vulnerability. Or decrease momentum, but I don't think it will. At minimum though, we can expect MAJOR WHINING and even tantrums from the press and I believe the RATS will start joining in too because of delays. Their attention span is too short. So we will need to be ready with plenty of barf bags and a ton of patience and perserverance should your theory prove true.
So what if we wait a few weeks to go?
Our guys have to do what is right and militarily prudent so to do. It is wise for us to hold the RG's close to us, by the belt, as it were, and bleed them before they bleed us. Attriting the Guard at our leasure will lower their morale.
The only concern I have right now is for the supply line system. The Marines and the Infantry appear to have compensated by sending out hunter-killer teams to bag the Fedayeen and the other Ba'athist thugs. As long as the infantrymen take the offensive, the Ba'athists will have no chance.
Remember something: when it's guerrillas vs. trained infantry, always bet on the trained infantry.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:53:32 AM PST
by
section9
(You will all be shot unless you download the Saddam screensaver...)
To: chnsmok
"sirens in BG"I haven't heard any sirens. I did hear some big booms a little while ago.
To: hawkaw
Why don't they just sound the initial siren at 12:01 AM and sound the all clear at 11:59 PM, then start all over again at 12:01?
To: Carolina
To: ninenot; Nam Vet
It will be difficult to take Baghdad without razing it.
But who can give me any hints that S&A was a success? After dropping thousands of bombs, the Iraqi military should have been in a state of shock, unable to strike back. Instead, they´re happy & alive, trying to kill as many soldiers as possible. Now it´s going to become a real war. The nice, quick war (some air strikes, surrendering enemies) is a fairy-tale, told by Germans who fought against France. ;-))
To: plain talk
Yes, Turkish Kurds = TurdsNeat pun.
But let's not jump to conclusions.
Remember that the Brits drew the boundaries following WWI or WWII (or both???) and effectively told the Kurds that they were no longer a nation--
Pardon me, but who the blazes made THAT decision?
To: Peach
No humor then, just a question.
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?
Nam Vet
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:54:55 AM PST
by
Nam Vet
(What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?)
To: section9
Sky split screen: Rummy at the Senate and Camp David.
To: chnsmok
Now I am hearing them. How could you hear them before me?
To: Peach
Ya know... David Copperfield may make the statue of Liberty vanish from view, but Tommy Franks has made the 11,000 member II marine Expeditionary Force dissapear somewhere where nobody is looking. I think this is quite a neat trick. I just wish I could see the Iraqi faces when they decide to end the illusion.
To: ninenot
Pardon me, but who the blazes made THAT decision? The very same folks who invented Yugoslavia -- and that worked out swell, too.
1,572
posted on
03/27/2003 7:56:04 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
Those poodle-brained reporters at CENTCOM are just mad because they got snookered. It's obvious now that CENTCOM is not going to make news during this war. They're letting the embeds' reports and interviews make the headlines. CENTCOM briefings are being used to clarify previously reported news...and to show the gunship videos. (Funny how those were sooooo dramatic 12 years ago.)
As for reporters like that NY Mag woosie, they made the mistake of judging by Gulf War I standards. In GW-I, Stormin' Norman hugged the spotlight and made all the news.
Remember this dude? I think he now does a drive-time radio in St. Louis.
CENTCOM reporters are afraid they'll just go the way of Charles Jaco.
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:56:17 AM PST
by
Timeout
(...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)
To: retrokitten
Ahhh..Rummy. Thanks!
1,574
posted on
03/27/2003 7:56:31 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
(ABC News - ignoring CENTCOM briefings. ABC - misinformed, misinforming the people. Case closed.)
To: no one in particular; yall
What's with all the pulled threads???
Play nice guys!
The thread looks like Swiss Cheese - no offense An.American.Expatrate...
To: AFPhys; Lauratealeaf
Good observations from both of you
Prairie
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:56:53 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(God Bless and Protect the Allied Troops. And their families here at home---they are soldiers too.)
To: Nam Vet
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'? Well, whoever it was, I'm eternally greatful that they picked a girl cow.
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:56:56 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: Peach
Humor side bar:
On the Drudge home page - does the soldier on the right look like Jessica Parker (sex in the city) on a bad day - or is it just me? (the guy looks fine, by the way)
To: Carolina
Thanks for the nomination! };^D )
To: DollyCali
Touched me hard. My father was USN 1941-1947, USAF 1954-1971. Though I hope it is yet decades off, he is getting near that last tribute from his country. He did not like war, but understood that peace at any cost is too expensive, and served with quiet pride.
He saw buddies ripped apart in combat in the South Pacific, saw bullet holes in walls in Korea placed there by North Korean murderers through US airmen.
He refueled B-52's in Maine during the Cuban missle crisis, with his family in housing on the same base, realizing suddenly WE were the front line.
When he is gone, he will have that salute, his casket will bear that flag. But until then he will be loved and treasured for my father fought to secure my freedom, and thought the potential cost negligible,
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