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ABC Radio is reporting the Coalition is on the tarmac, opposition is nowhere to be seen
ABC News - Radio | 04/03/03 | ABC News

Posted on 04/03/2003 11:03:56 AM PST by BaghdadBarney

ABC radio reporter Bob Schmidt, tells listeners via phone, that tanks and other armored vehicles broke through the barriers of Saddam Intl. Airport and has yet to experience any resistance...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airportclash; battleforbaghdad; iraq; iraqifreedom; viceisclosing; war; warlist
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To: voicesinthewilderness
My worst nightmare would be a nuclear bomb

While I was watching the footage of night vision on wha appeared to be a palace, I kept waiting for that nuke. Something is just so wrong.

61 posted on 04/03/2003 11:16:33 AM PST by JustPiper (Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
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To: Mean Maryjean
Is it just me, or are there others who think that our incredible push/arrival to Baghdad seems so strange with regard to the low-to-no resistance we've been getting. And now at the Airport and no resistance? It all seems strange. Where in the world are the 10's of thousands-strong RG and ERG units we've heard so much about. This is all strange indeed.

It's mnore than strange. It's not time to crow.... yet.

62 posted on 04/03/2003 11:16:35 AM PST by Beenliedto (Class of '98)
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To: Im Your Huckleberry
Don't make the equally egregious mistake of OVER estimating our enemy that we made in Vietnam of underestimating. I think the RG was shattered in dispersed units in the SOUTH, and we STILL do not have the II Marine Exped. Force even accounted for in theater.
63 posted on 04/03/2003 11:16:41 AM PST by LS
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To: voicesinthewilderness
You bet. A dirty bomb in the middle of Baghdad would be just to Saddam's liking. Now since his whole family is taken out or moved out, this seems likely. Oh Lord, put Your arms of protection around our troops. Keep them safe and bring them home free from harm....
64 posted on 04/03/2003 11:16:55 AM PST by netmilsmom (Bush/Rice 2004- pray & fast for our troops this lent-Peace through strength)
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To: Duckdog
whered are they all?
probably loading up the vx and botulanum toxin warheads... or the small pox agents...

they want to go out in a blaze of wmd....

OR PERHAPS.. they are mostly dead, rotting, or otherwise resigned to failure...

we will know by tomorrow am...
65 posted on 04/03/2003 11:16:56 AM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (What price treason?)
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To: voicesinthewilderness
They don't have those things, Hans Blix said so.
66 posted on 04/03/2003 11:17:10 AM PST by holdmuhbeer
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To: Im Your Huckleberry
I'm very fearful that we might be being led into a trap. 

Don't underestimate the barbarians in filthy nightshirts. The Islamokazis are treacherous. The Crusaders learned this in the 12th century, let's not have to learn it again. 
Agreed; I heard on the radio the other day (Art Bell??), who spoke about what happened so very long ago....Iraq used to be the fertile crescent, until conquered by (I forget), who choked off the great Rivers, I believe the only way they could kill off the treacherous barbarians who then-lived in Babylon.
67 posted on 04/03/2003 11:17:13 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: plain talk
I sincerely doubt that. Once Saddam is clearly out of power, the "average" Iraqis will tear these scum apart---and you best believe they know who the bad guys are. Trust me, you are looking at people being hunted like animals.

Imagine a group of Nazis suddenly turned loose in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in 1950!

70 posted on 04/03/2003 11:18:34 AM PST by LS
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To: Duckdog
Sadman's right: Victory IS at hand.

Just not for him! hehehehehe

71 posted on 04/03/2003 11:19:01 AM PST by Redbob
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To: lavrenti
And don't spit into the wind!
72 posted on 04/03/2003 11:19:36 AM PST by Im Your Huckleberry
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To: Mean Maryjean
....And now at the Airport and no resistance.....

One effective weapon has never been mentioned and that is Bribes. Baksheese , promises.

When you review the chain of events from the Seal capture of the oil terminal to the un blown oil wells, to the WMD factory taken intact with a guided tour by a general, to all the bridges intact, to the dam unblown to now another intact air port...... there can be but one conclusion.

That is, the entire army outside of Baghdad was purchased ante bellum and all these wonderful objectives were handed ove intact as a result of careful subtrafuge and massive bribes.

The historical precedent is Hitler asking the question....."Is Paris Burning?"

73 posted on 04/03/2003 11:19:36 AM PST by bert (Don't Panic !)
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To: plain talk
Read some of the accounts of detained or deserting RG soldiers. They have been bombed to mush, terrified, starved by their leaders. They are sick of it all. I am sure there are some diehards out there, but I am sure that most of Saddams 'elite' hear him say, "Kill them with your hands" and say to themselves, "Let that bastard come out here and become a pink vapor trail. I'm outta here."

Not over by any means, but our troops are getting better, more battle smart every hour. They are a force many levels above the best of the RG.

A_R

74 posted on 04/03/2003 11:20:09 AM PST by arkady_renko
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To: seventhcalvalry
I wouldn't worry too much about a lack of resistance. We have an incredibly well integrated fighting force. I think they've had their clocks cleaned.
75 posted on 04/03/2003 11:20:30 AM PST by gogeo (Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.)
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To: BaghdadBarney
I'm ecstatic at the lack of resistance, but am I the only one who's wondering just where the opposition is and what the heck it's doing? I also saw that the Pentagon briefer said we didn't take out the Baghdad power grid. Then who did? And WHY?

I'm happy, but also praying we don't get complacent. This is too weird.

MM

76 posted on 04/03/2003 11:21:19 AM PST by MississippiMan
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To: voicesinthewilderness
Up to this point it appears Hussein (or whoever's running the country now) has had no plan whatsoever. The guy's definitely delusional but it would not surprise me if Hussein decides at the last minute to explode all his chemical munitions with the city, using the "canyon-type" demography that city buildings create to exacerbate the effect of a chemical attack... Scary...
77 posted on 04/03/2003 11:21:36 AM PST by BaghdadBarney
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To: LS
Did you see the Iraqi man from Dearborn, MI on O'Reilly last night? The common citizen tearing the bad guys apart is almost exactly what he said. He has been her 20 years but still has sisters in Iraq.
78 posted on 04/03/2003 11:21:46 AM PST by netmilsmom (Bush/Rice 2004- pray & fast for our troops this lent-Peace through strength)
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To: Mean Maryjean
This is all strange indeed

Its not too strange if you realize that you are only being informed by the media of about %10-%20 of what is actually going on throughout the course of this war. The media, for what its worth, cannot be (and shouldnt be) everywhere to report everything thats going on. Take your worry-wart cap off...you (and I) will have most of our battlefield questions of the How-To's and Why's of this war answered soon enough.

79 posted on 04/03/2003 11:21:53 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
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To: Im Your Huckleberry
I say until Baghdad is completely under our control, we don't let up.

Ditto. It wouldn't be the first time an enemy played 'possum to draw their opponent into a position more favorable to them. After all, nothing else seems to have work for the Iraqis.

Best to prepare for the worst & be pleasantly surprised.

80 posted on 04/03/2003 11:22:12 AM PST by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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