[An.American.Expatriate]

Last but not least . . .

Belly Girl	Special Ops. Guy

[two23]

A US Army soldier mans the gun of a Bradley armored vehicle while on a convoy in Karbala. The US Army's 3rd Infantry Division pushed on towards Baghdad.

[two23]

Great Job--again--thanks for keeping up the thread!

[Doomonyou]

There was a nice smooth transition.

[JustPiper]

The heck with belly girl, my son created Patriotic Lamont for Freeping ;)

[AFPhys]

Regarding "preemptive war" and the President's policies:

If you are intending to speak to folks about the President's National Security policy, I suggest that you take a look at the following documents and not rely on any lamestream media source:

President Bush Delivers Graduation Speech at West Point - June 1, 2002

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020601-3.html

and

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America

http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html

The administration's philosophy and policy is more accurately described as the "Liberty Doctrine". The lamestream media has attempted to belittle it by calling it a "doctrine of pre-emption", but that is a gross mischaracterization, as you will note if you look into those documents. Preemption may fit into it, but it is not at all the meat and potatoes of the Bush Doctrine. The press has worked to demean it much as they did by calling it Reagan's "Star Wars".

I might suggest that it would be useful for you to bookmark these and check into them later when there is more time for perusal. Actually, the speech is fairly quick to read, and (as usual) a Bush home run and you may wish to look at it now. The Strategy paper is far more complex, and not a quick read.

I won't be around for discussion this morning (having gone 40+hrs w/o sleep yet again...) but you can FReepmail me if you like, and we'll have a discussion of it at a later date... or you all can have at it tonight. It would be a good 'un if the thread is slow today.

[Centurion2000]

BUMP

[Pro-Bush]

On CNN live. Gun battle and wounded Iraqi soldier getting medical assistance by our troops.

[Pro-Bush]

On CNN live. Gun battle and wounded Iraqi soldier getting medical assistance by our troops.

[condi2008]

Anyone know when's the next CENTCOM briefing?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fri Apr 4, 4:16 AM ET

Map of the Baghdad area locating the US assault on Sadam International Airport, as of Friday 0500 GMT(AFP)

[mhking]

G'Mornin....Looks like I sent the updated list to the wrong person! [g]

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SNN6 Sarasota, FL (Real)
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[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Cboldt]

I saw this repeated on Kudlow and Cramer last night. Apologies if it's in here already.

Martin Savidge of CNN, embedded with the 1st Marine battalion, was talking with 4 young Marines near his foxhole this morning live on CNN. He had been telling the story of how well the Marines had been looking out for and taking care of him since the war started. He went on to tell about the many hardships the Marines had endured since the war began and how they all look after one another.

He turned to the four and said he had cleared it with their commanders and they could use his video phone to call home. The 19 year old Marine next to him asked Martin if he would allow his platoon sergeant to use his call to call his pregnant wife back home whom he had not been able to talk to in three months. A stunned Savidge who was visibly moved by the request shook his head and the young Marine ran off to get the sergeant.

Savidge recovered after a few seconds and turned back to the three young Marines still sitting with him and asked which one of them would like to call home first, the Marine closest to him responded without a moments hesitation " Sir, if is all the same to you we would like to call the parents of a buddy of ours, Lance Cpl Brian Buesing of Cedar Key, Florida who was killed on 3-23-03 near Nasiriya to see how they are doing".

At that Martin Savidge totally broke down and was unable to speak. All he could get out before signing off was "Where do they get young men like this?".

[TomGuy]

Power grid question.

To the reporter: Maybe Saddam forgot to pay his electric bill this month. (We'll probably never know whether the power-off what US or THEM.)

[TomGuy]

Is that Achmed-the-tool-man-Taylor on CBS Bagdadcam?

[TomGuy]

You put your right arm in...
and you shake it all about.....


(webcam)

[guitfiddlist]

I've been watching coverage of our brave men of the 101st having to kowtow to the Shia idiots blocking the way for the 101st to clear the headquarters of their chief Shia Ayatollah - who fully supports the US - and who requested the army to free his headquarters. Apparently, a rumor was started that the US was going to storm their sacred Shia shrine further down the block.

How brave these Shiite-heads become around the US Army - the most humane fighting force in history. Well, I've got a better idea how we can put these little cowards in their place.

First, we tell the Ayatollah that Sunni Fedayeen shooting from the Shia mosque is an obvious abomination. Second, the US Army will supply all necessary small arms for Shia fighters to clear their sacred mosque of Fedayeen infidels, once the Ayatollah verifies their Shiite-ness. Then request that the Ayatollah issue another Fatwah demanding all able-bodied Shiite-heads in the streets to storm the mosque and rescue it from those evil Sunni's.

Then watch the cowardly scum suddenly hear their mommies calling for them, or that they suddenly remembered they need to get their clothes out of the dryer. If these are our allies, I'm feeling less bad about what happened to them in '91.

[OldFriend]

May I offer a special prayer for the three soldiers at the checkpoint who moved forward to help a screaming pregnant woman.

There are really no words to describe the barbarism of the regime.

The regime that Senator Kerry compared to our own.

[TomGuy]

CBS webcam feed got mixed with ABC/Ted Koppel report. Koppel was showing an old aircraft Saddam purchased from the US (way back when). Koppel's trying to implicate the US in to be connected with Saddam now. [gonna go gag...breakfast is coming up....thanks Ted.]

[TomGuy]

FoxNews reporting: Iraq Info Minister said non-convention action may be taken.

[This is an obvious threat!!!! Could get nasty.]