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In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked their lives to rescue her!

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Chemical Ali has been transformed into an inert element.

So would that make him Chemical Argon ... or Argon Ali ?? And does he glow red or blue when electrified ?:)

Dem noble gasses are fun :)

Three lines in the blue of the spectrum...

[MeekOneGOP]

General amused by analysts -
references a cow and a 'flat rock'

04/06/2003

From Staff Reports

WASHINGTON – Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael "Buzz" Moseley may be commander of the U.S.-British air effort over Iraq, but he was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, where plain-spokenness is a virtue.

Asked Saturday about critics of the U.S. war plan, especially the many former military officers on television, Gen. Moseley said he found it humorous.

"Retired military people from various grades, from major to general, seem to feel free to comment on a plan that they have never seen ... or have any understanding of," he said.

"I grew up in Texas, and a lot of these guys, I'm amused by the way they critique it, but in the end, it's a whole lot like listening to a cow pee on a flat rock. It just doesn't matter."

[TomGuy]

If you haven't seen the Rapping Marine, Alex Rivera, it's worth the watch. The video is on MSNBC's website.

[glock rocks]

so they're now trying to find any trace of Ali himself there.

i like the sound of that.... perhaps that trace would be a pink stain on the walls.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Dep. SOD Paul Wolfowitz on Meet the Press: "The Iraqi people are one of the most educated in the world." "This idea that Arabs aren't capable of democracy is nonsense" "I remember when people said Koreans weren't capable of democracy."

[BagCamAddict]

WHAT ARE WE SEEING ON MSNBC ????

I hope to God they aren't showing the American POWs.

[Dog]

That was close to the camera....small arms by the sounds of it..

[Timeout]

I have a new theory (I think it's new) about why Gen. Franks left Iraqi TV on the air for so long. Despite all the armchair critics, consider this angle.

Much of the Arab world was buying into the lies spewed from B. Bob, cheering on "the great Iraqi forces". They accepted it carte blanche.

But there came a point yesterday where even the Arab viewers could see for themselves the lies and treachery coming through that microphone. Americans not in Baghdad? It just looked and sounded foolish. They Arab audience HAD to start asking themselves what else they had been told that wasn't true. I suspect much retrospection going on in that audience.

There is now every reason to believe that Gen. Franks and his staff would have foreseen just such a development. Better to have B. Bob discredit himself....they might never have believed it coming from our side. So, once again, Gen. Franks' brilliance pays off.

What do y'all think?

[pitinkie]

thanks!

[pitinkie]

Arnett on NTV!!!

[Dog]

What is that ungodly sound on the Bagcam....

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Must have been cherry bombs or bottle rockets to have that affect!! We must have run out of the "big stuff"!!

Well, we ARE dropping concrete bombs...

;^)

[pitinkie]

Arnett?

[pitinkie]

He is humming now.

[Dog]

SKY News: Coalition forces seize BA'AT HQ in Basra....

[Otta B Sleepin]

Makes sense to me. Not to mention possibly raising a question in some people's minds as to why BB was the only one showing up on camera? (discounting the so-called Saddam videotapes). More and more he's been looking like a pathetic lone ranger out there all by himself trying desperately to convince everyone that the ship is not sinking even as the waters close in over their heads.

[Consort]

What do y'all think?

Agree. That's the same reason why we leave Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, et al on the air.

[Timeout]

Ungodly sound? Do you mean the compressor? That's all I'm hearing.

[Otta B Sleepin]

That's the same reason why we leave Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, et al on the air.

So can we turn our military loose on them after we get done in Iraq?

[BagCamAddict]

DIDN'T ANYONE CATCH THAT video in the streets?? Video shot by an Iraqi. Started out from a sandbagged shooting position, then showed a burned out VW van (or something like that), then went indoors to a child with bandages and maybe an amputated leg... then an adult male Iraqi who spoke English talking to the camera about what a tragedy it was: Ali's house was attacked and his whole family and everybody is dead, and what a great loss it is. He didn't say if Ali himself was dead, but then the feed died, and it went back up to the roof, for the tail end of whatever Arnett was saying.