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Originally posted by Sir Taliesin:
Two of FOXNEWS reporters (one's Olie North) are reporting that they have entered Baghdad proper with elements of the 3rd ID and the 1st MarDiv. They are under heavy fire, but are advancing!
Apparently Franks didn't want to waste much time! Could this be the beginning of the last battle?
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WOW! I didn't believe it at first, I thought the resistance would be able to put up more of a fight but they set themselves up, entrenched along the roadside in tanks and trucks where they were toasted upon aproach as the U.S. forces moved through.
Amazing and sad at the same time...it'd be like seeing George Jetson's armed forces take on Fred Flintstone...even the U.S. commanders said they were unworthy opponents...they got points for their level of resistance but that didn't help anyone who wanted to get in the way of the 3rd ID.
These guys (from the highway signs I've seen) moved in from the North (?), heading towards the airport to clear/secure a path for supply units.
EDIT: They made a large U shaped path from the airport, into Baghdad and then back to the airport. [img]smile.gif[/img] Leaving my own earlier misunderstanding intact.
Good job...
great job so far. The quicker this is all over, the better.
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I saw the Iraqi Minister of Imformation give a televised press conference where he said that U.S. forces had been surrounded and destroyed at Saddam Int'l Airport and even offered allow reporters to take a tour bus to see that the republican guard had it under control "as soon as they clean it up". What message does this man intend to put out to the other Arab nations viewing it (because Baghdad is largely without electricity) other than he is a desperate liar? Would
you get on a tour bus that this man loaded? LOL.
He said that the U.S. is playing "Wag The Dog" with its citizens....I'd like to know where we could set up so many miles of buildings, houses, palm trees, Arabic highway signs, burning/exploding vintage Russian tanks, armored trucks, vans/trucks/cars loaded with suicidal extremists, Saddam Hussein portraits & statues, landmarks of Baghdad, and surrendering survivors of the republican guard to pull this off...maybe even apply to be an extra heh heh heh...there'd have to be good money in a production that big provided it is taking place within the boundaries of our own country.
[ 04-05-2003, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: Lil Lil ]