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2003-04-02 Iraq

Sammy: Iraq Threw Only Third Of Forces Into Battle

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-02 12:57 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Could the call for "Jihad" have been mistaken for an April Fools joke?

Posted by tbn 2003-04-02 13:05:54|| 2003-04-02 13:05:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The other 2/3 deserted, apparently.

Posted by jrosevear 2003-04-02 13:10:54|| 2003-04-02 13:10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I am glad he is holding back the other two-thirds, it makes easier for them to desert.

Posted by pj 2003-04-02 13:17:38|| 2003-04-02 13:17:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Required reading for all Ba'athist officials...if they're going to perpetuate the fraud, they could at least entertain us..."Weekend at Sammy's"

http://www.amctv.com/show/detail/0,,10688-1-EST,00.html

Posted by mjh 2003-04-02 13:25:57|| 2003-04-02 13:25:57|| Front Page Top

#5 "The opportunity is there today to defend religion, honor and principles in the face of the invaders. You go do that. I'll be in St. Tropez, on the beach, ah . . . recruiting reinforcements, yeah, that's it."

Posted by Mike 2003-04-02 13:26:22|| 2003-04-02 13:26:22|| Front Page Top

#6 " ...but the other 2/3rds all stared at the Ark when Uday opened it and they all melted. So that's a tough break right off the bat."

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-02 14:05:03|| 2003-04-02 14:05:03|| Front Page Top

#7 whoever wrote the above is not far off, but drawing the wrong conclusions. Using only 1/3 of your force, while coalition employs ALL its forces, shows that due to your loss of command and control, and coalition control of the air, you can't concentrate your forces. The regime
is sending its troops in piecemeal, to be destroyed. Its most unlikely that the remaining 2/3rds can be concentrated either - most are held down in the north, or near Amara on the Tigris. So it is now clear that the regime cant win outside urban areas, it is slowly losing in the urban areas of the south. Its only chance now (other than WMD) is the "battle of Baghdad" - and Id say its chances in that battle look a lot worse today then they did 3 days ago.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-02 14:20:31|| 2003-04-02 14:20:31|| Front Page Top

#8 The speech was greeted by a series of explosions shaking Baghdad during the morning as the southern, western and northwestern outskirts came under new waves of bombing.
"Hey! Couldja keep it down? We're givin' a victory speech here, dammit!"

LOL
Funny.
Fun-eeee.

Posted by Celissa 2003-04-02 15:33:45|| [www.celissasblog.com/weblog.php] 2003-04-02 15:33:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Wasn't Sammy's 11th Army more or lest destroyed by day five? I can't remember - the days all seem the same: Bomb Baghdad, destroy an army, infiltrate a city, blow up a Baath party headquarters - it kinda gets monotonous after a bit...

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-02 18:42:16|| 2003-04-02 18:42:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Still hasn't come out, huh? Is it the weather? Wonder if he's troubled by rheumatizz these days? Or rigor mortis?

He's got a bad case of maggots.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-02 18:59:25|| 2003-04-02 18:59:25|| Front Page Top

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