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2004-10-14 Iraq-Jordan

Large-scale US and Iraqi forces poised around four Sunni Triangle hotbeds

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Posted by 3dc 2004-10-14 1:53:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 D-day.

Posted by 2b 2004-10-14 9:35:11 AM|| 2004-10-14 9:35:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 My guess is Balad is next. Then Ramadi.

Why Balad? Big US logistical base up near there, nicknamed "Mortaritaville". They need to clear the area.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-14 10:04:33 AM|| 2004-10-14 10:04:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope they have, and use, lots of artillery. Wreck these places as a lesson.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-10-14 11:02:27 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-10-14 11:02:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What is best in life? To crush your enemies, have them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women.

Posted by Conan the Barbarian 2004-10-14 11:21:27 AM|| 2004-10-14 11:21:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Conan: GOD I love that quote. Almost as good as the napalm line from Apocalypse Now.

Posted by Jonathan 2004-10-14 11:57:13 AM|| [http://www.workaround.blogspot.com] 2004-10-14 11:57:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Genghis Khan actually

Posted by buwaya 2004-10-14 12:26:35 PM|| 2004-10-14 12:26:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't have US forces behaving like Jenghis Khan now, can we?

Posted by RWV 2004-10-14 12:31:51 PM|| 2004-10-14 12:31:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Are there insufficient Iraqis to do these nests simultaneously? Although the MSM is so daft and dense they think the US forces must dash from place to place to initiate offensive action, which is utterly absurd, we know better: each and every offensive-capable element is perfectly able to execute such orders independently. If done in series, it must be a lack of blooded Iraqis - there are huge advantages to doing these places in parallel, instead.

Posted by .com 2004-10-14 1:20:44 PM|| 2004-10-14 1:20:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Flash: fallujah negotiations collapse, Allawi demand for turnover of Zarqawi is "impossible".

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-14 1:29:18 PM|| 2004-10-14 1:29:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Article here on the deployment of the carrier Truman, which is leaving "to head back to the war on terrorism.
" Was this a scheduled deployment or not?

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-10-14 1:39:02 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-10-14 1:39:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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