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| Iraq |
| The Thunder Run |
| 2003-12-11 |
| ’Are You Kidding, Sir?’: Fewer Than 1,000 Soldiers Were Ordered to Capture a City of 5 Million Iraqis. Theirs Is a Story That May Become Military Legend. A riveting account of the battle for Baghdad. More info about the fights at Larry, Moe and Curly than I’ve seen anywhere. Go read this. There are too many heroes to count. |
| Posted by:growler |
| #9 AP -- Great! I'm here to help when I can. ;-) My work here is done... |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-12-12 10:53:06 AM |
| #8 Dar---I was already registered, but I used steveyr/asshat and sailed on in! LOL |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-12-11 9:58:41 PM |
| #7 God Bless the Cavalry, who says there ain't any place in Modern Warfare© for a good old-fashioned deep strike. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-12-11 9:24:52 PM |
| #6 Angie -- You can bet that puts some BBC dorks off their lunch. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-11 9:11:38 PM |
| #5 Sahaf, the delusional information minister, was already claiming that no American "infidels" had breached the city's defenses. [Col. David] Perkins had just heard Sahaf's distinctive rant on BBC radio: "The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad." A retreat now, Perkins thought, would validate the minister's lies... Perkins turned to his tank battalion commanders. "We're staying." The BBC: good for something at last. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2003-12-11 5:09:00 PM |
| #4 Let's see...scanning it here, and it appears that there are two -- count'em, two -- Captain Steves involved. We could have guessed as much. |
| Posted by: (lowercase) matt 2003-12-11 5:05:13 PM |
| #3 True, I watched it as well. However, it was not really clear what was going on at the time. Such as the whole brigade HQ being destroyed - there was just a casualty report - or that it was the result of a large missile strike, or that the battle on the supply route was so desperate. |
| Posted by: buwaya 2003-12-11 4:38:00 PM |
| #2 "Embedded journalists reported the battle's broad outlines in April" ? ? ? I f*king WATCHED it with my own eyes on MSNBC... |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2003-12-11 3:58:40 PM |
| #1 Don't want to register? UserId: steveyr Password: asshat |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-12-11 3:11:46 PM |