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2003-04-01 Iraq

More for the Meat Grinder outside Baghdad

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Posted by Tadderly 2003-04-01 03:50 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Parenthetical statement is mine - i can't figure out the friggin' hi-lite. Sorry.

Posted by Tadderly 2003-04-01 15:56:02|| 2003-04-01 15:56:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Holy Crap!!! Republican Guard and elite troops? How will the (other than elite?) US military ever make it?

Posted by Rawsnacks 2003-04-01 15:58:56|| 2003-04-01 15:58:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Iraq seems to have an awful lot of "Elite" troops.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-04-01 16:33:24|| 2003-04-01 16:33:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like they're giving up the north and committing to the south in a BIG attempt to give us a bloody nose down there and try to make us quit. Trouble is, when they move, they die.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-01 16:44:36|| 2003-04-01 16:44:36|| Front Page Top

#5 the more I see 'the plan' in action, the more beautiful it looks.

Posted by Dishman 2003-04-01 16:46:56|| 2003-04-01 16:46:56|| Front Page Top

#6 The plan suggested 2 centers of gravity: Saddam and the RG. We may have missed the Dirt Bag, but he's got a nice used tank lot of slightly used and abuse Soviet armor south of Baghdad.

Posted by Doug De Bono 2003-04-01 17:25:31|| [www.douglasdebono.com] 2003-04-01 17:25:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, there's the Republican Guard, and then there's the Special Republican Guard. No joke.

Posted by John Thacker 2003-04-01 17:31:47|| 2003-04-01 17:31:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Granted there is the RG and SRG, but unit cohesiveness has taken quite a beating with 24x7 air strikes and artillery barrages. If anyone has CW and BW weapons it will be SRG or one of Saddam's special intelligence units. It could either way: They collapse and give up, or they figure they have nothing to lose launch the bad stuff.

Posted by Doug De Bono 2003-04-01 21:05:28|| [www.douglasdebono.com] 2003-04-01 21:05:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Fox says 3ID's in a big brawl in Karbala. Says this is the start of the push to Baghdad.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-01 22:52:50|| 2003-04-01 22:52:50|| Front Page Top

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