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2003-11-18 Iraq

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Posted by Dragon Fly 2003-11-18 11:00:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fighter-bombers dropped 500-pound bombs and tanks fired their 120mm guns at suspected ambush sites

Now we're getting 'Merkin on their asses. Recon by fire now.... setting up a free fire zone later.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-18 11:51:46 AM|| 2003-11-18 11:51:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 blasted abandoned buildings, walls, and trees
Expect to hear from Greenpeace about the trees any minute now

Posted by AWW 2003-11-18 12:44:47 PM|| 2003-11-18 12:44:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Near Baqouba, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, U.S. jets and Apache helicopter gunships Tuesday blasted abandoned buildings, walls and trees along a road where attacks have been so common that troops nicknamed it "RPG Alley" after the rocket-propelled grenades used by insurgents. Fighter-bombers dropped 500-pound bombs and tanks fired their 120mm guns at suspected ambush sites, the military said.

Now I'm curious. Did they just expend ordnance on places that were empty? Why couldn't they have waited until nightfall, when the Saddam sympathizers would likely be slinking around these spots, and kill two birds with one stone by blowing apart the buildings AND the guerillas in one or two sorties/attacks?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-18 1:36:53 PM|| 2003-11-18 1:36:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Expect to hear from Greenpeace about the trees any minute now.
I demand that any Greenpeace 'volunteer' who wishes to protect trees in Iraq come personally and chain themselves to the tree they desire to protect.

Now all I need is for someone to hand out enough scorpion bait to paint every tree so occupied...

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-18 2:54:20 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-18 2:54:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 In some cases, I expect we blasted sites we knew were empty, just to point out that we could. In others, I suspect we waited until the little white blogs appeared on the night vision cameras. Know what I mean, Vern?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-11-18 4:00:30 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-11-18 4:00:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I lie that we are shooting folks again. It gives me a headache arguing about the treatment of prisoners. I vote that we take fewer of them.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-18 8:53:06 PM|| 2003-11-18 8:53:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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