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04-08-2003, 12:56 PM
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Do you ever get the feeling that things are going to darn good with the liberation of Iraq? I have been thinking that it just can't be this easy and something wierd is going to happen any minute......... 
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04-08-2003, 01:09 PM
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Does seem kind of strange doesn't it? I don't know though, war is like a big chess game.
I doubt the Iraqi soldiers would let this much of their country be taken so quickly. If they are planning something, it'd be nice to have some room to work with...
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04-08-2003, 03:14 PM
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It might wind up like the South Pacific, with wrinkled little bald guys holed up in a cave with a gun for 30 years because they don't believe that the war is over.  | |
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04-08-2003, 04:51 PM
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I think its more like the Iraqis, thought they would win because Allah was on their side and all the arab nations would come to their rescue.
Their loseing to us was a given, first Iraq needed troops who WANTED TO WIN. Their 1960 era equipment just wasnt up to being an obstacle to out 1990+ equipment.
Vern
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04-08-2003, 05:32 PM
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You guys keep saying "the Iraqis" like that's who we are at war with. It's not.
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04-08-2003, 08:48 PM
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Sorry Out,
When I said Iraqi, I did mean the Saddam regime, not the average guy on the street.
Vern
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04-09-2003, 06:37 AM
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Sorry, OuTpaTienT, we may be at war with Saddam Hussein, but it's the Iraqis who're getting bombed and shot; I don't suppose it makes a heck of a lot of difference to them. From The New York Times: Quote:
Iraqi casualties appeared to be heavy. Reporters visiting only one of the city's major hospitals, the Kindi in eastern Baghdad, were told by doctors that the battle for control of the government quarter had brought in 200 to 300 civilian casualties, among them 35 dead.
On a bloodied gurney inside, a 50-year-old man who gave his name as Talib said he had been selling cigarettes from a hand cart in Al Alawi Square, near the city's main bus station about a mile from the Tigris, when he was hit by shrapnel from an American tank round. Left alone by doctors who appeared to have judged his injuries not to be life-threatening, the man let out repeated roars of pain, saying he had been hit in the back. "Is this Bush's promised `liberation'?" he shouted.
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