06-04-2003 23:03									#31
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1. He gave an interview to Iraqi TV saying that the military plan of the US had failed, giving comfort to the enemy.
2. He gave very specific information about location and future battle plans.
3. No, congress didn't officially declare war, but gave Bush permission under the War Powers Act to take action.
4. Basra is supposed to partially under Brit control at this time, including a presence in the city center. Nasiriyah is mostly under US control, although there are still pockets of resistance.

	06-04-2003 23:06									#32
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never much liked geraldo or arnett anyways. if it weren't for the fact that american troops would have died, that geraldo fiasco could have led to positive results: i.e., no more geraldo.

	06-04-2003 23:51									#33
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i hear d that the airfields already have some craters in it.

Im guessing practicality of using it as airbase is nil.

	07-04-2003 00:09									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Calc II i hear d that the airfields already have some craters in it. Im guessing practicality of using it as airbase is nil.

I would imagine that the crators could be easily repaired or or marked off and avoided by landing planes, if they are few enough.
Our combat engineers are quite handy, im sure they could think of somethn.

	07-04-2003 00:15									#35
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Do you people have DanS on ignore or something?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...port_landing_dc

	07-04-2003 02:32									#36
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quote: Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat Rivera is goddamned lucky he's not locked up facing charges of aiding and abetting the enemy.

What exactly did he do? I missed that part.

PS Never mind, my question has been answered already.

	07-04-2003 03:47									#37
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Yes, the Airport is of great significance. Now that it has been taken, I heard on NPR and on CNN that when Allied troops start doing operations in Baghdad, they will have 24/7 close air support which would have been more difficult without the airbase.

	07-04-2003 04:13									#38
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It's common US tactic - capture airport. Common vikings tactic was - raid bigest house, capture leader, get money. US are working, supposedly, on part two of that plan.

	07-04-2003 04:14									#39
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Part 3 is the biggest motive for the war

	07-04-2003 04:21									#40
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quote: Originally posted by DanS 1. He gave an interview to Iraqi TV saying that the military plan of the US had failed, giving comfort to the enemy.

IT made me good laught.

Is there some link with transcript of his speach?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth...ers/2917635.stm

quote: Months before the current hostilities began, Phillip Knightley, author of a book on war reporting, The First Casualty, said Gulf War II would mean the demise of the war correspondent "as an objective, independent person trying to find out what is going on". "The Pentagon has been out to get Peter Arnett ever since he reported from Baghdad in Gulf War One," Knightley tells BBC News Online. "It hates war correspondents being there and has pressurised all their employers to withdraw them.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...rnettfired.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast...prj.irq.arnett/


well I hope I didn't do big threadjack. This thread should be about US capture of US bombarded airport and US soldiers that was shoot from near buildings. /if any of them was hit of course/

	07-04-2003 09:04									#41
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quote: "It hates war correspondents being there and has pressurised all their employers to withdraw them.

yes, the pentagon hates them so much that they embeded them in with the troops