"Shock & Awe" begins! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

STORMINORMAN · #1 03-21-2003, 01:11 PM

Per Gen. Frank, we are "holding back" while, as we speak, surrender negotiations with "Senior Iraqi military commanders" are going on!

The beginning of the End for Sadaam, IF he's even still alive!

Free Iraq!

#2 03-21-2003, 01:50 PM

Shock and awe is terrible. Hopefully it will be over soon

Big thumbs down to Bush

Benzoman · #3 03-21-2003, 01:52 PM

This looks like it's shocking somebody. I'm awed! These fools don't even know you're supposed to 'black out' the city!!

STORMINORMAN · #4 03-21-2003, 02:03 PM

...because WE let them have their power plants. This is not an attack on the Iraqi people but on the regime and the military.

Of course it is terrible. It is designed to be terrible and effective. What better way to disarm Saddam's regime of inhuman terror? How many other hundred thousand innocent people, including their own citizens, will the brutal & criminal Baath regime be allowed to murder?

Free Iraq!

Benzoman · #5 03-21-2003, 02:11 PM

I wonder if anyone called '911' yet?

STORMINORMAN · #6 03-21-2003, 02:19 PM

...took the week off!

p.s. I just love the reporters asking Donald Rumsfeld "Do you think this makes the U.S. look like a bully?"

Maybe it would be more effective if we sent in some therapists?

P.P.S. Apologies to Gen FrankS

mikemover · #7 03-21-2003, 02:56 PM

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Originally posted by AndrewK
Shock and awe is terrible. Hopefully it will be over soon

Big thumbs down to Bush

"Shock and awe" is defending your right to sit here and say pointless things like "big thumbs down to Bush"! Go to Iraq and say, "Big thumbs down to Saddam" and see how long it takes before you are imprisoned or shot!

Well, maybe not today...because we are in the process of eliminating his grip of oppression on his own people, so he may be a little too busy running from bunker to bunker to bother with torturing you.

The lack of perspective that some people have on this thing astounds me.

Mike

Benzoman · #8 03-21-2003, 03:16 PM

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Originally posted by mikemover
"Shock and awe" is defending your right to sit here and say pointless things like "big thumbs down to Bush"! Go to Iraq and say, "Big thumbs down to Saddam" and see how long it takes before you are imprisoned or shot!

The lack of perspective that some people have on this thing astounds me.

Mike

I'm wondering where the 'human shields' are right now. I hope they're getting between some of thse bombs and their targets!! :p

#9 03-21-2003, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by AndrewK
Shock and awe is terrible. Hopefully it will be over soon

Big thumbs down to Bush

Do you the the terrorist version of shock and awe is better?

#10 03-21-2003, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by rsbiomedical
Do you the the terrorist version of shock and awe is better?

The terrorist connection with Iraq is negligable, especially when compared with other areas.

#11 03-21-2003, 04:24 PM

5000 Iraqi children die every month to starvation.

Saddam's secret police rape the children in front of their families to force families to spy on others.

Women are hung in public while menstruating to embarrass themselves and families.

People tongues are cut out while strapped to a street light and left to bleed to death.

The list goes on.

The original plan was to take out Saddam's Regime covertly, but France and company delay made that imposable.

And yes if you read a little you will find many terrorist links to the regime.

The regime could have given power to the people but they choose to allow innocent people to die.

#12 03-21-2003, 04:28 PM

Milling crowds of men and boys watched as the Marines attached ropes on the front of their Jeeps to one portrait and then backed up, peeling the Iraqi leader's black-and-white metal image off a frame. Some locals briefly joined Maj. David "Bull" Gurfein in a new cheer.

"Iraqis! Iraqis! Iraqis!" Gurfein yelled, pumping his fist in the air.

"We wanted to send a message that Saddam is done," said Gurfein, a New York native in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "People are scared to show a lot of emotion. That's why we wanted to show them this time we're here, and Saddam is done."

The Marines arrived in Safwan, just across the Kuwait border, after Cobra attack helicopters, attack jets, tanks, 155 mm howitzers and sharpshooters cleared the way along Route 80, the main road into Iraq (news - web sites).

Safwan, 375 miles south of Baghdad, is a poor, dirty, wrecked town pocked by shrapnel from the last Gulf war (news - web sites). Iraqi forces in the area sporadically fired mortars and guns for hours Thursday and Friday. Most townspeople hid, although residents brought forth a wounded little girl, her palm bleeding after the new fighting. Another man said his wife was shot in the leg by the Americans.

A few men and boys ventured out, putting makeshift white flags on their pickup trucks or waving white T-shirts out truck windows.

"Americans very good," Ali Khemy said. "Iraq wants to be free."

Some chanted, "Ameriki! Ameriki!"

Many others in the starving town just patted their stomachs and raised their hands, begging for food.

A man identifying himself only as Abdullah welcomed the arrival of the U.S. troops: "Saddam Hussein is no good. Saddam Hussein a butcher."

An old woman shrouded in black — one of the very few women outside — knelt toward the feet of Americans, embracing an American woman. A younger man with her pulled her away, giving her a warning sign by sliding his finger across his throat.

In 1991, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died after prematurely celebrating what they believed was their liberation from Saddam after the Gulf War. Some even pulled down a few pictures of Saddam then — only to be killed by Iraqi forces.

Gurfein playfully traded pats with a disabled man and turned down a dinner invitation from townspeople.

"Friend, friend," he told them in Arabic learned in the first Gulf War.

"We stopped in Kuwait that time," he said. "We were all ready to come up there then, and we never did."

The townspeople seemed grateful this time.

"No Saddam Hussein!" one young man in headscarf told Gurfein. "Bush!"

#13 03-21-2003, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by rsbiomedical

The regime could have given power to the people but they choose to allow innocent people to die.

Who was it who made the call to attack? Maybe some guy named George Bush?

#14 03-21-2003, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by AndrewK
Who was it who made the call to attack? Maybe some guy named George Bush?

Bill Clinton attacked Iraq do you have a problem with that?

Benzoman · #15 03-21-2003, 04:41 PM

Saddam learned his lesson in 1991. Had the UN (US) not imposed sanctions preventing him from selling all the oil he wanted and spending the money as he saw fit, then by now he would have bought kittens and snowcones for everyone!! Yeah, right!!

This post should be below the next one.