The Official Iraq War Thread...

[dansim]

relieving a little fustration

[cphilip]

A little reading to make you think and wonder if we had of done it back then?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919627,00.html

[pbzmag]

Around 11pm Pacific time, Coalition forces came under fire in Um Qasr. M1A1 Abrams tanks responded with machine gun fire and a few rounds from their main cannon. This is also the first live broadcast of a military fire fight. Um Qasr is an important site to the coalition forces. It will be used as a supply port for the rest of the forces deep inside Iraq. During one part of the fight, the reporter asked a NCO who were the tanks. The NCO replied, "Freindly."

[pbzmag]

A RAF aircraft may have been hit by a Patriot missle while returning from a mission. More here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=716&ncid=716

[1stdeadeye]

Here comes the French!

According to CNN reports:

France has deployed special military units that deal with the clean-up of WMD to Qatar. So much for their "Moral Stand"

[WARPED1]

I like how the protesters say "No WMD's were found!" So? Sadaam tortures children in front of thier parents, he administers acid baths, he has rape rooms. He needs to be wiped out, much like Hitler and his "regime"

[fire1811]

i just heard on fox news they announce that the Russians have been selling weapons, jaming equipment, and night vision goggles to iraq for over a year
grrrrrr

[Quiet]

I wouldn't worry about it Fire, the stuff probably doesn't work anyways.

[cphilip]

Warning I told you NOT to discuss the poltitic of it here. Just reporting is all.

Bad day with some US captives and what appears some of them were exicuted as well. Also battles heating up as we get closer to the heart of what they want to protect. We lost an additonal 10 Troops today in addition to those captured.

Everyone remember the worst of the fighting is still to come.

Then we have the one converted Muslim US Military man who turned on his own people and grenaded two tents and shot one Officer to death. He reportedly was againt the killing of Muslims and the war. He is in custody and faces charges.

NO reported WMD's found so far but...

this is NOT confirmed and Defense Dept will not confirm so it may be bogus but... Two news agencies are reporting it though. AP groups and Fox. Remains to be seen. Read below:

US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT


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Caroline Glick Mar. 23, 2003

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About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad.

One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration camps.

The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum.

It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to make it look like the surrounding desert.

Within minutes of our entry into the camp on Sunday afternoon, at least 30 Iraqi soldiers and their commanding officer of the rank of General, obeyed the instructions of US soldiers who called out from our jeep in loudspeakers for them to lie down on the ground, and put their hands above their heads to surrender.

Today's operation is the third engagement with Iraqi forces by the First Brigade of the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, since Saturday afternoon.

So far in the campaign, the brigade has suffered no losses. But two were wounded Saturday night in an ambush on the outskirts of As-Samwah in southern Iraq

This is also being reported on Fox News.

AGAIN NOT CONFIRMED BY DEFENSE DEPT!!!

[fire1811]

hey cphilip where did you hear that the us soilder gunned down the officer i have been watchin foxnews all day and they said it was grenades?

just wonderin
thanks

[HoppysMag]

Originally posted by fire1811
i just heard on fox news they announce that the Russians have been selling weapons, jaming equipment, and night vision goggles to iraq for over a year
grrrrrr

the russians have been selling stuff to anyone wuth the $ for like 20 yrs now



on another note some one said they executed POW'S, any truth to that? and that they were acting like they were surrendering w/ whit flags but then attacking, and that people in civilian cloths were attacking troops.if its true i say for now on every iraqi should be consisdered a hostile and dealt with accordingly

[1stdeadeye]

Originally posted by fire1811
hey cphilip where did you hear that the us soilder gunned down the officer i have been watchin foxnews all day and they said it was grenades?

just wonderin
thanks

He rolled the grenades into their tents and then shot at the officers as they stumbled from their tents afterward. The coward then and hid in a bunker! He will fry though! No civilian rights, just the Uniform Military Code of Justice.

[cphilip]

Yes. One Officer came out of the Tent to see where they had come from and he shot him dead with an M16. The one Officer that died was shot to death. Three grenades and two went off. Two different tents.

[cphilip]

Pentagon confirms it was a Chemical Plant and they are studying it. They are not confirming they were used for WMD at this time. It was concealed well and suspicious.

[silenttype]

Man did u see the footage of those guys hitting that building with that rocket,they were all cheering,it looks like some of them are enjoying it,Man what an adventure.
Those are some brave guys and gals,god bless em
They should have shot that traitor on the spot!!!