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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:40 AM Original message |
Baghdad offensive to begin: U.S. officers-unlike anything this city has seen. |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. oh...gheeze.... |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Fallujah Redux. Algiers Redux... n/t |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 06:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
61. Hue 1968 Redux . . . n/t |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 03:22 AM Response to Reply #61 |
69. That's the Vietnam one I was trying to remember. Thanks. n/t |
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grytpype (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
3. The insurgents and militias will just disappear until the raids are over. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
52. We shouldn't, either. We're in the wrong. So, so in the wrong. |
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fooj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. More war crimes? |
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kedrys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. 'scuse me while i go over here and puke |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
6. OH DAMN! Are we back to shock and awe AGAIN? n/t |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:53 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. No, it's supposed to be on the Q T. |
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az chela (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Well we know now!!!!!! |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
7. Great! They announce this and whip up more dissent in Iraq... |
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Contrite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Like schoolyard bullies. |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 02:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
47. Its a lost cause |
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Olney Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. Are we winning yet? |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
9. Something smells very wrong |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
53. Way to use an obscure reference! |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
10. More blood soon to be spilled |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
12. Before was just a dry run. Now, we really mean it. |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 03:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
48. Another O.J. type of offense will show those bastards who's |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. Unlike anything they've seen? More than "Shock & Awe". . . |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 06:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
63. Given that almost every utterance out of their mouths is a lie, I suspect |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
15. And when this "surge" fails to stabilize Baghdad, then what? |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 09:47 AM Response to Reply #15 |
32. Recall that Condi would NOT answer that question. They make it up as |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. Is this what happened in Vietnam? |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:18 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. It was called pacification back then |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. This is sad ..... |
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junior college (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
18. Urban guerilla warfare is totally psycho |
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ninkasi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
19. This means that |
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az chela (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I have never been so ashamed about anything as I am about this |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #23 |
36. we once should for something now we are a terrorist state |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 02:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. That's what the US might do; with the civil war raging, who knows what else |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
54. Prison if they're LUCKY. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
20. The US military did this thing in Hue, destroy the city in order to save it |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
41. 'n more boys 'n girls "$acrificed" for helliburton&Co'$ bottom line |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
24. Is the Dick wagging the dog? |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
25. Stabilize Baghdad? |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:44 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Bingo. Population reduction. |
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maryallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. When NOBODY OCCUPIES a city ... |
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Pachamama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. And I guess BushCo. thinks that ruling through terror will make democracy blossom too... |
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nicknameless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
26. Spending munitions = war profits |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
57. Why? You don't think those 500 lb bombs are going to blow up themselves, do ya? n/t |
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nicknameless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:14 AM Response to Reply #57 |
67. Heh. Don't give the cabal any ideas. |
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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 06:39 AM Response to Original message |
29. BBC: US urged to accelerate Iraq plan |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 07:06 AM Response to Original message |
30. Sigh. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 07:21 AM Response to Original message |
31. And what will we get? |
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jakem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. What is it going to take- |
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Pachamama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #31 |
44. Don'tcha know? We "Get" Democracy there and we get to protect ourselves by "fightin them there, so |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
35. more dead and more ethic cleansing |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
37. So did we build a whole bunch of new prisons over there, |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
38. "a couple hundred percent" is not "an order of magnitude" |
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slowry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:18 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. Wondered the same thing. |
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classysassy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
39. More shock and oh my |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
40. RIP to the hundreds of dead men, women and babies |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
45. Let me predict the outcome... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
46. 'Shock and awe' maybe? |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:29 PM Response to Reply #46 |
51. Followed by unrelenting violence. Yes, that will be quite unlike anything seen before |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:39 PM Response to Reply #51 |
56. Dammit! Where's our Representatives?!? |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
49. Fallujah IV |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
50. Lidice, anyone? |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
55. Great. More kicking in front doors of homes ... |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
58. Shock and Awe... |
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progressivebydesign (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
59. Then what? What does this achieve? |
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durtee librul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 05:44 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Any one wanna take bets |
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La_Fourmi_Rouge (878 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
62. Baghdad = Algiers on steroids |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 07:34 PM Response to Reply #62 |
64. Baghdad = Vietnam on crack! n/t |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-05-07 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
65. This guy doesn't have a clue. |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 01:06 AM Response to Original message |
66. I see dead people. |
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 02:37 AM Response to Original message |
68. So it begins |
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pat_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-06-07 04:59 AM Response to Original message |
70. Bush's "war against all" is "a blunder of Hitlerian proportion" --Col. Macgregor |
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