**OFFICIAL WAR THREAD** 7th Calvary fights off Iraqi attack; Bush seeks 75 billion for war

[Balthazar]

Definitely need to change the thread title, that is about as inaccurate as it gets!

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: VBboy
The topic is a little odd, "50 casualties, many dead".
"Casualty" implies "dead", so this is somewhat redundant.

No it does not.

Casualty:

An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
One injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.
One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy. Often used in the plural: Battlefield casualties were high.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: etech

Originally posted by: Krugger
City: Toronto

Country: Canada

oh... he's canadian. i thought he was from this country. not that all canadians are stupid or don't know what they're talking about, i would never imply that. yet, the fact that he's not from the US changes slightly how i view his posts. i can't wait till someone finds conclusive evidence of WMD and i hope that plant is the first sign. please cnn/msnbc/pentagon confirm it soon...
-Krugger

He sounds like a Hagbard reincarnation.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[SportSC4]

i just saw the al-jazeera video. i will try not to get technical unless someone wants to.
if you thought them humliating POWs was the worst of what they have done to soldiers, then you're wrong. 2 injured soldiers were executed (shot ~2m away to center of forehead, they were injured and probably didn't want to give them medical treatment), 1 was beaten (bruising in the facial region and under arm, was alive when it happened). I don't feel like re-watching it right now, but all my statements are based on how the injuries look (and would look if they were dead or alive when it happened).

as someone said, this is war. war isn't clean. they are not following geneva convention protocols and i hope we don't when we find their leadership and members of their republican guard.

 

[LocutusX]

Originally posted by: LH

We do not use Napalm since it is more or less "illegal" at this point, but we do have the MOAB

The US never signed the treaty that banned napalm. Nor did we sign the treaty that banned land mines.

Perhaps not, but it still doesn't change the fact that you don't use it anymore.

 

[Bignate603]

Wow, we're being aggressive about this conflict. Unlike any other war in recent memory we're going at this balls to the wall, willing to take losses. There was nothing in my lifetime that we got involved in that the leadership was willing to risk so many lives on. There's got to be something that made us do this and need to do it FAST.

 

[olds]

New CD release.

 

[VFAA]

The Iraqi Disinformed Minister

will shortly be on TV again... What is he gonna brag about this time?

 

[VFAA]

Looks like it's gonna be Saddam on TV instead (maybe the Disinformed Minister is getting informed

)...

 

[jaeger66]

supposed to be Saddam himself making a historic speech...

 

[syyid]

Some more pix of the Northern Iraq bombings.

Collateral Damage

 

[Krugger]

^^^
warn ppl before you post a link to pictures like that. sheesh.
-Krugger

 

[Bluga]

FOX just reported that the southern Ramallah oil fields are "no longer secure". Very intense fighting at this hour... still in the south at Al Nasariya--------------Sandstorms expected in about 24 hours..winds to 50 MPH possible.........Very bad for Apache choppers and most things that move....Iraqi TV just said Saddam to make speech soon !

 

[VFAA]

Originally posted by: syyid
Some more pix of the Northern Iraq bombings.

Collateral Damage

Dude, WTF?? Warn ppl next time before you post crap like this!

 

[AntiWar]

Don't know what you are talking about, just living in Canada a canadian does not make.

 

[AntiWar]

Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence, is also a card holding member of Israeli governing party of Likud, which makes you think..... 10 billion dollars paid to Israel by the USA last week, I hope the taxpayers get the big bang for their buck.

Now this - Russian arms dealers have equipped Iraq with supplies and electronic jamming equipment that could throw U.S. planes and bombs off course http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81917,00.html

Of-course a misguided bomb is a just as dangerous as a well targetted bomb, only the misguided bomb is more dangerous for the civilians.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: AntiWar
Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence, is also a card holding member of Israeli governing party of Likud, which makes you think..... 10 billion dollars paid to Israel by the USA last week, I hope the taxpayers get the big bang for their buck.

Now this - Russian arms dealers have equipped Iraq with supplies and electronic jamming equipment that could throw U.S. planes and bombs off course http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81917,00.html

Of-course a misguided bomb is a just as dangerous as a well targetted bomb, only the misguided bomb is more dangerous for the civilians.

Ummm, actually, 9 billion was loan guarantees.

 

[Babbles]

Is it me, or is this Saddam that is giving some speech now does not look like the same Saddam that was on a few days back.

 

[VFAA]

Originally posted by: AntiWar
Don't know what you are talking about, just living in Canada a canadian does not make.

wtf?

ooh yeah, Saddam is on TV!

 

[ViRGE]

No glasses this time?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
No glasses this time?

Lasik eye surgery?

Wazzup with that bird flashing everyone?

 

[deftron]

From what he is saying, it's definitely live..

It's weird that the angle keeps switching...

From one angle they showed, it looked like he might be in a wheelchair.

 

[VFAA]

So much for his speech...

"God is great. God is great. USA and England are evil. We are winning!"

Say something else for once

...

 

[SherEPunjab]

Originally posted by: VFAA
So much for his speech...

"God is great. God is great. USA and England are evil. We are winning!"

Say something else for once

...

he's trying to galvanize support with the Muslim community

 

[Chris A]

His taped speech offered no proof that he is alive. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.