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2003-04-15 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-04-15 11:18 am|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to rent Hot Shots! Part Deux.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-04-15 11:41:32|| 2003-04-15 11:41:32|| Front Page Top

#2 MO-ab! MO-ab! MO-ab! No-A(ra)b.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-15 11:43:42|| 2003-04-15 11:43:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep, a desert fortress and a MOAB would be the perfect pairing. :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-15 12:35:06|| 2003-04-15 12:35:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah yes, the sleepy hamlet of Al Hawijah. You sure that's not a suburb of Damascus?

Posted by RW 2003-04-15 12:39:22|| 2003-04-15 12:39:22|| Front Page Top

#5 A desert fortress is exactly the kind of tale you tell the people when they catch you slipping out of town in the middle of the night with all your valuables. Fight on, delay them while we prepare the defenses at the, ah, ah, desert fortress.

Posted by Yank 2003-04-15 12:53:01|| 2003-04-15 12:53:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Desert Fortress?

Is this like the Mountain Redoubt that Hitler claimed in Bavaria, just before he bit the dirt in the face of Soviet tanks in Berlin?

Posted by OldSpook 2003-04-15 14:14:56|| 2003-04-15 14:14:56|| Front Page Top

#7 C'mon--they didn't lug the MOAB all the way over there just to bring it back! We all know the military is going to want to test every newer conventional weapon in the arsenal before the shooting stops.

If not in Iraq, then perhaps the appropriate situation will present itself in Afghanistan. But I expect the brass is eagerly looking for an appropriate target to field test the newest Bad Boy.

Posted by Dar 2003-04-15 15:29:19|| 2003-04-15 15:29:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps they could "field test" that MOAB in Damascus! I hear they have a small problem with terrorists setting up training camps there, and I'm very SURE the Syrian government would appreciate our help in stamping those out!

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-04-15 17:04:58|| 2003-04-15 17:04:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Cheese, it's Fort Zinderneuf!...

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-15 17:44:00|| 2003-04-15 17:44:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Where are Saddam's doubles hiding? I rather believe that Saddam made it to Moscow.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-04-15 18:10:57|| 2003-04-15 18:10:57|| Front Page Top

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