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2004-06-23 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Sherry 2004-06-23 1:34:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's good work...but this is a bit of an overstatement!
that just a month ago seemed on the verge of conquering southern Iraq.

Posted by Anonymous5333 2004-06-23 5:17:32 PM|| 2004-06-23 5:17:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Anonymous5333, obviously you don't read the NYT or the LA Times. Nice to see things worked out the way the CPA said they would.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-23 5:40:46 PM|| 2004-06-23 5:40:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope that all of this is true, but I still wanna see Mucky's head on a pike.

Posted by Craig 2004-06-23 8:34:10 PM|| 2004-06-23 8:34:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I lik Mucky. Mucky mak funny comment sometime.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-06-23 8:48:44 PM|| 2004-06-23 8:48:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The First Armored Division is my old outfit (MOS131) and I'm a little skeptical of this report.

"... a four-tank squadron was rumbling toward the eastern city of Kut"

When I was a member of that division I was in a three tank SECTION. As I remember, and I could be wrong, American armored outfits don't have squadrons. I think the British call them squadrons.

"Then an 18-tank battalion entered Karbala..."

Eighteen tanks is hardly a battalion. That number is closer to a platoon. Minor mistakes for a civilian I admit but, if the reporter can't get the basic facts right, it gives me pause to question the whole article.
Paul Wolfowitz said recently that the reporters in Iraq are afraid to move so they stay in Baghdad and make up rumors. This may be the case. I'll wait for more confirmation before I get too excited over this. If true, it is one more source of pride in having been a member of "Old Ironsides".

Posted by Larry Everett 2004-06-23 9:38:49 PM|| 2004-06-23 9:38:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 al Sadr has discovered a fundemental truth about democracy: dead constituents don't vote .... except in Chicago.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-23 10:02:29 PM|| 2004-06-23 10:02:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 As expected; he'll be the joker in this card game! His end game will be to stir civil war after the handover; within the next 3 years. His goal is to "unite" the Iraqi Islamic sympathizers with the rule of Iran to formulate a defacto 'Super State'!Should he survive, of course and banking on inaction from Israel (interceding into Iranian airspace!!)

Posted by smn 2004-06-23 11:20:15 PM|| 2004-06-23 11:20:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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