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Apache "shootdown" - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 7:26:23 PM
- I didn't see so much as a single bullet hole in it... - Larry J - 3/24/2003 7:39:32 PM
  - Laugh it up, farmers. - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 7:42:17 PM
    - Re: Laugh it up, farmers. - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 7:43:47 PM
      - Maybe. Would it be worth the extra risk to save a copter? (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 7:44:27 PM
        
        Depends on where it is in relation to our forces... - Larry J - 3/24/2003 7:46:55 PM
        
        Re: Too bad it can't self-destruct or be instructed to. n/t (n/t) - Marcia - 3/24/2003 9:00:29 AM
        
        Flying an aircraft in combat is dangerous enough - Larry J - 3/24/2003 2:20:15 PM
        
        Re: Too bad it can't self-destruct or be instructed to. n/t - SDG - 3/24/2003 10:52:54 AM
        
        Well if the Iraqi's keep shooting prisoners... - Scott - 3/24/2003 9:05:00 AM
- Update: We blew up the Apache, and the pilots are prisoners. - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 3:32:27 PM
- I am really dissapointed in CNN America - Justin Kelly - 3/24/2003 1:44:36 PM

We found a WMD plant... - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 4:55:30 PM
- You told *who* so? - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 3:13:27 PM
  - Re: You told *who* so? - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 5:18:46 PM
    - Thats patently false - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 5:34:51 PM
      - Again. Other than yourself, name one. - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 6:11:57 PM
        
        Robert's one. - Tony - 3/24/2003 7:21:24 PM
        
        Actually, tom - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 6:25:59 PM
- Waiting for the full story. I'm patient. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 5:46:08 PM
- Arab media is already saying it's a Zionist plot - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 5:33:54 PM
  - Arab media considers Kurds and Jews to be pests... - Scott - 3/23/2003 6:35:45 PM
- Don't go getting your panties all in a wad........ - Nah na na na nah - 3/23/2003 5:05:16 PM
  - C'mon Lindy, tonight's a night for celebrating....... - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 5:11:42 PM
    - Tonight's a night for celebrating?? - Lindy - 3/23/2003 5:45:01 PM

Darwin Award nominees - Matt Burley - 3/24/2003 5:51:24 PM
- Don't under-estimate the numbers. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/24/2003 6:20:01 PM
- It may have already started - Larry J - 3/24/2003 6:00:50 PM
  - More on that Syrian bus attack - Larry J - 3/24/2003 6:19:54 PM
    - I heard that we were bombing a bridge, and the bus got in the way. n/t (n/t) - alcaray - 3/24/2003 12:02:18 PM
      - That's what I heard, too - Larry J - 3/24/2003 2:35:21 PM

3 hour Apache Helicopter battle with Republican Guard - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 5:18:03 PM
- The sad thing is civilians will still die...Thanks to the RG's fondness of civilian human sheilds. - Scott - 3/23/2003 6:33:29 PM
  - Some of the media and public attitudes are bizarre when you compare current action to WWII. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 5:15:17 PM
    - Thank goodness the attitudes of some in the Press... - Larry J - 3/24/2003 6:05:57 PM
      - Re: attitudes, and your tax dollars really at work. - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 6:16:18 PM

Iraq's end game - Gary - 3/24/2003 5:03:05 PM
- Re: Iraq's end game - ebnelson - 3/24/2003 5:17:35 PM

Chem Weapons plant may not be what it seems - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 4:08:35 PM
- Re: Chem Weapons plant may not be what it seems - Larry J - 3/24/2003 4:18:28 PM
  - The camouflage and electric fences are also a bit hard to explain. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 4:40:35 PM

heheheheh - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 3:52:24 PM
- To bad they didn't redirect to a site showing Sadam being fed into a paper shredder - Scott - 3/24/2003 4:07:18 PM

US Troops Capture Iraqi Chemical Plant - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 8:48:05 PM
- US Troops Capture Iraqi Chemical Plant - CONFIRMED - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 1:36:11 PM
  - A 100 acre plant - FrankC - 3/23/2003 1:49:07 PM
- Re: US Troops Capture Iraqi Chemical Plant - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 1:35:15 PM
- They'd damned well better. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 9:27:37 AM
  - It's hard to believe there are people stupid enough to believe we can fake an entire factory... - Larry J - 3/23/2003 1:39:12 PM
  - I hate to make this grim observation - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 11:09:45 AM
    - When this photo was found in WWII... - Larry J - 3/23/2003 1:52:34 PM
    - Re: I hate to make this grim observation - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 11:29:45 AM
  - Backing water like hell already, aren't we? - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 11:05:00 AM
    - Well? - Bowser - 3/23/2003 11:16:40 AM
      - Re: Well, I believe the Kurds. - Marcia - 3/23/2003 11:36:27 AM
        
        How does that make your President an honest man? - Bowser - 3/23/2003 12:07:17 PM
        
        President - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 1:28:22 PM
        
        Get Real - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 4:43:48 PM
        
        Had a Republican congress during much of Clinton admin too - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 5:47:53 PM
        
        Yes, Perfect example of why US voters tend to split control - Mark Eby - 3/24/2003 1:33:08 PM
        
        It Doesn't, It Just Shows Your Blindness To The Evidence - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 12:45:34 PM
      - Speaking of lies.... - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 11:32:42 AM
        
        You really are the Truest of Believers, aren't you. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 12:01:08 PM
        
        RE: Aluminum Tubes - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 12:54:03 PM
      - Re: Well? - Buck Galaxy - 3/23/2003 11:29:22 AM
  - Indeed - YoursTruly - 3/23/2003 10:30:50 AM
    - Those damned dirty Jews... - Lee - 3/23/2003 4:23:41 PM
    - Re: Indeed...so you are just another internet wackjob. - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 11:27:15 AM
    - Yes the Jews are responisble for it all - Buck Galaxy - 3/23/2003 10:49:18 AM
      - Don't think so... - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 6:00:09 PM
        
        Hmmm... - Robert - 3/24/2003 10:57:43 AM
        
        Robert and I are in sync with strategies - Justin Kelly - 3/24/2003 12:52:22 PM
        
        You blew it - YoursTruly - 3/24/2003 3:50:38 PM
        
        Hmmm...so it seems. Moderator? What criteria are we going by? Just curious. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 6:23:16 PM
      - A lot of people headed for mental black hole brain implosion - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 11:11:23 AM
- More - US Central Command brief comment - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 9:03:55 AM

Some points that seem clear - ebnelson - 3/24/2003 11:05:26 AM
- Hello? It's been FIVE DAYS? (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/24/2003 3:33:40 PM
  - And we will do fine - ebnelson - 3/24/2003 3:45:15 PM
- Don't go wobbly on us - Larry J - 3/24/2003 2:47:53 PM
  - Never. - ebnelson - 3/24/2003 3:33:23 PM
- Re: Some points that seem clear - gbaikie - 3/24/2003 12:52:46 PM
- Re: Some points that seem clear - Robert - 3/24/2003 12:07:28 PM
- One more point: The danger of a strategy that is flexible - ebnelson - 3/24/2003 11:13:05 AM
  - I'm not sure it wasn't planned that way... - Scott - 3/24/2003 12:33:26 PM
  - Re: One more point: The danger of a strategy that is flexible - p - 3/24/2003 11:30:29 AM

reply to a href = http://www.habitablezone.com/currentevents/messages/44582.html this /a - Davin L. - 3/22/2003 8:13:17 PM
- Hmm, titles strip HTML, link in the body of this. - Davin L. - 3/22/2003 8:14:29 PM
  - Correct - Robert - 3/22/2003 11:00:07 AM
    - BTW - Davin CodeMonkey L. - 3/22/2003 11:40:21 AM
      - Re: BTW - Robert - 3/22/2003 12:12:17 PM
        
        Re: BTW - Davin L. - 3/22/2003 1:38:37 PM
- Re: reply - Tom Brosz - 3/22/2003 12:16:09 PM
  - Re: reply - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 3:50:48 PM
  - An elegant wiggle, tom, BUT PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION! - Davin L. - 3/22/2003 1:48:53 PM
    - Re: An elegant wiggle, tom, BUT PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION! - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 4:15:39 PM
      - Re: An elegant wiggle, tom, BUT PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION! - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 11:47:08 AM
        
        Are You Kidding Me? - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 12:20:19 PM
        
        No, are you kidding me? Please Don't put words in my mouth - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 1:51:12 PM
    - Re: Another answer to another part of the question (I think) - Tom Brosz - 3/22/2003 7:06:22 PM
    - Answer to part of the question - Tom Brosz - 3/22/2003 6:37:29 PM
      - Re: Answer to part of the question - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 4:09:52 PM
        
        Re: Answer - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 7:20:53 PM
        
        Agree With Davin Here - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 12:58:34 PM
        
        Re: Answer - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 11:45:26 AM
      - Terrorism and rights - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 11:55:36 AM
      - Re: Answer to part of the question - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 11:42:11 AM
        
        Stone Age - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 12:37:45 PM
        
        Re: Stone Age - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 1:59:51 PM
        
        Re: Stone Age - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 5:58:12 PM
        
        Re: Stone Age - Davin L. - 3/24/2003 3:25:24 PM
      - Nice post Tom! n/t (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 11:19:07 AM

Hosea - Bowser - 3/22/2003 8:11:02 PM
- You Got It Backwards - Mark Eby - 3/22/2003 1:33:29 PM
  - “There is of course the French appeasement/get in bed approach.” - Bowser - 3/22/2003 1:41:48 PM
    - Re: “There is of course the French appeasement/get in bed approach.” - Mark Eby - 3/22/2003 1:58:23 PM
      - US hypocrisy. - Bowser - 3/22/2003 2:10:25 PM
        
        Re: US hypocrisy. - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 8:42:42 PM
        
        Poor Past Practices - Mark Eby - 3/22/2003 2:16:03 PM
        
        That's "Does NOT mean it's too late" N/T (n/t) - Mark Eby - 3/22/2003 3:56:09 PM
- At least... - YoursTruly - 3/22/2003 9:14:20 AM
  - Protestors Support Dead Kids for Saddam Monuments & WMD - Mark Eby - 3/22/2003 1:44:40 PM
    - No hard evidence - YoursTruly - 3/22/2003 3:39:15 PM
      - Geez, I shot this hoary old lie to hell only last Tuesday - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 8:34:00 PM
      - Re: No hard evidence - Mark Eby - 3/22/2003 3:54:50 PM
        
        Re: Pictures of dead men - YoursTruly - 3/22/2003 5:26:25 PM
        
        You Might Want To Try Common Sense - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 3:19:39 PM
        
        Re:Common Sense - YoursTruly - 3/23/2003 5:30:42 PM
        
        And OJ was innocent too right? N/T (n/t) - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 6:11:55 PM
        
        Bullshit - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 6:11:06 PM
        
        Re: BS - YoursTruly - 3/23/2003 8:54:47 PM
        
        BS Again - Mark Eby - 3/24/2003 2:07:41 PM
        
        Re: BS - gbaikie - 3/23/2003 12:16:40 PM
  - You all will be up there with Charles Lindbergh and Joe Kennedy - ebnelson - 3/22/2003 9:49:56 AM

Attacking the outskirts of Baghdad and the RG - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/24/2003 11:11:48 AM
- Hopefully the air defenses are just about wiped out... - Scott - 3/24/2003 12:16:10 PM
  - Well, I wouldn't count on any surrender - Matt Burley - 3/24/2003 12:50:27 PM

My take on the anti-war rallies - Buck Galaxy - 3/22/2003 3:48:40 PM
- Re: Your "Take" - YoursTruly - 3/22/2003 4:07:02 PM
  - Protestors didn't speed the end of Vietnam - FrankC - 3/23/2003 3:41:58 PM
    - Parallel universes. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 4:04:45 PM
      - Antiwar protests - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 7:45:56 PM
        
        The war was done at that point. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 9:38:45 AM
      - LBJ lost New Hampshire and then quit the race - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 5:46:34 PM
      - Re: Parallel universes. - FrankC - 3/23/2003 4:47:28 PM
      - Re: Parallel universes. - Marcia - 3/23/2003 4:23:09 PM
        
        Cognitive dissonance - Bowser - 3/23/2003 4:54:10 PM
        
        Re: Cognitive dissonance - Marcia - 3/23/2003 6:16:05 PM
        
        Nicely put Marcia! - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 8:32:18 PM
        
        Re: Thanks, SDAI. - Marcia - 3/23/2003 10:06:41 AM
  - Correction - Robert - 3/22/2003 6:43:22 PM
    - A member of the "silent majority" speaks - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 8:17:18 PM
      - If you are silent then I am Queen of Rumania - Mary Anne - 3/23/2003 6:52:11 PM
        
        This antiwar movement WAS spawned by anticapitalist extremists - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 7:44:47 PM
        
        Tom, you by your own admission don't get out much - Mary Anne - 3/23/2003 9:46:03 AM
        
        I don't need to get out much - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 12:21:17 PM
        
        They aren't advertising themselves as an objective news agency - Mary Anne - 3/23/2003 1:34:06 PM
        
        WOW, great Mary Anne! (n/t) - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 2:56:22 PM
        
        Organizers - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 2:53:18 PM
        
        Ok...Let's look at protest. - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 10:48:38 AM
      - It's that 'conscience thing' - Robert - 3/23/2003 3:53:54 PM
      - PS If anyone needs someone to fill your head with garbage... - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 10:51:01 AM
        
        Excuse me, but your slip is showing - Mary Anne - 3/23/2003 2:20:39 PM
        
        I don't wear slips - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 3:29:15 PM
        
        You have an ax to grind - Mary Anne - 3/24/2003 11:56:37 AM

Shock! Islamists behaving badly again! - p - 3/24/2003 11:27:28 AM

Some more really good video footage - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/24/2003 10:56:08 AM

The thin varnish of hubris wears off. - ebnelson - 3/24/2003 10:43:04 AM

Tom: The 'coalition' - Robert - 3/23/2003 8:45:39 PM
- C'mon Robert you're a smart guy... - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/23/2003 12:02:25 PM
- Re: The 'coalition' - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 11:19:59 AM
  - Re: The 'coalition' - Robert - 3/23/2003 11:39:48 AM
    - Re: - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 1:09:48 PM
      - No problem - Robert - 3/23/2003 2:07:20 PM
- Re: Tom: The 'coalition' - Bowser - 3/23/2003 9:36:11 AM
  - Congratulations - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 10:02:55 AM
    - Heh, heh. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 11:21:59 AM
      - Focus - Robert - 3/23/2003 11:46:04 AM
        
        You're right. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 12:13:32 PM
        
        read your post on community - FrankC - 3/23/2003 12:29:39 PM
  - Nuances - Robert - 3/23/2003 9:57:33 AM
    - Re: Nuances - gbaikie - 3/23/2003 11:16:14 AM
      - Re: Nuances - Robert - 3/23/2003 11:46:56 AM

My predictions - LJ - 3/23/2003 8:24:02 PM

If the Iraqis hoped to discourage Americans - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 4:48:28 PM
- No end to Saddam's war crimes: US Marines suffer casualties in "fake surrender" - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 8:22:27 PM
  - Re: No end to Saddam's war crimes: US Marines suffer casualties in - Scott - 3/23/2003 3:48:48 PM
- Re: If the Iraqis hoped to discourage Americans - gbaikie - 3/23/2003 5:34:26 PM
  - Re: If the Iraqis hoped to discourage Americans - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 5:43:53 PM
- A serious mistake....... - RNE - 3/23/2003 9:52:27 AM

Range of missiles - Raoul - 3/23/2003 7:49:29 PM
- Re: Range of missiles - Tom Brosz - 3/23/2003 7:59:54 PM
  - Re: Range of missiles - Raoul - 3/23/2003 11:08:17 AM
  - They may not have 'em. - Bowser - 3/23/2003 9:46:42 AM

Interesting development in Irbil, in Northern Iraq - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 7:56:34 PM

"Pentagon totally unreliable as news source." - Bowser - 3/23/2003 6:19:13 PM
- Re: - Buck Galaxy - 3/23/2003 7:14:31 PM
- LOL!! "Arab news sources like Al Jazeera are more credible as indeed is the Iraqi Information Ministry" - Matt Burley - 3/23/2003 7:02:39 PM
- Common - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 6:57:58 PM
  - Maybe you missed it - YoursTruly - 3/23/2003 9:50:53 AM
    - Maybe You Should Read It - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 12:29:01 PM
      - Hmmm... - Robert - 3/23/2003 2:17:06 PM
      - That's pretty weak - YoursTruly - 3/23/2003 1:52:39 PM
        
        Gee could it be working in a hurry or reason to believe it?? - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 4:25:36 PM
    - Re: I thought I saw it. - Marcia - 3/23/2003 10:33:19 AM
- The report you quote is from Pravda. - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 6:36:40 PM
- Re:" unreliable"? thy too much information - Son of Dan - 3/23/2003 5:58:09 PM

Tornado down - Raoul - 3/23/2003 10:53:34 AM
- Iraqis are responsible for every injury and loss - ebnelson - 3/23/2003 5:59:11 PM
- Re: Tornado down - Bowser - 3/23/2003 3:55:34 PM
- Re: Tornado down - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 3:36:10 PM
  - Re: Tornado down - RNE - 3/23/2003 4:41:12 PM
- Probable IFF failure and a mid-air collision - Larry J - 3/23/2003 1:27:09 PM

For Those Equating Bush & Saddam - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 5:18:11 PM

Special Forces take out Al Qaida Terrorist Camp in Iraq - SDAI-Tech1 - 3/22/2003 8:17:01 PM
- Not Al Qaeda - Robert - 3/22/2003 10:57:21 AM
  - Re: Not Al Qaeda - Tom Brosz - 3/22/2003 12:04:33 PM
    - Re: Not Al Qaeda - Davin L. - 3/23/2003 2:51:29 PM
    - You really are making that up - Robert - 3/22/2003 12:20:44 PM
      - It's a pretty nasty radical Islamist group - Matt Burley - 3/22/2003 1:24:01 PM
        
        Re: It's a pretty nasty radical Islamist group - Robert - 3/23/2003 4:36:29 PM
        
        Re: - Marcia - 3/23/2003 4:02:42 PM
      - Cripes. Where am I going wrong here? - Tom Brosz - 3/22/2003 12:49:32 PM
        
        Re: Cripes. Where to begin? - Robert - 3/23/2003 4:28:01 PM
        
        Re: Cripes. Where to begin? - Marcia - 3/23/2003 5:00:14 PM
        
        Good point - Robert - 3/23/2003 2:24:06 PM
        
        It's Simple - Mark Eby - 3/23/2003 4:59:04 PM
        
        i.e., 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' - Robert - 3/23/2003 2:25:30 PM
    - Na you're making that up... - Anne leftleaner - 3/22/2003 12:10:46 PM
- Re: But -- there are no al-Qai'da in Iraq . . . - D. Spires - 3/22/2003 9:10:19 AM

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