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pinkpops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:36 PM
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Reality check from ABC World News Tonight
Did I hear them say that the US will order all non-combatants out of Falluja prior to an attack? That would be over 200,000 refugees.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:38 PM
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1. Wha?? I thought they assured us that "Mission Accomplished..."
... vis-a-vis refugees...?
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theoceansnerves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:48 PM
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6. didn't you hear
that banner was there because the aircraft carrier had completed it's mission! it's all the commanding officer's fault for leaving that up there! :eyes:
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:39 PM
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2. non-combatants = women and children
the men will probably, once again, be forbidden to leave...
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ithacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:41 PM
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3. Sarajevo, Groznii (Chechnya) ...
This is what the US military has been reduced to by Shrub: pursuing the exact same tactics that earned Bosnian Serb and Russian armies sharp condemnation in their seiges and bombardments of Sarajevo and Groznii.
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:44 PM
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4. Non combatants? But if it is the end of combat operations in Iraq...
...there shouldn't be any combatants. Did I miss something?
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:46 PM
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5. Dropping Another Bomb?
This war is going to slow for the bastard. You watch and see.
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loudsue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:53 PM
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7. If they fucking DARE to slaughter the whole town,
it will be the END. I can't take it anymore.

NOT IN MY NAME, YOU ASSHOLES!!!!




NOT IN MY NAME!!!!



:kick:
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loudsue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:57 PM
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8. Kicking this .....too important to overlook....
:kick::kick::kick::kick:
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 08:59 PM
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9. I smell a couple of MOAB's
in Fallujah's future. Talk about your weapons of mass destruction. (They are only OK if they're ours) This admin just makes me sick.
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pinkpops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 09:00 PM
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10. Here's another reference, from the Washington Post
"If the situation comes to it, we will demand that the noncombatants leave the city," he said. "You've got tens of thousands of innocent people caught in the middle. If there was some simple way to remove them from the equation, it wouldn't take long."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33710-2004Apr22.html

(page 2)
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-04 11:45 PM
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11. same story popping up now on Yahoo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/a33710_2004apr22
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atre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-04 12:18 AM
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12. Why would the combatants agree to let the civilians leave?
Requiring them to stay gives them hostages and precludes the USA from fire-bombing Fallujah, using the "kill them all and let God sort it all out" tactic. Surely they aren't naive enough to think that we would "invade" and risk American lives. I am skeptical that this can be accomplished.
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