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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:45 PM
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Wow, 4 guys (Including a teenager) fought for 6 hours against 200 guys
That's right, according to the news 4 people; the Saddam Brothers, a bodyguard, and a 14 year old son. They fought for six hours with 200 members of the 101st Airborne Division. Huh?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:46 PM
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1. tough kid
I cant even run a lap or so around the track without feeling tired. This really proves something that the guerillas wont give up. Like the 101 is one of our best units and Bush said this was gonna be a cakewalk yeah right.
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zizzer Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:50 PM
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2. I may burn in hell or Texas for this but...
Remember the Allamo!

I wonder what sort of folk stories will arise from this pile of ashes.

Zizzer
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RedSox02 Donating Member (804 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:51 PM
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3. Um none
Uday and Qusay aren't anybody's heroes.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:54 PM
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5. Thats why they were on the lame
for Four Months nobody liked them!
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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:53 PM
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4. Well..."fought" could mean alot of things..
maybe the 101st unit was trying to take them alive or somthing, so didnt call in an airstrike....need to know more about this engagement.
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ParanoidPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 03:59 PM
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6. Hmmm, surrounded, outgunned and outnumbered 50 to 1....
....and they couldn't just wait them out and take them into custody? :shrug:

I would think it would have gone a long way towards improving the administrations credibility and intelligence to do everything in their power to keep them alive and bring them to trial!

Either those troops were in a real hurry to do something more important or they were feeling really threatened by the four of them! :(
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Vitruvius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:02 PM
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7. But if they'd been taken alive, they could have talked
their dealings with the Reagan-Bu$h administration. Including purchases of CBW weaponry from the Reagan-Bu$h administration. So they had to be killed -- to shut their mouths for good.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 08:49 PM
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9. Hard to walk when you been dead for 3 months in the
freezer on an aircraft carrier, thawed out and placed somewhere
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pfitz59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 10:39 PM
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10. I go with freezer burns.......
Timing is too suspect!
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-03 04:35 PM
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8. Perhaps the commander of the troops was being cautious
in order to keep his men alive.
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