U.S. Forces Launch Operation in Baghdad

[UpInArms]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20031112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blasts

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S.-led coalition forces launched a military operation in Baghdad late Wednesday, targeting a facility used by insurgents and setting off explosions that reverberated through the Iraqi capital.

"The facility is a known meeting, planning, storage and rendezvous point for belligerent elements currently conducting attacks on coalition forces and infrastructure," the Pentagon (news - web sites) said in a statement from Washington.

"The destruction of this structure will deny enemy forces any use of it in the future."

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[wtmusic]

1. Let's pound those biaches into submission!

Then they won't be pissed at us anymore! :silly:

[underpants]

2. This statement is nothing but shear genius

"The destruction of this structure will deny enemy forces any use of it in the future."

[Walt Starr]

7. "Enemy forces" the language has changed again

No longer are they terrorists. They are "enemy forces".

The Mission has, indeed, resumed.

[Gin]

20. No shit Sherlock....but...they will have other places from which to fight.

what's the answer....bomb the whole city? Oh yes.. I forgot..that is the cockroaches idea.

[Guaranteed]

3. Yup, Operation "Just Like Vietnam" underway! nt

[underpants]

4. Do you think you used enough dynamite there Butch?

[Richardo]

12. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Great! :thumbsup:

[Journeyman]

5. Whew! We destroyed their clubhouse. . .

now maybe we can get back to work "building a democracy." What say we raise the money for it by putting on a show? Judy can sing, Mickey can dance, and Georgie can dress up in funny clothes. Oh, the world is good and happy today!

[grytpype]

6. Translation....

"The destruction of this structure will deny enemy forces any use of it in the future."

Translation: we blew up an empty building.

Guess they'll have to find a new place to meet. Think of the inconvenience!!!!

[CaptainClark23]

8. right.

"The facility is a known meeting, planning, storage and rendezvous point for belligerent elements currently conducting attacks on coalition forces and infrastructure," the Pentagon (news - web sites) said in a statement from Washington.

"The destruction of this structure will deny enemy forces any use of it in the future."


If it was so well fecking known, why wasn't it shut down earlier and who the feck ARE these enemy forces you can't seem to identify?!?!

oh man, I'm going for a walk....these lying treasonous bastards are getting to me.

[54anickel]

9. 2000 lb bombs -kinda overkill for a clubhouse, but then again

that 87billion probably provided the plenty of macho toys to play with again.

[lebkuchen]

10. Operation Grasping at Straws

What one is reduced to when one has no specific plan.

[truthisfreedom]

13. operation down in the polls

when doing anything is better than looking like you don't know what to do.

[belle]

16. Operation Whack-A-Mole (tm)

[Bridget Burke]

11. So, when that building is destroyed....

They'll find another building. Then the new one will be destroyed.

How long until Baghdad is out of buildings?

[kayell]

DOD mastermind

Oh, wait, we could have just watched that building and maybe caught some of the "bad guys" and maybe like interrogated them or something...but ya know, this was kinda more fun.

[DuctapeFatwa]

14. The purpose of the Crusade is to kill Muslims. The regime is doing that

This will be perceived as positive news by the American voting class, who have an unslakable thirst for Muslim blood.

[54anickel]

15. Sure seems that way, check out the stock market!

[Dhalgren]

17. I am afraid that you are right.

The American public, for what ever reason, has a tunnel-vision thing going on in regards to killing Muslims. It's all that they want to see and hear about. If George can kill enough of them, he will be elected president in '04. Sad but, I think, true.

[tom_paine]

18. Operation "Love those Liberators, damnit"

(or we'll kill you)

[Copperred]

19. time to stay home...no one will trust us for a very long time

the ONLY way to win the war on terror... i repeat THE ONLY WAY...

is to incite and support true democratic revolutions in countries of risk.....iraq could have been a shining example of that....however it is what it is now....and NOTHING will change that...the Arabs rightfully hate blind Christian white Americans who obey their masters... progressive forces in the US no matter how hard we try, are going to find it near impoossible to beat the military/media complex unless it is done in a truely American way.... any takers?

as to other countries we have a current chance in helping indigenous elements pull off true democratic reovlutions, u have Pakistan of which half should be rejoined with Afghanistan, Iran which has alot of democrats waiting in teh wings, and others.......but it will take a brain to do these things... A BRAIN... the answer is not to unilaterally invade any of these countries.

this war has been lost...and it's not going to be quite so easy to wash our hands of it like vietnam...the fallout will be much bigger in many other ways than just loss of innoncence an pride and for a very long time to come.... these are not veitcong people...ur talking 1.5 billion Nuslims with lots of money and trusted friends from Moscow to Bejing to the EU. Furthermore, they actually are fighting for their own relative liberty from the USofA...sadly they arnt ones to uphold it for others (islamic facism sucks just as much as what we have been up to)....but then again...that is just like us.

no doubt the islamic world is full of tyrants and military regimes, and many of the people under their rule would like to revolt up against them....however we dont seem to see the reason in actually taking the time to do it right and working and growing these englighted pockets of democratic pluristic light....

"there is only one way, the right way"... -Wife of the DNC Chairman from a long time ago.

sadly it appears america has truly duped itself, while leading the rest of the world to see nothing but fraud.

smart people, and to think I'm one of them....
ohioboy

[Jacobin]

23. You can't impose democracy on a country

It has to struggle for and want it.

They want us out of their country.

[54anickel]

21. CNN calling it Operation Iron Hammer.....

apparently blocked from our view by the reinstitution of the iron curtain. How else can you explain all this time of only happy happy joy joy news suddenly followed by THIS.
I am just getting sooooo pissed.

[htuttle]

22. Do they have a snazzy logo up yet?

They usually seem to have them done within a minute of the 'Operation...' being named. Did they focus group the name?

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. My, my

so it is 1923 all over again...

Quick somebody ship Wolfowitz a CONPREHENSIVE history of Iraq, not
the editied version at the schools, a comprehensive one

Tell him to read about that revolt before he burns the book

Oh and this is not Nam, it is 1923 all over agai, but keep the
morning in saigon theme going. Muricans will not get it if we
start the drumbeat of they revolted against the brits too...

[VolcanoJen]

25. Dupe... locking

Let's keep our LBN discussion about the return of major combat operations consolidated into one thread, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=215250&mesg_id=215250

UpInArms, it would be very helpful if you could post your link in the thread above as an "UPDATE." Very good information in that link.

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
DU Moderator