nope said the Air attack will be shorter probably and that they will try to do the least amount of collateral damage as possible ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Townend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: RE: WOW?
Are they not going to just carpet bomb iraq then ? -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 14:19 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW? Sure they know what they are doing i'm just saying people are goign to die You can have flash bangs and ultrasound technology to tell you who and where someone is in a room but still you are going to loose people which is what is sad. But then again maybe they will all surrender and we'll have light casualties. I hope for the best i dont want our guys to die but i guess we gotta do it now and its time to suck it up but still doesnt make it any less uneasy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:05 AM Subject: RE: WOW? But we have learned a lot sense those days, I think we are better prepared to go room to room. The training that goes in to the urban fighting is fairly intense, and these guys know what they are doing. > -----Original Message----- > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:55 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WOW? > > yes, but the coalition forces didn;t go as far as Bagdad in 91. > > w > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 March 2003 13:44 > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > The same comments about room-to-room fighting were made about the action > in > 1991 and that never came to fruition. I'm guessing that some actions have > already started or will start before the 48 hours has elapsed. > > Also, I want to thank whoever said this: > >>However now that we are there, now that > >>the decision has been made, we need to stop debating this as a country > and > >>support our troops. > > Enough of us (myself included) on this list are veterans and know the > definite need for support from home. Pray if you do that, send energies > if > you do that, but whatever you do, show those abroad your support. > > I'm going to be talking to a few teacher friends of mine about having > their classes do an Any Soldier letter writing campaign. That's where > kids write > a letter to a soldier and they get sent in bulk. They're placed where the > serviceperson can get to them, and if they want to reply they can. > > Until Later! > Hatton > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:12 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: WOW? > > > > > > huh tractor tell us more? > > > > > > Yea i know i find it crazy that we broadcast all this crap i mean we > > basically gave saddam 48 hour notice thats crazy now he knows for sure > its > > on and he can hit first or do something else nasty. I would have > > prefered if we just do it and then find out later we started its > > hard to keep secrets in > > todays world i guess at least secrets like a war and such :). And i > think > > the Generals are going to be in for a big suprise i mean urban fighting > as > > you probably know is still pretty much the same as it was in WWII & WWI > it > > sucks our technology is way less of a factor in street to street > fighting. > > Does anyone have to look back to stalingrad when the stupid germans had > to > > try and take the city street by street? I mean its not going to be > > the same type disaster but just to show the point that urban > > fighting is going to > > take alot out of the troops. Maybe i could be wrong maybe we'll just > sweep > > through and kick ass without many losses but for all our technology > > you have guys fighting room to room in a building you can run into > > ambushes you > can > > run into things where our standoff weapons don't matter. > > > > Oh well i wish them all the best of luck, i hope the bonehead doesn't > send > > too many of my friends and family to their deaths. My old boss if a > > FAC with a Marine Regiment who is on the move this morning. He's a > > major now and they > > pulled him from Inactive Reserves to come up and take over a FAC job, he > > used to be a chinook jockey but in Gulf War 1 he got pulled to be a FAC. > > Hopefully he is going to be alright, sitting in an Abrams is probably a > > pretty safe place about now. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:00 AM > > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > > > > T minus 48 hours (from 8:00 PM last night) until we take the gloves off. > > > > Kind of disturbing really. I mean the whole idea of fighting a war > > this way is really alien to me. We were always taught that force > > protection and not > > letting anyone know who what where or when were very important. I mean > as > > it sits now you can go in any major news outlet's web site and get > > an order of battle for our forces, locations, key officers. It's > > insane from an > > intelligence perspective. > > > > Another thing that bothered me was what some of the talking heads > > had to say about the coming conflict. They had a retired general on > > NBC right > after > > his speech who didn't think that the coming battle was any big deal. He > > though that we would just sweep right through Iraq and be done with it. > > Guess he never went on a patrol in a city. > > > > Don't misconstrue this to mean that I am against this action > > completely. I have some issues with it (most notably that no war is > > being declared, and I > > don't think that congress has the constitutional ability to hand off > that > > responsibility to the president). However now that we are there, now > that > > the decision has been made, we need to stop debating this as a country > and > > support our troops. > > > > BTW how has the commute been this morning for all the DC members? All > the > > roads around here are closed down for the moron on the tractor at > > the mall. I just wonder why they haven't tazed the kid and pulled > > him off the tractor. > > > > Tim > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:11 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > > > > what did hw say, i missed it > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 18 March 2003 12:08 > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: WOW? > > > > > > I come in this morning and see NO topics about dubyas talk last > > night? Man i was waiting and waiting and then finally there it was > > what i knew would pop > > out....the hitler reference :) > > > > > > -- > > Bill Wheatley > > Senior Database Developer > > Macromedia Advanced Coldfusion 5 Developer > > Ediets.com > > ICQ - 417645 > > Aim - Bill Ediets > > 954-360-9022 x159 > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
