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To: Smiling Bob who wrote (6649)11/19/2003 1:15:31 PM
From: Smiling Bob  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 19256
 
Go George Go
That'll teach em'
And makes for good headlines too!

U.S. Drops One-Ton Bombs on Iraq Targets
(AP) - The U.S. Air Force used some of the largest weapons in its inventory to attack targets in central Iraq in an escalating crackdown on suspected guerrilla strongholds, the military said Wednesday. A pair of 2,000-pound satellite-guided bombs were dropped late Tuesday near Baqouba, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, on "camps suspected to have been used for bomb-making," said Maj. Gordon Tate, a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division. More...



To: Smiling Bob who wrote (6649)4/15/2004 6:16:04 AM
From: Smiling Bob  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 19256
 
During Bush's press conference, why did the reporter allow Bush to gloss over his indiscriminate use of the term "coalition?" No follow-up.
As usual, other members of the "coalition" have sent token numbers of troops in.
The reporter rightly called it window dressing, and Bush merely responded that it was the intent that mattered. They may back us in spirit, but the US is losing many lives being involved in something that started out as a Bush family problem.
We entered Iraq under false pretenses.
Using 9-11 as a flash point, Bush lied to a wounded and vulnerable audience, and now tries to pass it off as a simple case of relaying bad intelligence to the American people and to the world.
Why are we not expending these resources going after the one who admitted to attacking us instead of breeding more terrorists?