streetsoldier wrote:From the upper floors of the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, Sky News and a German reporter can see U.S. tanks of the 3ID across the Tigris River some 500 m away; at the same time, FoxNews' Greg Kelly is reporting FROM the Presdiential Palace where the tanks are now "based"...and is considering going into the palace to Saddam's bedroom, turning on the gold faucets and taking a shower! :o
The 3ID column is not a "recon in force", but the first occupation well inside downtown Baghdad; but "if they have to move, they will".
Let's see the Iraqi Information Ministry "spin" THIS...LOL
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!UP YOURS SADDAM!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hoisting the Georgia Bulldog mascot flag instead of the Stars and Stripes was a brilliant move politically.Outstanding humor.How 'Bout Dem Dawgs?
The Brits are contacting all Iraqi..ahem..'leaders' in Al Basrah to capitulate NOW!That means...either give up or the wrath of Maggie Thatcher will be brought down on them.Even the Islamic Clerics issued a Fatwah yesterday urging all resistors to cooperate with Coalition Forces.THAT in itself should tell us how much Saddam was hated.I wonder how Chirac feels this evening or his cohort in Berlin?Hmmmm.
Meantime..the Kurds have been kicking butt..75K of them..moving thru Mosul and takin' names.They are about an hour N of the 'Big B' and and are involved in a massacre of what is left of Iraqi resistance.
There is much to accomplish now within the City,as it is quite dangerous in close shot quarters.A-10s from Tucson are zeroing in on Iraqi Tank Divisions to the NE of the City..any movement,and they are Toast.
Iraqi Battalions now are located on some bridges leading INTO the City from the NE and South.Talk about bass ackwards!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is too much fun to watch.
