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#323. To: All (#320)

``What you have is the making of a humanitarian catastrophe,'' said Sid Balman, spokesman for InterAction, an umbrella group of 165 relief organisations.

Baghdad went dark on Thursday for the first time since the war began on March 20, just as spearhead troops of America's 3rd Infantry Division closed in on the international airport on the capital's south-western outskirts.

U.S. officials denied targeting the electric grid. ``We didn't do it. It's as simple as that,''' said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, chief spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Qatar.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:01:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#324. To: All (#323)

Asked if he believed the price increases were a result of the halt in the oil imports from Iran, Tunc stated “what is its benefit? Why the measure has been taken? The energy minister should give a satisfying response to the nation. If they (the price hikes) are a result of this halt in imports from Iran, why did Turkey joined the move? What will be the benefit for Turkey? Because, as you know, relations between countries are based on national interests and reciprocity.”

“We used to talk of zero problem with neighbors, but we have ended up in having problems with all of them. Why we came to this point? None of us know. We don’t know what would be the results. We, as the BBP and the Turkish nation, want to know about this,” he concluded."

See what happens when you side with Israel?

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:03:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#325. To: All (#324)

struggles amid continued weaknesses in Europe and the broader economic downturn.

Except for Israel:

Israel plans sovereign wealth fund - FT.com - Financial Times www.ft.com › WorldCached

Feb 19, 2012 – Israel has revealed plans to set up a new sovereign wealth fund, which will be ... weather the global financial crisis better than most other western economies. ... The broad financial goals of the fund, however, will be set by a ...

Israel-Concluding Statement of the 2012 Article IV Consultation ... www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2012/021312.htmCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Feb 13, 2012 – Israel's economy remains strong. Output fell for only two quarters during the "Great Recession", then ... The shekel is now broadly consistent with fundamentals and international reserves are appropriate by most measures. 2.

How is this possible from a desert state with no water and no energy.

That exports nothing but citrus and children.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:07:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#326. To: All (#325) (Edited)

David Bloom/NBC with the 3/7 Cavalry 3rd Infantry Division.

Dies April 6, 2003 somewhere near the Baghdad Airport.

Specialist Donald S. Oaks, Jr., died April (?) 2003, Delta Co., 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:09:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#327. To: All (#326)

Battle of Baghdad Airport April 3-8 2003

"You might now remember that on the night before the Battle of Baghdad began Saddam had promised us an attack… Well, he kept his promise. Friday night at 8:30 p.m. (Central), I was watching CNN showing the predawn of Saturday 5:30 morning half-way around the world in Baghdad…

All at once the skyline of the besieged city erupted with the flash and report of sustained explosions. The CNN people (Aaron Brown and Fredricka Whitfield) reacted with surprise, saying that U.S. public affairs hadn’t alerted them that there would be a major fire mission tonight. I immediately became anxious, knowing it exceedingly unlikely that public affairs hadn’t contacted affected media about a major fire mission in a choreographed war. “It probably wasn’t us doing the firing,” I thought.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:11:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#328. To: All (#327)

" In the next few minutes CNN’s reporter Walter Rodgers, embedded with the 3/7 Cavalry, attempted to make a report from the Baghdad Airport. Rodgers’ voice was indistinguishable because of the extreme background noise of artillery impacting around him, automatic small arms fire striking his vehicle and the shouts of the soldiers inside. It was the fog of war, no doubt about it. Aaron Brown offered no explanation of the noise, merely stiffly saying that the network was having technical difficulties.

Thankfully, Walter Rodgers’ luck held. A half hour later Fredericka and Aaron were off the clock and Larry King Live carried an interview between Rodgers and Lt. Col. Terry Ferrell – the commander of the very 3/7 Cavalry under fire at the airport. I had never seen the unit commander in two weeks of the TV war, so his sudden appearance was just more sad corroboration of my theory that we were getting the worst of it in the early Battle of Baghdad.

Lt. Col. Ferrell bravely tried to keep a straight face as he told Rodgers that all was well at the airport, but ended up in tears; Rodgers was too choked up to pick up the conversation. The put-up interview was yet more tragic corroboration of my sad analysis, and I began to cry along with Lieut. Col. Ferrell and Rodgers, for the boys of the 3/7 Cavalry, remembering that I had once been a young cavalryman, too.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:13:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#329. To: All (#328)

Every minute that the Jessica Lynch story was being aired...

Media duly continued to broadcast Jessica for two days, then bombings meant to get Saddam for a third; they broadcast everything but the Battle of Baghdad. On Wednesday, April 9, public affairs contrived a pulling down of Saddam Hussein’s statue and word generally spread that the battle (never shown before and never acknowledged as begun) was over. Frustrated by the failure of the American media to cover the much-awaited battle, millions of Americans turned to the English-version Al-Jazeera online for their news — and it promptly crashed (probably interrupted on White House orders).

The public had (and continues to have) no idea that the Iraqis did make their promised counterattack on April 5, at the Baghdad Airport and later across Baghdad, inflicting hundreds of casualties while fighting a rearguard action as they dispersed into the underground. On the basis of twenty years of military service, I infer that the Battle of Baghdad is what was raging every minute the media was airing or printing distraction.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:16:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#330. To: All (#329)

Most all of these soldiers were killed at the Battle of Baghdad Airport:

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WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) -- The Pentagon announced early Saturday that eight of the soldiers whose bodies were found during the April 1 rescue of Jessica Lynch were traveling with her in the convoy ambushed March 23 in southern Iraq. A ninth body was identified as a soldier from the Third Forward Support Group of the Third Infantry Division, but his name has not been released yet.

The eight soldiers who had been listed as missing were consequently listed as killed in action. Seven were from the 507th Maintenance Company, Ft. Bliss Texas.

The Pentagon announced two Marine helicopter pilots were killed in a crash in central Iraq Saturday. The crash was not a result of hostile fire. Their AH-1W "Super Cobra" attack helicopter went down at approximately 12:19 am Saturday a.m. Their families have not yet been notified of the deaths.

The latest announcements brought the total killed either by hostile fire or accidents to 75, eight of whom were not yet identified early Saturday, a Pentagon spokesman told United Press International.

The eight names switched from missing to dead are Sgt. George E. Buggs, 31, of Barnwell, S.C.; Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, of Cleveland, Ohio; Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, 18, of El Paso, Texas; Spc. James M. Kiehl, 22, of Comfort, Texas; Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, 35, of Amarillo, Texas; Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, Tuba City, Ariz.; Pvt. Brandon U. Sloan, 19, of Cleveland, Ohio; Sgt. Donald R. Walters, 33, of Kansas City, Mo.;

Buggs was with the 3rd Division Support Battalion, Fort Stewart, Ga. and the rest were with the 507th Maintenance Company, Fort Bliss, Texas.

Earlier Friday evening the Pentagon announced the deaths of three more soldiers based at Fort Benning, Ga., who died as a result of severe injuries Thursday, bringing the total number of U.S. deaths in or around Iraq to 60.

They were that of Staff Sgt. Nino D. Livaudais, 23, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Ga. He was from Utah. Also identified were Spc. Ryan P. Long, 21, who was assigned to A Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Ga. and Capt. Russell B. Rippetoe, 27, assigned to A Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Ga. He was from Colorado.

Still earlier Friday, the Pentagon announced that four Army soldiers and two Marines had brought the total number of deaths associated with the war in Iraq to 57.

Spc. Donald S. Oaks Jr., 20, was killed in action in Iraq on April 3. He was assigned to C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment (Multiple Launch Rocket System), Fort Sill, Okla. Oaks was from Erie, Pa.

Sgt. 1st Class Randall S. Rehn, 36, was killed in action April 3. He was assigned to C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment (Multiple Launch Rocket System), Fort Sill, Okla. Rehn was from Longmont, Colo

Read more: www.upi.com/Business_News...1049570687/#ixzz1r5cNe6Ck

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:26:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#331. To: All (#330)

Paul William Roberts is a Canadian Reporter. He was in Baghdad during the invasion. While there, he heard reports that something major was happening at the airport. He repeatedly tried to gain access but was turned away at every junction. Eventually, he gained access to the extremities of the complex and noticed that the vegetation was turned to 'tar'.

Trees had warped/fell into pools of black tar. Also, Roberts noticed bodies wearing Iraqi camo, one example being a pair of legs, with the upper torso melted into a pool of black tar. Roberts is now blind. His doctors cite uranium damage to the eye. But its what Roberts discovered afterwards via his middle-eastern contacts that reveals more. Roberts states the following, by the way,all of this is from his book 'A War Against Truth' (2004);

The Americans were taken by surprise and withdrew when they encountered the SRG forces at the airport. Instead of engaging them in battle, U.S. troops went searching for other entrances and exits to the underground complex. One was found at Saddams opulent suite at the airport, another at the official palace.

There were others. When these entrance-exit points had been sealed, and U.S. Commanders were certain of the exact locations of the Special Republican Guardsmen, the Americans detonated some kind of hi-tech bomb -- there were rumours that it was a neutron bomb, but this seems outrageous even by their standards -- in the airports underground complex, in the Southern palace, killing everyone in it and in the northern palace. Estimates are in the forty thousand range. With the SRG defeated the war was essenitally over.

So long as there is no talk of what actually happened in Baghdad that weekend in April(3-8, 2003;), there is no freedom of the American press. The fix is in, my friend, and America’s in a fix.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:33:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#332. To: mcgowanjm (#329)

the Jessica Lynch story

You TEPCO stock moguls won't be able to cover up the ongoing Fuki meltdown, with the 'ol Jessica story much longer.


Japan eases limits in nuke no-go zone for 1st time.... www.tokyotimes.co.jp/2012...-no-go-zone-for-1st-time/

The town office had moved to another part of Fukushima prefecture but moved into a part of Kawauchi just outside the evacuation zone earlier this month to help smooth the process of residents’ returning.

While the reclassification means about 16,000 people can return home fairly soon, it’s not clear how many will. Most are waiting until the area is further decontaminated and infrastructure restored, and local officials have said towns may lose unity due to the three-way divisions.

Under the revised evacuation plans, areas with annual exposure levels estimated at 20 millisieverts or below are deemed safe for people to visit and prepare for their permanent return, while being encouraged to make further decontamination efforts. Limited access is allowed for residents in areas with higher contamination — up to 50 millisieverts of estimated annual exposure. Places with annual exposure estimates exceeding that will remain off-limits.

Despite the government declaration that Fukushima Dai-ichi is stable, the plant is largely running on makeshift equipment and remains vulnerable. Officials have said that it would take up to 40 years to fully decommission the highly contaminated plant that has three reactors with melted cores.

Decontamination efforts also are uncertain. Experts have said there is no established method, and more highly contaminated areas are difficult to clean up.

Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, also the nuclear crisis management minister, said Friday that containing radiation release and keeping the plant stability is crucial to the return of affected residents.


"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Hondo68  posted on  2012-04-04   12:46:30 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#333. To: redleghunter (#322) (Edited)

If the US hit the power grid, then ask yourself "for what purpose." It was clear in OPLAN Cobra II (as indicated in the book) that the US wanted to avoid infrastructure damage given the coalition wanted a functioning Iraqi economy after regime change.

First: That's bull shit. ' The only thing the USSA 'saved' was the Oil Ministry.

Everything else was burned to the ground.

Second:

"How do you know? Do you think the bombing knocked out the power? "

Yes....;}

April 3 at night, there was a light that lit up the sky. Followed immediately by a boom that shook the Downtown Baghdad buildings. The grid went down simultaneously and never came back.

April 7 at night. An even bigger explosion.

ON APRIL 5, 2003, unit founder Captain Eric May detected major glitches in the media pictures coming back from Baghdad, which US forces had just reached. The reporters had gone from hopeful April 4 announcements that the siege of Baghdad had begun, to worried April 5 announcements that there was a fierce fight at Baghdad Airport — then suddenly and without explanation away from the developing battle to the "human interest" story that Private Jessica Lynch had been saved from Iraqi captors.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:46:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#334. To: All (#333)

The Battle of Baghdad was happening off-camera, hidden behind Private Lynch!

The pull-down of the statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9 was another manufactured event to indicate that the Baghdad had been occupied by US forces. But how did they take the city?

The answer is that US forces were attacked by much-larger Iraq forces at the Baghdad Airport on Saturday morning, April 5, and after bleeding badly from that vicious fight were engaged in a fierce battle in the rubbled, slow-go driving — under constant Iraqi fire — through the city of Baghdad, a drive lasting until three days later, when the distraction of Private Jessica abruptly ended so that the media could show a set-up scene of the "Fall of Baghdad" (i.e., a set-up pull-down of Saddam's Statue).

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:49:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#335. To: hondo68 (#332)

First. That's bullshit because the Typhoon just went thru last night.

Second. Fukushima City 300 000 will have to be evac'ed.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:52:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#336. To: A K A Stone (#313)

Why is it bullshite?

This:

As the vehicle burned, Korn and a sergeant apparently dismounted and walked to the tree line near the tank, searching for Iraqi positions, Major Kent Rideout, the senior officer on the scene, told the Los Angeles Times.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:53:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#337. To: A K A Stone (#313)

Why is it bullshite?

And this:

"At some point, Korn spotted a second tank and sent the sergeant back for an antitank rocket before going on alone. "

So now you have a tank Commander/Captain, All alone between a second Iraq tank and his unit.

That's bullshite.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:55:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#338. To: redleghunter (#321)

We found out that the Baathists profited from setting their own infrastructure on fire.

Again bullshite.

They did not even destroy one bridge.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   12:57:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#339. To: mcgowanjm, *Liberal Rehab Staff* (#335)

bullshit because the Typhoon just went thru last night.

Second. Fukushima City 300 000 will have to be evac'ed.

The kids are back in school in Fukushima City. The kid with the mask has eco-nut parents, damn shame.


Fukushima city welcomes return of last four schools after evacuation

Fukushima city welcomes return of last four schools after evacuationThe last four of this city's 12 elementary and junior high schools, which were evacuated to other locations as a result of the nuclear crisis, returned to their original premises and restarted classes here on Feb. 27. The return of the last four schools in this prefectural city, which until September last year was designated as an emergency evacuation preparation zone as a result of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, marks the end of the city's school evacuation cycle, though much remains to be completed before children restart their lives as they were before March 11, 2011. The four schools, among which are Ishigami No. 1 Elementary School and Ishigami No. 2 Elementary School, resumed classes at their original sites for the first time in almost a year, after soil decontamination and building reconstruction work was completed, allowing children to return.


At two nuclear power plants in northern Japan, cooling of a spent fuel storage pool temporarily stopped because of power failures but resumed in about 30 minutes without affecting safety, their operator Tohoku Electric Power Co. said.

The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant that suffered meltdowns at three reactors after last year's tsunami was unaffected by the storm.


"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.

Hondo68  posted on  2012-04-04   13:23:40 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#340. To: mcgowanjm (#333)

First: That's bull shit. ' The only thing the USSA 'saved' was the Oil Ministry.

Everything else was burned to the ground.

Second:

"How do you know? Do you think the bombing knocked out the power? "

Yes....;}

April 3 at night, there was a light that lit up the sky. Followed immediately by a boom that shook the Downtown Baghdad buildings. The grid went down simultaneously and never came back.

April 7 at night. An even bigger explosion.

ON APRIL 5, 2003, unit founder Captain Eric May detected major glitches in the media pictures coming back from Baghdad, which US forces had just reached. The reporters had gone from hopeful April 4 announcements that the siege of Baghdad had begun, to worried April 5 announcements that there was a fierce fight at Baghdad Airport — then suddenly and without explanation away from the developing battle to the "human interest" story that Private Jessica Lynch had been saved from Iraqi captors.

Where were you on April 5th?

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-04   13:55:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#341. To: mcgowanjm (#338)

Again bullshite.

They did not even destroy one bridge.

You have clearly formed your lens of Iraq from news websites. Saddam admitted he left plans for a scorched earth policy to leave the coalition with a mess so the soon to be insurgency (as planned waiting in the wings) would gain popular support. If I were to put his words into English it would be something like this: "You wanted Iraq, here it is now have a nice day."

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-04   13:59:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#342. To: A K A Stone (#0) (Edited)

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/me...j.irq.war.main/index.html

Iraqwar.ru itself is history by Dom on 20.10.2004 [19:26 ] As time goes by I am more convinced that Iraqwar.ru was one of the unique things I ever experienced in life. I have yet to see anything like it. This site comes closest.

A lot of us were on Iraqwar every day from long before the war until the day it conked out. Too bad we can't look it up now and again. But then again, maybe life's too short for looking back. Once again. the living humans outlast their own works.

I don't reckon there's much in this neutron bomb story. As for the Ramsaj reports ceasing, that was not a surprise. They were too good. They were bound to be stopped sooner or later.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   14:17:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#343. To: redleghunter (#341)

You have clearly formed your lens of Iraq from news websites.

Thanx for adding nothing to this information....;}

'news websites'....LMGFAO....where does your lens form?

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   14:19:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#344. To: redleghunter (#341)

Saddam admitted he left plans for a scorched earth policy to leave the coalition with a mess....

Any 'news site' whatsoever will do just fine.

Waiting not at all for you to come up with one....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   14:20:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#345. To: redleghunter (#341)

Again bullshite.

They did not even destroy one bridge.

You have clearly formed your lens of Iraq from news websites. Saddam admitted he left plans for a scorched earth policy to leave the coalition with a mess ...

So why was not. ONE. SINGLE. BRIDGE. destroyed.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   14:21:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#346. To: redleghunter (#341)

so the soon to be insurgency (as planned waiting in the wings) would gain popular support. If I were to put his words into English it would be something like this: "You wanted Iraq, here it is now have a nice day."

So why is EVERY ministry burned to the ground....

except....

wait for it....

the OIL Ministry building....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   14:22:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#347. To: All (#342)

As for the Ramsaj reports ceasing, that was not a surprise. They were too good. They were bound to be stopped sooner or later.

www.iraq-war.ru/article/27537

If theres one thing Russia is good for, its outing US BS. But then, the original articles/exposures are the work of American veterans.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   14:25:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#348. To: mcgowanjm (#344)

Any 'news site' whatsoever will do just fine.

Waiting not at all for you to come up with one....;}

If something is not reported press does it make it untrue?

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-04   14:39:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#349. To: mcgowanjm (#345)

So why was not. ONE. SINGLE. BRIDGE. destroyed.

Have you read Cobra II. The answer is there.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-04   14:41:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#350. To: mcgowanjm (#346)

except....

wait for it....

the OIL Ministry building....;}

There were three oil ministry buildings...which one are you referring to? The Oil ministry had their own state security to fend off looters.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-04   14:44:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#351. To: A K A Stone (#0)

#1. To: Robin (#0)

Private First Class Lynch & the 3/7 Cavalry & the Battle of Baghdad Airport April 3-8, 2003

Writing on April 13 for the Danger Room blog at Wired, Hambling says that from the description al-Rawi gives in the Al Jazeera interview of a series of explosions that killed the occupants of buildings without destroying the structures, “Interestingly, there is a weapon in the U.S. arsenal designed to do exactly that. ... The AGM-114N.”

Hambling continues, “On May 15th, 2003, just a few weeks after the action at Baghdad airport, Donald Rumsfeld praised the new weapon. ... Although officially described as ‘metal augmented’ or even ‘hyperbaric,’ the new warhead is not distinguishable from thermobaric weapons which produce the same sort of enhanced blast with a lower overpressure and longer duration for more destructive effects. Like many thermobarics, the AGM-114N used finely powdered aluminum. The military are generally quiet about thermobarics because they have received such bad press. Human Rights Watch criticized them because they ‘kill and injure in a particularly brutal manner over a wide area.’ “

mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-04 18:58:32 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #2. To: All (#1)

david bloom 3/7 cavalry

The Rescue of Private First Class Lynch

On the evening of 1 April 2003, SOF, supported by marines, assaulted the hospital in which Private Jessica Lynch was being treated.

Although there have been news stories subsequently suggesting that the assault was unnecessary since Iraqi troops had left the day before, one fact is clear--the SOF troops brought Lynch out.

Her capture, her captivity, even her return home stimulated speculation and enormous media attention

Staff Sergeant Joe Todd,

.Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Twitty, commander of TF 3-15 IN, knew Bloom better than any other soldier in the task force. They had first met 12 years earlier when Bloom, as a young up-and-coming journalist, covered the 24th Infantry Division during Operation DESERT STORM. Twitty was then a captain, serving as aide de camp for then-Major General Barry McCaffrey, commander of the 24th Infantry Division.211

...;}

mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-04

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   19:00:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#352. To: redleghunter (#350)

There were three oil ministry buildings.

Show me.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   19:01:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#353. To: redleghunter (#350)

The Oil ministry had their own state security to fend off looters.

Show me this as well.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   19:02:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#354. To: redleghunter, All (#348)

Any 'news site' whatsoever will do just fine.

Waiting not at all for you to come up with one....;}

If something is not reported press does it make it untrue?

STILL no sources for anything you say.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   19:03:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#355. To: redleghunter (#349)

Have you read Cobra II. The answer is there.

RU Serious?

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mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   19:04:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#356. To: All (#342)

As for the Ramsaj reports ceasing, that was not a surprise. They were too good. They were bound to be stopped sooner or later.

In an interview published by the Crawford, Texas, Lone Star Iconoclast (lonestaricon.com), May says, “The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report.

“The bogus rescue of Private Lynch was merely a distraction from the truth,” said May. “And the staged photo-op of the pulling down of Saddam Hussein’s statue was nothing more than a way to cement into people’s minds that it was an easy victory.”

Congressional hearings on April 24 heard testimony on “the histories of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch and Cpl. Pat Tillman ... as egregious examples of officials’ twisting the truth for public relations in wartime.” (“Government Challenged on Lynch and Tillman,” New York Times, April 24)

Captain May says, “I think the Battle of Baghdad was emblematic of the whole misadventure in the Middle East. There is nothing that I thought then that I don’t think now has been validated by time. The American public still doesn’t know that there was a Battle of Baghdad because the media-military apparatus constructed the Private Jessica Lynch mess to hold attention.”

May continues: “The best evidence that I have from international sources, scientific sources, is that our position was becoming untenable at the Baghdad airport and we used a neutron warhead, at least one. That is the big secret of Baghdad airport.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-04   19:06:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#357. To: A K A Stone (#0)

April 5, 2003

Pat Tillman's first mission was securing the release of Jessica Lynch.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-05   10:41:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#358. To: All (#320) (Edited)

APRIL 5 This Day in History

April 5, 2003

Three hours later, the city shook from more multiple explosions, and antiaircraft fire shot into the sky.

American armored divisions launched the assault on the airport, 12 miles from the center of the Iraqi capital, as U.S.-led coalition troops advanced on the city.

CM: I had just come back from teaching a martial arts class on Friday, April 4, 2003. That would have been the morning of April 5 in Baghdad. Immediately, what I saw on CNN, about 9 p.m. Central time, was that Baghdad had been surrounded. We had dedicated the military forces to enveloping and making it succumb piece-by-piece, maybe sending in the 101st Airborne.

Then, all of a sudden, there was a report of explosions and CNN started to act like they were all rattled and didn’t know it was coming. Given that I was a prior service and intelligence public affairs officer, I knew very well that meant unexpected contact. Pretty soon, they were saying there were huge explosions from the airport, and the next thing you know, they’re casting over to imbed Walter Rogers from CNN. As he’s broadcasting from Baghdad Airport, you can hear artillery hitting around his Humvee and you can hear small arms fire hitting it: a distinct ping, ping, ping. That pretty much told me they were getting fired up bad.

That was when it was still pre-dawn in Baghdad. By dawn, Lt. Col. Terry Ferrell, the 3/7 Cavalry Group commander appeared on TV during CNN evening coverage and he broke down into tears when he trying to say everything was okay at Baghdad Airport. That made it clear to me that the 3/7, the scout unit, the cavalry squadron that attended the 3rd Infantry Division, the U.S. Army division that had surrounded Baghdad, had wound up in a close fight in the Baghdad Airport. That’s what I picked up at the time.

By the next day, CNN was saying there was substantial contradiction in facts from various media reports. Arab media were putting out 200 U.S. dead at the airport. Russian Intel put out that dozens were dead and a real fight had developed. U.S. media were putting out that Jessica Lynch had been rescued.

JA: How do you account for foreign media reporting about a bloody battle and U.S. media being silent about the airport while highlighting the rescue of Jessica Lynch?

CM: To me, at this point, it was a done deal. The Battle of Baghdad was essentially blocked out from April 5 all the way through April 8. On April 9, you had the pull-down of the Saddam statue which represents a pretty efficient ending of the Battle of Baghdad. But, it really was a propaganda ending. The pull-down was a staged event and I’ve heard that the few Iraqis there were not even Iraqis.

JA: Why have you taken such passion about the Battle of Baghdad?

Stranger than fiction Order Now

CM: The propaganda cover-up of the Battle of Baghdad, what we call BOBCUP (Battle of Baghdad Cover-up) was so conspicuously against the United States principles of information, which is what we follow in the Department of Defense Public Affairs operations, was so egregiously out of line, it was then that I self-mobilized my mission of conscience because, basically, it was apparent to me at that point, that we were under dictatorship. Suppressing the events of an entire battle and keeping it suppressed long after the battle was over … you know, you could have said, "Well, we didn’t want to tell the Iraqis where our troops were," or something else. But, you can’t say that months and months and months and years after the event.

Baghdad was the beginning.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-05   10:49:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#359. To: mcgowanjm (#354)

STILL no sources for anything you say.

I am a source. Three tours there in the thick of it and at a higher headquarters.

I was informed that your special "wire" thread is like a padded room for you to play in. I won't disturb your silence.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-05   14:22:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#360. To: mcgowanjm (#358)

JA: How do you account for foreign media reporting about a bloody battle and U.S. media being silent about the airport while highlighting the rescue of Jessica Lynch?

Of course there was a fierce fight for BIAP. Saddam's hunting lodge and palace are on the same compound. Hate to break this to you...The Battle of Baghdad was on the US News. Check out some of Ollie North's reports. The embeds did a good job. You do realize seizing Baghad happened 4 months ahead of schedule. And Jessica Lynch was rescued on 1 April not 4 or 5 April. 3ID and 101st were moving so fast and busting up what remained of the Iraqi disruption zones, one unit ran out of ammo, picked up Iraqi weapons and started fighting.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14

redleghunter  posted on  2012-04-05   14:45:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#361. To: mcgowanjm (#357)

Pat Tillman's first mission was securing the release of Jessica Lynch.

That's goofy.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-04-05   18:04:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#362. To: redleghunter (#359) (Edited)

I was informed that your special "wire" thread is like a padded room for you to play in. I won't disturb your silence.

You got balls, you'll give me a source on anything.

You're innuendo bullshit is disinfo.

An ad hominem attack.

Your say so makes you a hero. good luck on that one....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-05   20:38:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#363. To: redleghunter (#359)

I am a source.

NUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D

Yeah. Me too.

you got backing from your Zio fundy 1% ers. And that's all you got.

Good luck with that....;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2012-04-05   20:39:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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