Breaking.....
US launching major ground offensive against the Republican Guards
surrounding Baghdad...
45-60 day pause, my ass
Pentagon: Ground Offensive on Baghdad has begun!
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Pentagon: Ground Offensive on Baghdad has begun!
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There still however 60-80 kilometers from the city, and have only engaged one division of up to a half dozen guarding the place. Though its unlikely the others will be able to conduct more then local redeployments.
The Marines are also closing on Kut, but they won't be sharing the fait of the British whose inept commander had them entrench there during WW1.
The Marines are also closing on Kut, but they won't be sharing the fait of the British whose inept commander had them entrench there during WW1.
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Re: Pentagon: Ground Offensive on Baghdad has begun!
Who was saying a pause that big?MKSheppard wrote:Breaking.....
US launching major ground offensive against the Republican Guards
surrounding Baghdad...
45-60 day pause, my ass
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One of the articles.Who was saying a pause that big?
Either way, the Medina Division isn't part of the main ring of defenses. There are five (count em, five) other divisions defending Baghdad, and Medina is 'ahead' of the ring, according to a war map I saw. They are the Baghdad, the Nebuchanezzar, Hammurabi, Al-Nida, and the Adnan.
One thing that fucking pisses me off is the dumbasses on Fox News don't know what the fuck the name of a division means, so they say it in a very stupid context:
"there are those Medina divisions, being reinforced by those Nebuchanezzar divisions" as if it's some sort of classification like "infantry" instead of just a name.
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This doesn't really seem like an attack on Baghdad, per se, but an attack designed to defeat the city's outer defenses and Republican Guard units.
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You expect reporters to bother to learn military terminology?Vympel wrote: One thing that fucking pisses me off is the dumbasses on Fox News don't know what the fuck the name of a division means, so they say it in a very stupid context:
"there are those Medina divisions, being reinforced by those Nebuchanezzar divisions" as if it's some sort of classification like "infantry" instead of just a name.
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I can imagine a marine busting into the city with his M-16 held firmly in one hand and shouting at the top of his lungs, "Honey! I'm HOOOOooooooommmme!"
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Oh my god. I used to have to write the teleprompters for those people. You would not believe how stupid some of them are.Beowulf wrote:You expect reporters to bother to learn military terminology?Vympel wrote: One thing that fucking pisses me off is the dumbasses on Fox News don't know what the fuck the name of a division means, so they say it in a very stupid context:
"there are those Medina divisions, being reinforced by those Nebuchanezzar divisions" as if it's some sort of classification like "infantry" instead of just a name.
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You sure?Master of Ossus wrote:Oh my god. I used to have to write the teleprompters for those people. You would not believe how stupid some of them are.Beowulf wrote:You expect reporters to bother to learn military terminology?Vympel wrote: One thing that fucking pisses me off is the dumbasses on Fox News don't know what the fuck the name of a division means, so they say it in a very stupid context:
"there are those Medina divisions, being reinforced by those Nebuchanezzar divisions" as if it's some sort of classification like "infantry" instead of just a name.
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Okay. One of the things that we ALWAYS told reporters and anchors is that, if they ARE going to deviate from teh script to make "small talk," they are not allowed to ask questions of a news-related matter. They're also not supposed to belittle the audience. One of them had a particular problem doing this, and decided to remind people that Alaskans did accept American money as currency following a story.Beowulf wrote:You sure?
Another one asked me why I hadn't spelled "rendezvous" foe-en-et-ik-all-ee following a news broadcast.
Then you have the ones that try to talk about things they haven't a clue about....
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