Looks just like Stalingrad across the river for the Red Army troops about
to cross the Volga!
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Eh, this is old news. They're burning oil all around Bagdad in he vain hope it will difficult the progression of the enemy troops, or diminish the bombardements accuracy.
It also makes it easier for Al Jazera to claim we're mercilessly slaughtering civilians from the air by pointing to the columns of smoke coming from the "burning" city of Baghdad.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
RedImperator wrote:It also makes it easier for Al Jazera to claim we're mercilessly slaughtering civilians from the air by pointing to the columns of smoke coming from the "burning" city of Baghdad.
Protestors in the UK have been interviewed saying there must have been hundreds or thousands of deaths from the bombings based on the fires they've seen.
DON'T YOU SEE???? SADDAM IS GASSING IT'S OWN POPULATION!!!!!
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The best the smoke can do is degrade BDA. JDAM's got give a fuck about smoke and the stealth aircraft, which have been striking don't use laser weapons.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
RedImperator wrote:It also makes it easier for Al Jazera to claim we're mercilessly slaughtering civilians from the air by pointing to the columns of smoke coming from the "burning" city of Baghdad.
Protestors in the UK have been interviewed saying there must have been hundreds or thousands of deaths from the bombings based on the fires they've seen.
Stupid morons, even Iraq its self is only claiming 200 civilian causalities
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
phongn wrote:Protestors in the UK have been interviewed saying there must have been hundreds or thousands of deaths from the bombings based on the fires they've seen.
Stupid morons, even Iraq its self is only claiming 200 civilian causalities
The BBC reporter brought that up and the protestor promptly ignored it. He compared the US attacks to the London Blitz.