GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 4/13/03-Baghdad,Basra, Kirkuk Warhead
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Posted on 04/12/2003 2:32 PM EDT by Diogenesis

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 4/13/03 -Baghdad, Basra-?Iraqis Buried; Kirkuk Warhead

BREAKING: Kirkuk - Chemical Warhead found
BREAKING: Baghdad - freed Iraqis get back THEIR files
BREAKING: Baghdad - Possible Iraqis Buried Alive
BREAKING: Basra - Possible Iraqis Buried Alive
BREAKING: Basra - 'White Lion'
BREAKING: Basra - CHEMICAL ALLEY
BREAKING: Basra - food sacks sequestered from the UN Oil for Food program Saddam returned to the people
BREAKING: Basra - Saddam's palace
BREAKING: Basra - Saddam's private yacht
BREAKING: Basra - Freedom in Basra

========= Chemical Warhead found in Kirkuk =============

Chemical warhead at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry. Trace amounts of a nerve agent was found
in two spots on the ~meter long warhead. The amounts could be consistent with
leakage from a chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next
to it.

========= Baghdad =========

========= Possible Iraqis Buried Alive in Baghdad ============

In Baghdad, an underground tunnel is searched for prisoners still held
in sections under water by the egregious Iraqis. Iraqis beg for
quiet to listen for voices. This is ongoing now.

In Baghdad, freed Iraqis open a sealed vault at the Military Intelligence Ministry.
Unlike Americans whose FBI files to this day remain held by the Democrats and their agents,
the free Iraqis retrieved thousands of their own personal files.

In Baghdad, in prison, a drawing of a prisoner's family remains on a cell wall.
How many Iraqis had to die (and Coalition troops) because of CNN witholding info,
and Kofi and his Klowns being so inept and criminal?

In Baghdad, Marine and Army heroes found a huge cache of weapons.

========= Basra =========

========= Possible Iraqis Buried Alive in Basra ============

In Basra, freed Iraqi civilians try to listen for voices which may be
coming from secret tunnels under a Basra prison. The freed Shi'ite Muslims
are digging at this moment oping to find prisoners trapped in the underground jail.

In Basra, a freed Iraqi displays a tattoo, cut into his back by prison guards
when he was taken from the west of Basra.

========= Basra at the infamous 'White Lion' =========

In Basra at the infamous 'White Lion', the building that housed secret police and torture,
an Iraqi civilian -- FREED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA --
looks through personal files. Saddam Hussein's Baath Party leaders
tortured, murdered and raped political prisoners there.

In Basra, at the infamous 'White Lion', freed Iraqis in shock and awe
enter the very, now empty, cells where they were interrogated and tortured
with beatings, mutilations, electric shocks and chemical baths.

In Basra, freed Iraqis discuss their past torture, rape,
and murder of their families, by, with, a Fedayeen
terrorist, probably from outside Iraq.

Some Fedayeen got away. They have American clothes from RI.

In Basra, some Fedayeen are taken by the Coalition.

BINGO: Truly a "CHEMICAL ALLEY"

Near Basra, British soldiers use chemical agent testing equipment
in a stairwell leading to a flooded room at a building
used by the late Ali Hassan al-Majeed, 'Chemical Ali' .

Near Basra, Iraq, the Close Support Regiment discovered
and secured a weapons cache .

COALTION HUMANITARIAN MISSION DELIVERED

In Basra, British engineers provided 10 huge water tankers carrying 20,000 liters of water each, to a community starved by Saddam.

In Basra, Iraq, Irish Guards patrol.

In Basra, Iraq, heroes of the Commando Squadron and Royal Engineers
engineer the environment to be Saddam-free.

In Basra, Iraq, the Red Cross. Are they hiding weapons again?
And why did they never ever visit American POWs held by Iraq and their friends?

In Basra, Iraq, after decades of both food and medicine and water being systematically kept from them
by the tyrant Saddam, the Iraqis raided the local pharmacy.

In Basra, freed Iraqis take back assets from Saddam's "City Hall".

In Basra, these are the food sacks sequestered from the UN Oil for Food program
by tyrant dictator Saddam (who also conveniently received billions
from the Terrorist-in-Chief Kofi Annan). This sequestered food was retrieved by the
starving Iraqis [and is incorrectly called "looting" and "chaos"
by the ever-pejorative ultraleftist media].

In Basra, Iraq, at Saddam's palace on the Shatt al-Arab river.

In Basra, Iraq, on Saddam's private yacht, the 'Al Mansur'.

In Basra, on Saddam's private yacht, the restaurant.

In Basra, Iraq, on Saddam's private yacht, the al Mansur, Saddam's private operating theatre.

========= Freedom in Basra =========

DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH WAITING FOR THESE PICTURES ON YOUR LEFTIST TV OR NEWSPAPER

In Basra, Iraq, freed Iraqi children and adults wipe out the stigmata of
the tyrant Saddam Hussein, then play freely - coutesy of the citizens of the USA.

========= Freedom in Basra =========

DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH WAITING FOR THESE PICTURES ON YOUR LEFTIST TV OR NEWSPAPER

In Basra, Iraq, freed Iraqi children play and cheer Coalition troops
who freed them DESPITE opposition in the US, EU and Axis of Weasels.

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END OF TRANSMISSION 04/13/03 .......... K

Are you not impressed with the United States of America and its inspectors?

1 posted on 04/12/2003 2:32 PM EDT by Diogenesis
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Three Cheers for President Bush and the Inspectors of the USA!!!!!!!!!

2 posted on 04/12/2003 2:33 PM EDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
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3 posted on 04/12/2003 2:35 PM EDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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Continued prayers for safety and protection for the coalition heroes. Freedom bump!

4 posted on 04/12/2003 2:35 PM EDT by paws_and_whiskers
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Continued prayers for safety and protection for the coalition heroes. "

And then some.

5 posted on 04/12/2003 2:39 PM EDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
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Great pics! BUMP

6 posted on 04/12/2003 2:40 PM EDT by frosty snowman
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Where there's one, there'll be more.
Many, many more.

And Blix said there weren't any to be found..

7 posted on 04/12/2003 2:41 PM EDT by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)
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bump

8 posted on 04/12/2003 2:41 PM EDT by tutstar
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Thanks so much for puting all this together, I look forward to the updates

Hats off to you my friend,

God Bless

9 posted on 04/12/2003 2:42 PM EDT by MJY1288 (Freedom is Ringing)
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Way to go for our guys!!!

10 posted on 04/12/2003 2:42 PM EDT by manna
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But if you listen to the press, no WMD's have been found. Not one. They are burying their heads in the sand once again and will be "shocked" when the stores are finally found.

11 posted on 04/12/2003 2:42 PM EDT by McGavin999
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Thanks so much for the pics.

12 posted on 04/12/2003 2:46 PM EDT by Victoria Delsoul
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United States Marines Sgt. Jose Acostavelo carries a flower offered to him by an Iraqi civilian as his squad of Kilo Company, 3rd Batallion, 7th Marines patrols a neighborhood in Baghdad Saturday, April 12, 2003.

13 posted on 04/12/2003 2:48 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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Fog of war

A U.S. A-10 Warthog plane circles beyond the smoke from burning Republican Guard barracks in northern Baghdad on April 8. Later in the day, an Iraqi missile hit one of the A-10s, but the pilot ejected safely and was recovered unharmed.

Taking the bridge

U.S. Marines from the 3rd Battalion urge infantrymen to rush across the damaged Baghdad Highway Bridge on April 7, while under Iraqi fire on the capital's southeastern outskirts.

 

Comfort after the conflict

An Iraqi soldier comforts his crying comrade April 10 after they were captured in the northern Iraqi village of Perdeh, which came under Kurdish control. U.S. special operations forces and Kurdish fighters advanced into the nearby city of Kirkuk.

 

Left behind

Tony Nave, 6, son of U.S. Marine Maj. Kevin G. Nave, hugs a teddy bear after an April 5 funeral service at St. Patrick Church in White Lake, Mich. Maj. Nave was killed in action in Iraq on March 26.

 

Reallocation of wealth

Two Iraqi women carry furniture away from an Iraqi government office building on fire in downtown Bagdhad on Friday. Widespread looting continued in the Iraqi capital after the disappearance of Iraqi government officials and police.

 

Homecoming hug

Rocky Benard, right, cries as he embraces family member U.S. Navy Petty Officer Dale Tischler of State College, Pa., and Tischler's daughter Christina on Friday at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Va. Tischler and his 319 crew mates aboard the USS Portland came home after a January deployment in support of the invasion of Iraq. After delivering 7,000 Marines to the Iraqi theater as part of a seven-ship amphibious task force, the Portland returned to her home port early to repair its propulsion system.

 

Mourning a son

Fernando Suarez del Solar looks into the hearse carrying the casket of his son Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez del Solar after his funeral at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Escondido, Calif., on Friday. Del Solar was killed in Iraq on March 27

 

Ripples in Tehran

An Iraqi man rips up a photograph of Saddam Hussein inside Iraq's embassy in Tehran as about 200 Iraqis storm their embassy in the Iranian capital April 11.

 

New friends

Iraqi boys cheer a U.S. Marine from Charlie Company, 1st Marine Division, in Saddam City, an impoverished area of Baghdad, on April 11.

 

Bellying up

U.S. infantrymen sit at the pool bar at the palace of Odai, the playboy son of Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad on April 10.

 

Urgent search An Iraqi man searches through documents April 11 in Baghdad's military intelligence headquarters for signs of missing relatives who had been seized by the regime before the war.

 

Bound for Baghdad U.S.-trained Free Iraqi Forces soldiers wave their flag from a U.S. Army truck as they pass through the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on April 11. Some of the roughly 150 Iraqi soldiers in a column of about 30 vehicles said they were heading to Baghdad to help U.S. troops.

 

Morning exercises

Crew members do their morning gymnastic exercises April 11 in a hangar aboard the USS Nimitz. The San Diego-based 1,100-foot, nuclear-powered Nimitz class aircraft carrier relieved the USS Abraham Lincoln.

 

Waiting for supplies

An Iraqi boy and his sister join the line for fuel and water as it is distributed by members of Britain's 3 Regiment Army Air Corps Civilian Military Cooperation Team in a village in southern Iraq on April 11.

This last one reminds me of the National Geographic photo of the 12 year old girl from Afghanistan from 1985.

Click for the story behind the picture.

14 posted on 04/12/2003 2:53 PM EDT by Incorrigible
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bump for later viewing!

15 posted on 04/12/2003 2:56 PM EDT by PeoplesRep_of_LA ("As long as it takes...No. That's the answer to your question. As long as it takes." GWB)
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Are you not impressed with the United States of America and its inspectors?

Immensely impressed and eternally grateful!!

16 posted on 04/12/2003 2:56 PM EDT by NCEaglette
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One? ONE!? We invaded Iraq and spent upwards of 75 Billion dollars to find ONE shell with chemical weapons? That is the WMD? Gee, that's one expensive shell. It should certainly be in the book of records and the most expensive artillary shell ever found.

17 posted on 04/12/2003 2:58 PM EDT by clamboat
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In Memory of the Prison Artist

"Locked within the tyrant's cell
Powerless to escape this hell

Stripped of all humanity
With no way out, no way to flee

The things I once thought somehow mattered
Now utterly worthless, illusion shattered

All I think of now are my children and wife
More important to me than my very life

My imprisonment has forced me to measure
To recognize my only treasure"

EV

18 posted on 04/12/2003 2:58 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
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Thank you for your dedication and all the marvelous pictures that we would never see if it were up to the media.

God bless our troops and all those who support them.

19 posted on 04/12/2003 3:03 PM EDT by jtill (Be a Monthly Donor - It's painless!)
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Now you've really gone and done it...wiping tears from my eyes and cheeks...as always---thanks.

20 posted on 04/12/2003 3:04 PM EDT by NautiNurse
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THANK YOU, FAITHFUL DIO!!!

21 posted on 04/12/2003 3:04 PM EDT by Humidston (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law)
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22 posted on 04/12/2003 3:05 PM EDT by paws_and_whiskers
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Dio! We Love you! Thanks For All The Hard Work You Do Reporting What The LEftist Media Does Not Show Us! Many Thanks!!!!!!!!! :)

23 posted on 04/12/2003 3:07 PM EDT by PureSolace
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Fantasy Painting

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Eric Hooper looks upon a fantasy painting in a house in an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, April 12, 2003. Photos of Saddam Hussein and Parisoula Lampsos, a woman who has publicly claimed to be his mistress were displayed inside the house. Lampsos escaped to Lebanon in 2002.

24 posted on 04/12/2003 3:10 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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One? ONE!? We invaded Iraq and spent upwards of 75 Billion dollars to find ONE shell with chemical weapons? That is the WMD? Gee, that's one expensive shell. It should certainly be in the book of records and the most expensive artillary shell ever found.

</sarcasm>

There. I fixed it.

25 posted on 04/12/2003 3:10 PM EDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Contribute soon so the Freepathon can be over and we can stop seeing all these puke liberals!)
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Very poignant picture, and your poem is also moving. Doggone lump in throat again!

26 posted on 04/12/2003 3:11 PM EDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Contribute soon so the Freepathon can be over and we can stop seeing all these puke liberals!)
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Parisoula Lampsos beneath the Mother of all Lamps

Saddam Hussein stands with Parisoula Lampsos in a photo at a house discovered by US troops in an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, April 12, 2003. Lampsos, who has publicly claimed to be his mistress.

27 posted on 04/12/2003 3:13 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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I wonder how is it that Middle Eastern women have such beautiful eye colors...

28 posted on 04/12/2003 3:14 PM EDT by El Conservador ("No blood for oil!"... Then don't drive, you moron!!!)
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Troops take a break in grand manner.

U.S. Army Captains Steve Barry, right, and Chris Carter, left, relax in a house in an upscale neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, April 12, 2003. Photos of Saddam Hussein and Parisoula Lampsos, a woman who has publicly claimed to be his mistress were displayed inside the house. Lampsos escaped to Lebanon in 2002.

29 posted on 04/12/2003 3:16 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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Just my opinion...
but the photo of the son with the teddy bear following his father's funeral
goes the famed JFK Jr. funeral salute one better photo-journalistically...

30 posted on 04/12/2003 3:17 PM EDT by VOA
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"Unlike Americans whose FBI files to this day remain held by the Democrats and their agents, the free Iraqis retrieved thousands of their own personal files."

An incredible statement!

31 posted on 04/12/2003 3:18 PM EDT by Happy2BMe (HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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Saddam Hussein stands with Parisoula Lampsos in a photo at a house discovered by
US troops in an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, April 12, 2003.
Lampsos, who has publicly claimed to be his mistress.

Ms. Lampsos gave a really good interview with Clair Shipman on an ABC news
special...maybe six months ago?

Lampsos said that prior to Gulf War I, Saddam was just shrugging off the idea
that the USA military would cause him any trouble.
"The USA...who are they?" he'd say with a shrug of his shoulders.

Where ever Saddam is now, he's probably lucky if he can speak...or shrug his shoulders.

32 posted on 04/12/2003 3:21 PM EDT by VOA
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Another gift.

An Iraqi boy offers some water to a United States Marine of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, while he was out on patrol Friday, April 11, 2003 in a neighborhood near central Baghdad. Marines patrolled through streets in search of any remnants of resistance as well as intelligence on weapons caches or hiding places of enemy forces.

33 posted on 04/12/2003 3:23 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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Now you've really gone and done it...wiping tears from my eyes and cheeks...as always---thanks.

Ditto that. (Tears a big smile)

34 posted on 04/12/2003 3:34 PM EDT by MotleyGirl70 (If you like the French raise your left hand, if you ARE French raise both hands!!!!!!!!!)
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Ms. Lampsos gave a really good interview with Clair Shipman on an ABC news special...maybe six months ago?

Though these photos jogged my memory of that interview, your recollection of it is better than mine. Nonetheless I do recall her interview was pretty impressive and she saw through him pretty well.

"The USA...who are they?" he'd say with a shrug of his shoulders. Where ever Saddam is now, he's probably lucky if he can speak...or shrug his shoulders.

Hehe. The Great Pufferfish has at least had the wind knocked out of him. And he could even now be a flatfish.

35 posted on 04/12/2003 3:35 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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Afternoon tea on the front

United States Marines Lance Cpl. Josh Carbajal takes a sip of some tea offered to him by Iraqi civilians while setting up a defensive perimeter during a patrol of a neighborhood in Baghdad Friday, April 11, 2003. Marines began mingling with civilians during patrol Friday to start building relations and lowering tensions. Carbajal is with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marnies.

36 posted on 04/12/2003 3:37 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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One? ONE!? We invaded Iraq and spent upwards of 75 Billion dollars to find ONE shell with chemical weapons? That is the WMD? Gee, that's one expensive shell. It should certainly be in the book of records and the most expensive artillary shell ever found.

*yawn* have patience, clambreath...

37 posted on 04/12/2003 3:38 PM EDT by ovrtaxt (I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.)
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Great work Dio!

The good guys:

Demonstrators react during a rally to support U.S. troops in the war in Iraq, on the National Mall in Washington, April 12, 2003. Several thousand people turned out for the demonstration.

38 posted on 04/12/2003 3:46 PM EDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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"And why did they never ever visit American POWs held by Iraq and their friends?"

Because the Iraqi regime failed to allow access to them or in some cases failed to acknowledge that they had them in their custody. Since 1991 the ICRC had asked the Iraqi's to either release the missing Kuwaiti POWs or allow them to inspect prisons for signs of them. The Iraqis refused to do so.

39 posted on 04/12/2003 3:51 PM EDT by Tommyjo
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In Basra, these are the food sacks sequestered from the UN Oil for Food program by tyrant dictator Saddam (who also conveniently received billions from the Terrorist-in-Chief Kofi Annan). This sequestered food was retrieved by the starving Iraqis [and is incorrectly called "looting" and "chaos" by the ever-pejorative ultraleftist media].

Well said Diogenesis! Well said!

PRAISE G-D!!! LET THESE PEOPLE EAT!

G-d Bless the United States Armed Forces
and Coalition!

40 posted on 04/12/2003 4:00 PM EDT by LindaSOG (Freedom!)
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Are you not impressed with the United States of America and its inspectors?

You know what they say: "When you want a job done right, do it yourself." Yes, I'm very impressed. Great pictures this past week. Thank you!

41 posted on 04/12/2003 4:03 PM EDT by McLynnan
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BTTT!!!!!!!!

42 posted on 04/12/2003 4:07 PM EDT by E.G.C.
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Fabulous report, thank you.

43 posted on 04/12/2003 4:11 PM EDT by bentfeather
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Not that you're populating the above mean of the Bell Curve, but personality cult police state is a WMD. Of course if Ranger Hero clamboat was in Iraq right this minute, after 350 miles and four weeks of fighting, no doubt all would be revealed.

44 posted on 04/12/2003 4:12 PM EDT by Leisler
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Thank you Linda for the ping.

45 posted on 04/12/2003 4:13 PM EDT by bentfeather
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And now they think the UN should do the rebuilding and distribute aid!! Thanks for the ping.

46 posted on 04/12/2003 4:20 PM EDT by bluesagewoman
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WeLl - we also brought that statue down. ;)

47 posted on 04/12/2003 4:31 PM EDT by geopyg
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48 posted on 04/12/2003 4:33 PM EDT by Leisler
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bump

49 posted on 04/12/2003 4:35 PM EDT by RippleFire
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Should anyone be leading a country with such poor taste in Art? We've done them a huge favor. Nebuchadnezzar, he wasn't.

50 posted on 04/12/2003 4:40 PM EDT by man of Yosemite ("When a man decides to do something everyday, that's about when he stops doing it.")
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most excellent

51 posted on 04/12/2003 4:43 PM EDT by The Wizard (Saddamocrats are enemies of America)
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Leading a country with such poor taste in Art? I thought fantasy art was a teenage boy thing. And this isn't even good fantasy art.

I could use an interpretation; is there a psychiatrist in the house?

52 posted on 04/12/2003 4:46 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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Obviously you aren't one to do any research.

I bet your mom feels the same way- carried you for months and then went through labor for you, then wasted a lot of money and time raising you, and you're still as ignorant as the day you were born.

53 posted on 04/12/2003 5:03 PM EDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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I'm getting hooked on your photos. Thanks again...

54 posted on 04/12/2003 5:30 PM EDT by tubebender (?)
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I think you should see if you can get permission to use these pictures and put them in a book with your poetry.

55 posted on 04/12/2003 5:31 PM EDT by tiki
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Thank you again

56 posted on 04/12/2003 5:38 PM EDT by tiki
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Thanks.

57 posted on 04/12/2003 5:40 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
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Freedom Bump!

58 posted on 04/12/2003 6:12 PM EDT by ThomasMore
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bttt

59 posted on 04/12/2003 6:15 PM EDT by BeforeISleep
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I am impressed with the American and British forces and moved beyond belief from the photos I have just seen thanks to you.

God Bless the children and adults in Iraq as they learn to adjust to a life without the worst fear imaginable laying across their shoulders day in and day out.

Everyday, as I grow in admiration of our troops, their military leaders, our President and his wise and uncorruptible administration, I find myself grateful and so very very thankful to God that I live in this very special nation.

And everyday, tho I did not think this was possible, I grow in greater disrespect and loathing for the liberals in our nation.

It has gotten personal.

Because if find their rhetoric beyond offensive, I find it traitorous.

And when I consider that that bulbous, cheap, lying sorry ex president klinton has been on American byways, saying whether or not we went to war should have been determined by Hans Blix, and saying the war would only last two days (in order to make anything longer seem like a failure), and other sick statements designed to cause a breech of trust in our current President, I simply seeth with longing to verbally assault this truly stupid sociopath with a bit of good old fashioned conservative mom ranting. He disgusts me and so does his legion of pathetic whining liberal girly-men and feminazis.

And as for the UN-why in the HELL didn't they MONITOR the oil for food program to ensure the Iraqis were getting the FOOD??????????? What the hell kind of a setup supplies FOOD to a tyrant who hates his own people enough to torture them? Who was making money from this program. My guess is that in there somewhere, within the UN, certain countries were making big money off this program.

I think it is past time to reconsider our role in the UN, and to state to the UN exactly what that role will be in the future.

60 posted on 04/12/2003 6:49 PM EDT by Republic
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Thank you Republic. Shout it from the rooftops.

61 posted on 04/12/2003 7:04 PM EDT by Brad's Gramma (Become a Monthly Donor to Free Republic)
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ohhh..reaching for kleenex (sniff)

In Memory of the Prison Artist

fantabulous!!

62 posted on 04/12/2003 7:09 PM EDT by thasea
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All right, dammit!
I'm an old crusty Marine, dammit!
I DON'T CRY, dammit!

I've just got something in my eyes!

63 posted on 04/12/2003 7:11 PM EDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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Thank you for posting these. Your doing an excellent
job.

64 posted on 04/12/2003 7:14 PM EDT by thasea
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I hope someone over there is preserving that drawing somehow. The photo is amazing, just incredible.

65 posted on 04/12/2003 7:16 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
[To 62]

Must be something in the air Tex.

I understand completely!

66 posted on 04/12/2003 7:26 PM EDT by LindaSOG (Freedom!)
[To 63]

Why all the Secret Service? They're at an airforce base for crying out loud. If they didn't want the press to see her, why didn't they just use a bunch of military?

Amid heavy security, former POW Jessica Lynch, center, is carried from a C-17 transport plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, April 12, 2003, in transit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to receive medical treatment. Lynch, 19, from Palestine, W.V., was captured March 23 after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.

67 posted on 04/12/2003 7:31 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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As an artist I couldn't agree more. It's meaning had to
have been recognized.

68 posted on 04/12/2003 7:37 PM EDT by thasea
[To 65]

Why all the Secret Service?

The President sent them, to, I believe I heard he said, "Take care of our girl".

69 posted on 04/12/2003 7:43 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
[To 67]

Chemical Weapon? No way.

Signed, Hans.

70 posted on 04/12/2003 7:52 PM EDT by b4its2late (I know what's best for you.)
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Bless you....HOW beautiful...sniff sniff

Please see this slide show, it is also a tear jerker tribute to our troops.
Some have had trouble loading it, and if so i'm told they need to upgrade Internet explorer.
Enjoy for those of you that can...
http://www.innovationsetc.com/Troopvideo.htm
Jan

71 posted on 04/12/2003 8:04 PM EDT by ZAKJAN
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Thanks for the info. But chalk me up for a 'duh'; I still don't get why the SS were needed.

72 posted on 04/12/2003 8:18 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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I prefer to look at it in a very positive light.

When she was rescued she was insistent that they promise not to leave her.

I get the sense that the entirety of the Armed Forces, including the CiC, feel a deep obligation to protect her.

That's my take.

73 posted on 04/12/2003 8:27 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
[To 72]

Granted she is the only POW we have recovered alive. But if I were her, I'd take one look at the SS and think there's been a threat on my life. And what about the other soldiers who are PTSD'd enough to not want to be alone?

Besides, she hasn't been on any civilian ground yet, just military bases, military vehicles and military hospitals. I'm trying to think positive, too, it merely seemed odd to me that there would be any reason for the SS at her side.

74 posted on 04/12/2003 8:43 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
[To 73]

Maybe there's a threat we don't know about.

75 posted on 04/12/2003 8:49 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
[To 74]

Bump for our weopons Inspectors

Thanks Diogenesis.
so Many of my friends and enemys really understand the truth of Iraq now because of your efforts and I thank you!!

76 posted on 04/12/2003 8:50 PM EDT by Rightly Biased (<><)
[To 1]

There aren't any chemical weapons in Iraq, Blix told the UN and they believed him.

Do you think the UN inspectors ever looked in an ammo bunker?

77 posted on 04/12/2003 8:55 PM EDT by snooker
[To 2]

Amen.

78 posted on 04/12/2003 9:23 PM EDT by visualops (Let's go freeple! Get on the monthly!)
[To 22]

Airman 1st Class Edward Crofoot, 100th Security Forces Squadron, Mildenhall Air Base, 86th Expeditionary Contingency Response Group, greets local children during a long halt listening post/observation post during patrol on April 9, 2003, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Children and adults in this region have been supportive and friendly to the coalition forces here. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Rich Puckett) (Released)

Photo by: TSGT RICH PUCKETT, SEMBACH ANNEX
Record ID No. (VIRIN): 030409-F-0762P-014

79 posted on 04/12/2003 9:45 PM EDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
[To 20]

I thought fantasy art was a teenage boy thing

Actually fantasy art has a huge following of all ages. Like any other genre, some is better than others. The styles represented range from realism to the surreal, from oil to watercolor.
Some of the most recognized, unique and beautiful works, from the Medieval Cluny tapestry unicorns to the Hildebrandt brothers or H.R. Giger, are fantasy art pieces.

80 posted on 04/12/2003 9:53 PM EDT by visualops (Let's go freeple! Get on the monthly!)
[To 52]

The anti-warriors and ant-Americans must believe that Iraqis are not actually fully human. They must believe that Iraqis are a specie of sub-humans who are perfectly happy having their babies raped, the fathers and mothers tortured, imprisoned and killed to please brutal, barbaric Saddam.

There was a time when people believed that blacks were happy in slavery because they were 'not fully human'.

It does not surprise me that the liberal/lefties still believe there are peoples who are perfectly happy in slavery
. The liberal/lefties hope to bring that sort of happiness to Americans.

I am so very, very, very, grateful that our President Bush knows the fully human longing of AlL people to be free of starvation and brutallity by their governments.

God bless and keep safe our incredible U.S. military troops, and our President.

81 posted on 04/12/2003 10:13 PM EDT by WaterDragon (Only America has the moral authority and the resolve to lead the world in the 21st Century.)
[To 2]

The value of that one shell might depend on whose on the receiving end of it. Perhaps you would consider the cost very reasonable were that shell aimed at you, eh?

82 posted on 04/12/2003 10:15 PM EDT by WaterDragon (Only America has the moral authority and the resolve to lead the world in the 21st Century.)
[To 17]

The particular color and brilliance of the eyes in these children make me think they are due to a nutritional deficiency or some sort of chronic poisoning. I think I've read about this somewhere. Anyone know anything about this?

83 posted on 04/12/2003 10:21 PM EDT by WaterDragon (Only America has the moral authority and the resolve to lead the world in the 21st Century.)
[To 14]

what does the federal gov't do to support the wives and children of those lost in military service?

Do they get any kind of special tax breaks, educational scholarships for the kids, or any kind of home loan assistance?

84 posted on 04/12/2003 11:25 PM EDT by bonesmccoy (Defeat the terrorists... Vaccinate!)
[To 22]

BTTT

85 posted on 04/13/2003 1:22 AM EDT by yonif
[To 2]

Well, after reading the Drudge report Blix is stating that whe have planted evidnence. Before the war O'reilly said that this would happen. This is just another reason to why I have thought for several years that the UN is a waste of money and space. I think that the UN building could really help alot of people that need space to to live in. That is just my opinion.

86 posted on 04/13/2003 2:29 AM EDT by lndrvr1972
[To 50]

But if you listen to the press, no WMD's have been found. Not one. They are burying their heads in the sand once again and will be "shocked" when the stores are finally found.

Yep, they keep stressing on how there have been 20 discoveries and emphasis how nothing found, this out of at least 2000 hits we need to look at. And the UN and blixie Boy (I thought he was retiring btw),are itching to try and bully their way back to inspections.

87 posted on 04/13/2003 2:40 AM EDT by JustPiper (Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
[To 11]

Lampsos, who has publicly claimed to be his mistress.

Well, if Sadam was alive and his wife saw this, he'd be DED!

88 posted on 04/13/2003 2:45 AM EDT by JustPiper (Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
[To 27]

I have seen about 4 tear jearkers like this, but this one covered the lost troops, it was beautiful!

89 posted on 04/13/2003 2:55 AM EDT by JustPiper (Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
[To 71]

Every military member has a 100,000 dollar life insurance policy, and most pay the few extra dollars for the 200,000 coverage. Shame on me for knowing much more than that, but based on my experience in the military I'm sure the spouse will continue getting regular paychecks for three months or longer and all arrangements are made for them to move from base housing (if need be). If they live off base they have the option to move to where ever they want and the military will move them for free. I'm betting that the spouse will probably be able to have base privledges for a lengthy period of time. The military is compassionate and won't push and force the family to depart quickly. I've never talked with anyone about what happens if someone dies in combat, but I know that if someone dies from a car accident etc. or a Divorce etc. The family is the higher priority because it is the members duty to care for his or her family. When I lived on base my neighbor and her 5 children lived on base and the active duty member lived off base (separation agreement).

90 posted on 04/13/2003 3:32 AM EDT by tommyG
[To 84]

http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/dependents/Spouse.htm

Bonesmccoy, there is also a childrens area on this same website. I didn't do much reading but it looks like there are several helps for the surviving family members.

91 posted on 04/13/2003 3:59 AM EDT by tommyG
[To 84]

http://www.va.gov/pubaff/fedben/fedben.pdf

this is even better -- adobe acrobat, with a nice index.

92 posted on 04/13/2003 4:04 AM EDT by tommyG
[To 91]

Awesome as always, thanks

93 posted on 04/13/2003 9:23 AM EDT by apackof2 (Has anyone seen my tagline?)
[To 1]

A great photo that tells a wonderful story. An Iraqi father wastes no time in teaching his son about freedom and the difference between respect and fear. I'm sure this young man will remember this day the rest of his life.

94 posted on 04/13/2003 9:43 AM EDT by Toskrin
[To 36]

ping!

Thanks for another awesome thread, Diogenesis!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ping list.

95 posted on 04/13/2003 10:41 AM EDT by nutmeg (Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
[To 1]

Alas, words, again, fail me. Your photos and comments say so much more than all of the print Clymers and presstitutes combined....

96 posted on 04/13/2003 12:40 PM EDT by eureka! (Bless our Troops and Allies and the freed Iraqis and DAMN CNN TO HELL........)
[To 1]

Where ever Saddam is now, he's probably lucky if he can speak...or shrug his shoulders.

Actually he's lucky if he has any shoulders to shrug.

97 posted on 04/13/2003 6:38 PM EDT by El Gato
[To 32]

If they didn't want the press to see her, why didn't they just use a bunch of military?

Don't be so sure that just because they are not in uniform that they are not military. That said, Andrews is where the President comes and goes from also, so some Secret Service pressence wouldn't be all that unusual. If they really wanted to keep the press from seeing her, they could ban them from Andrews AFB, or from the flight line at least. It's a big flight line though, with some "out of the way" spots where the plane could have been taxied to and the patients trasnferred from the Medivac C-17 to ambulences.

98 posted on 04/13/2003 6:51 PM EDT by El Gato
[To 67]

Thanks, you just gave a bunch of good reasons to convince me it's possibly not that odd. It's still a little odd, though.

99 posted on 04/13/2003 7:15 PM EDT by sciencediet (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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