Author Topic: Iraqi losses ? (Read 2498 times)

Hristo · « **on:** March 21, 2003, 06:38:25 AM »

How many so far ?

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2003, 06:55:21 AM »

who cares ...

lost at least 8 on our side if you are counting....

Hristo · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:11:21 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
who cares ...

Hmm, I didn't expect any better, somehow.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:25:36 AM »

1 well known PLF member dead

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http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen032003b.asp

More Bad News for Daschle
Taking out terror of all nationalities

The vision-challenged opponents of the war against the terror masters, those who have been saying that you can't fight Saddam and terrorism at the same time, got bad news today from Baghdad. It turns out that our surgical strike on Wednesday night - the one aimed at the "top leadership" of Saddam's little hell-between-two-rivers - got an unexpected bonus: a terrorist from the Palestine Liberation Front. And the good news comes not from the Pentagon but from the PLF itself.

According to UPI, the Palestine Liberation Front said Thursday one of its guerrillas was killed during the U.S. missile strikes on Iraq. A PFL statement released in the southern city of Sidon (Syrian-occupied Lebanon) identified the slain guerrilla as 1st Lieutenant Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz who was killed early Thursday "while confronting the treacherous U.S. air bombardment on Iraq."

I don't know anything about the late Mr. Al-Baz, but I know all too much about the PLF and its evil leader, Abu Abbas. This was the group that organized the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro back in the mid-1980s. They segregated the American passengers from the rest, and then courageously pushed an American Jewish paraplegic in his wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, into the Mediterranean. We tried to have Abu Abbas arrested in Italy, but he escaped through Yugoslavia to Yemen.

The PLF has long been one of the most lethal Palestinian terrorist groups, and achieved notoriety for its high-tech killings. Recently, Abu Abbas had come to live in the Palestinian Authority, but when Israel moved against the terrorists there he ran away - to Baghdad. The PLF has been one of the main conduits for Iraqi money to Palestinian suicide bombers.

So, in a single stroke, we have demonstrated the rightness of our cause and the wisdom of President Bush. It makes no sense to distinguish between the terrorists and the regimes that support them, for they are one and the same. We targeted a high-level meeting of top Iraqi officials, and willy-nilly eliminated a member of the terror network. Time will tell just how good and how lucky we were in the opening salvo of the Second Gulf War. But there is already cause for satisfaction.

Somebody should tell Daschle and Byrd.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:34:46 AM »

74,319 have been killed in the past two days as the USA contiunes its criminally merciless and indescrimnate campaign against the civilan population centers of iraq...

AronL · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:53:22 AM »

One life lost is one to many

Does not matter what country the person happened to be born in.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:56:32 AM »

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Originally posted by AronL
One life lost is one to many

Does not matter what country the person happened to be born in.

But there are no terrorists in Bagdad

AronL · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:05:22 AM »

Saddam qualifies as a terrorist (terrorising his fellow iraqis) in my book, and most of his closest family so they are fair game in my book

Toad · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:05:55 AM »

But losing a few to save many.......... what of that?

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:13:06 AM »

Allow me to explain AronL's statement:

Yea Saddam is a bad guy and I hate him and i want him gone but I dont want you do anything to get rid of him except constantly repeat that he is a bad guy and that he must be gotten rid of.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:15:47 AM »

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Originally posted by AronL
Saddam qualifies as a terrorist (terrorising his fellow iraqis) in my book, and most of his closest family so they are fair game in my book

You sure changed your tune fast:

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AronL said "There is no indication that Iraq sponsors terrorism or Al Quaida.

That being said, this terrorist was hit by one of the missles fired at "Targets of opportunity" which was where the Iraq leadership command was rumored to be at.

Modas · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:19:12 AM »

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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Allow me to explain AronL's statement:

Yea Saddam is a bad guy and I hate him and i want him gone but I dont want you do anything to get rid of him except constantly repeat that he is a bad guy and that he must be gotten rid of.

hehehe beat me to the punch Grun

AronL · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:20:51 AM »

Loosing afew of "our" soldiers to save many sivilians in the future you mean?

Tricky question to answer i think, but is there any gurantee that we actually save any in the future?

Will this attack on Iraq stop future terrorist attacks on the US or any other nation?. or will it enhance the resolve and hate that many organisations/individuals and countries have agains us?

This war is a gamble and i dont think its the correct way to fight terrorism and or make the world a safer place for all.

We will not know the outcome of this thing for many years ...if ever.

Without the UN supporting this war, it will without a doubt be a huge propaganda victory for all the "groups" that already has a grudge against us and in that respect this war has already been lost.

Eagler · « **Reply #13 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:23:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Hristo
Hmm, I didn't expect any better, somehow.

please name any other conflict, in history, where the money, technology and weapons were used to minimize CIVILIAN losses as what you see in this one .... hmm??

some will die, that is why they call it war ... fewer will die if/when they follow instructions provided by the advancing allied forces and/or stay the hell out of the way ...

Eagler · « **Reply #14 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:24:34 AM »

AronL, aren't you late for school??? what are you 15?