US navy bombs Iraq

[DuctapeFatwa]

The US navy has admitted dropping a 900kg (2000 pound) bomb on what is believed to be an Iraqi resistance base north of Baghdad.


In a statement issued on Sunday, US Naval Forces Central Command confirmed last Friday's attack when F18 Hornet jets took off from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.

The target was "enemy mortar positions" near Balad, just north of the Iraqi capital. "It was the carrier's first use of precision-guided munitions since the beginning of the new year," the statement said.

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[righttherefeelsgood]

1. Is this really breaking news?

I mean, a bomb is dropped in a country that's been involved in a war for 10 months?

[leftchick]

2. It is if they are dropping bombs on innocent civilians...

Which is most likely what happened....

[tridim]

3. Bush declared "Mission Accomplished"

and the end of major combat 6 months ago. Dropping 2000 pound bombs is about as major as it gets.

[NNN0LHI]

15. Actually it was the "end of combat in Iraq". They added the "major" later

The White House web site was scrubbed and updated not too long ago. There were several threads about it.

Don

[haele]

17. If you have to use an aircraft carrier ...

to bomb an inland target, it's major combat. I guess that as usual, this administration claimed something that they have no understanding of what the accepted definition would be to anyone with a dictionary. Definations of words like "accomplished" or "mission" or "major combat"...

Haele

[leesa]

8. But we haven't been at war, remember? We are "peacekeeping"

[Ms. Clio]

9. "peacekeeping" Israeli style n/t

[0007]

4. ...just another feel good story about our war department making us safe.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Memories for the Iraqi's to remember their "Liberators"

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ya - I 'd say it's LBN - story is at above link

More destruction for the Iraqis to remember the USA by:


. . .900kg of explosives caused mass destruction in Balad

[Racenut20]

6. Whats this ???? Isn't the war over????

Bin in captivity?
Iraq a peace loving democracy?
The natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan nearly completed?
The economy booming?
All of our children reading and math whizzes?
All the seniors sitting around the shuffleboard court taking their affordable medicines?
Gee, where am I????? Was that only a dream?

[annagull]

7. I guess they will call this one Operation Payback

because of the mortar attacks on the base near there last week. Winning more hearts and minds...

[IndianaGreen]

10. That's a lot of TNT to be dropped near an urban area

The destructive power of a 2,000 pound bomb extents to a much larger radius than its target. People will die if they are within a mile of it.

[DuctapeFatwa]

11. "People will die if they are within a mile of it."

yes. This appears to be a routine population reduction operation. I posted it here because it had not been mentioned in the regime-supported CrusadeNets.

[daleo]

13. People will die if they are within a mile of it. (2)

That sounds like a weapon of mass destruction. Clever of Saddam to hide them on a U.S. aircraft carrier.

[Just Me]

12. THE "FREON NEOCON" FORM OF FREEDOM AND LIBERATION

KILL THOUSANDS TO PUNISH A FEW!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. While you let the few get away again

n/t

[are_we_united_yet]

16. Mission Accomplished

no wait.....
OK
Mission Accomplished
Damn!
OK now
Mission Accomplished
Why those SOB's....
OK put it up now
Mission Accomplished
F#ck It! Lets bomb em'!
OK now
Mission Accomplished
Take that G#dd#m3ed banner down again
Bomb em again.
OK now
Mission Accomplished
Wait!. Are those some Baathist elemental pockets of Sadaam Loyalists de la resistance over there?
.....

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