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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 04:53 PM
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Tucker just said he didn't see 1 soldier driving from Kuwait to Baghdad?
That don't sound right. Does that sound right?

Don

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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 04:55 PM
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1. hmmm wonder where they are?
Doesn't sound right to me.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 04:58 PM
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2. Said they drove over 100 MPH the whole way only stopping once...
Edited on Mon Dec-15-03 05:01 PM by NNN0LHI
...when his security detail all jumped out with machine guns drawn at a gas station and commandeered the place to fill up.

Don

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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 05:36 PM
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4. They needed to make a potty stop for Tucker
but he had already soiled himself by then.
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jpgpenn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 05:01 PM
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3. that is because...
that lil brat was hiding under the seats!
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 05:49 PM
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5. He's lucky he didn't get his butt shot.
It doesn't sound like he knows what the hell he's doing? In a strange country that is not all that stable and to travel alone for that distance isn't brave, it's stupid.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 08:13 PM
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6. Here is the transcript kentuck. Sounds like a war zone. Its worth reading
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/15/cf.00.html

<snip>CARVILLE: Good. Tell us about how you got to Baghdad and about that drive to Baghdad. I think our audience would be interested in that. snip

Didn't see a single American soldier until we arrived at the CNN bureau here at the Palestine Hotel. Not a single one.

And drove very fast. I went with Kelly McCann, a CNN contributor, a frequent CROSSFIRE guest and guys who work for him, mostly ex-Special Forces. We drove about 100, 120 most of the way, heavily armed.

Pulled over for gas at one point. There are these enormous gas lines here, four-mile long gas lines in some cases. Pulled in, you know, nine armed guys with machine guns got out of our cars, out of our convoy, sort of took over the gas station, you know, blocked off entrance, searched cars, looked through cars, that kind of thing, while we filled up.

People seem like it's threatening. One of the guys I was traveling with is a former Marine recon guy, Special Forces guy, who spent five months in Somalia in the early '90s. And he said he believed after living here for six months that it's more dangerous than Mogadishu, is what he said.

more

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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 11:15 PM
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7. Tucker looked alittle
rattled didn't he?
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