breaking on FOX - Airborne division in firefight now

[grasswire]

FOX news just broke into their regular programming to tell of a firefight involving the 82nd Airborne. Will post more info as it becomes available.

Time magazine pundit said Bush will be in trouble because some Republicans in Congress are peeling away on Bushco management of the war.

[grasswire]

1. FOX..

..has an embed with the troops involved in the firefight. Described as "intense."

[RobertSeattle]

17. Ever heard of a non-intense firefight?

[Noordam]

25. Only by people that never were in a firefight

:evilgrin:

[californication]

35. Ditto

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Is the 82nd in Iraq or Afghanistan?

Somebody posted something earlier from Al Jazeera saying us troops had surround Taliban leadership.

[htuttle]

3. Are they in Iraq?

Or in Afghanistan?
Or Columbia?
Or the Philippines?
Or Sudan?

I've lost track...

[benfranklin1776]

7. Me too.

n/t

[damnraddem]

26. The 101st is in Iraq. Where's the 82nd?

And do they still have a third rapid-response force in reserve in the U.S.? In fact, I thought they were always supposed to have two in reserve.

[benfranklin1776]

4. Which theater of operations?

Afghanistan or Iraq? AS soldiers are fighting and possibly dying, GI George is of course where, golfing, dog-dropping, fund-raising?

[NNN0LHI]

5. Is the 82nd in Iraq or Afghanistan if you know? n/t

[underpants]

6. In Afghanistan?

I thought the 101st is in IRaq and the 82nd is in Afghanistan.

[grasswire]

8. I think the FOX chick misspoke...

...the freepers are saying it is the 101st Airborne.

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Saw that too...

So is the 101st in Iraq or Afghanistan?

Bueller. Bueller. Bueller.

[underpants]

11. 101st is in Iraq

[grasswire]

12. 101st is in Iraq (eom)

[RapidCreek]

39. I believe

the 82nd is currently deployed both in Afghanistan and Northern Iraq and the 101st is in Iraq alone....though I may be wrong. If things have not changed since I was in...the 82nd are paratroopers and the 101st are helicopter jumpers (airmobile).

RC

[Divernan]

10. Google says deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom, 3/17/03

82nd Airborne, that is.

ON EDIT: Google says 101st was in Kuwait in April, but is now in Iraq.

[leetrisck]

19. 82nd

is in Afghanistan.

[Divernan]

27. They were in Afganistan last year; now they're in Iraq.

"The 82nd Airborne Division, which helped overwhelm the airport on its way to Baghdad this week, can be viewed as the New York Yankees of the U. S. army - a unit filled with stars."

See Naples Daily News, April 5th, 2003.
I tried the link from Google, but it no longer works. However you can see the article on Google for verification.

Unless they've been returned to Afghanistan

[Cush]

13. freepers saying its in Mosul

they seem to think Saddam is about to be caught or killed in order to make Kerry look like a fool on "his big day"

[grasswire]

14. the embed...

..is named Mike Tobin.

[Divernan]

15. What are some US dead, more wounded to upstage Kerry in the news?

This is exactly the way Bush uses his military! It's the kiss of death to have a Faux reporter embedded with a military unit - because Bush knows he'll get the most favorable coverage on a battle from Faux.

[eek]

20. at least the freepers admit the distractics exist!

"Goodness the timing couldn't be better.

Remember we got the boys, Osay and Quday, the same day Gephardt spoke about the President's "failed foreign policy". Maybe the military can help out and supply us with Sadaam to make Ketchup Boy Kerry look like an even bigger fool on his big day."

Since so much hot air gets blown denying stuff like this - they don't buy it either.

[wryter2000]

28. Gag, barf

These people (freepers) are sick. Our soldiers are taking a pounding, and they're celebrating???!!! They should be made to notify the families. Bastards...

[Caution]

18. Fine by me...

catch him now...then bush will have a nice long 14 months until the election. 14 months of no new possible victories in Iraq. Every day from here out is a nightmare for the Bush administration if they catch him.

[asjr]

21. fight

August is over. Now it is time for the marketing. They have probably literally had Sadamm "on ice" for sometime and waited for the right time to "capture" him. Nothing is too evil for this administration.

[Flubadubya]

29. I thought the exact same thing asjr...

even about the sons.

[demdave]

16. The 82nd is in Iraq...they believe it is a couple guys with RPGs.

That is what the reporter there was saying. Low level guerilla (?) tactic. A couple of RPGs fired and then run and hide. They were sending out the Delta fast response teams in Hummers when I saw it. Said it was not the kind of thing that rose to the level of an airstrike response.

[eek]

22. "was Kerry in Vietnam?"

genius on freep sez:

"SwinneySwitch

Wasn't Ketchup Boy Kerry in Vietnam?

First I heard of such a claim!

I'll do some research and see if I can confirm!"

Goes to show you how hafbaked they are. They'll pick up on the slurs or the disinformation but not the other stuff.

And anyway, how is being a wealthy guy bad for Kerry but completely ok for their boy, aWol?
At least kerry didn't get his money from the nazis.

[demdave]

23. Was that in response to me???

[grasswire]

24. fox ticker says...

...an RPG attack on U.S. base in Iraq, a quick response team sent out to get the bad guys.

[californication]

36. Kerry was in vietnam

He was that guy that orded the slaughter of that village during the tet offensive If my memory serves me correctly... I would have to look that up to be sure but he did serve in vietnam.

[radfringe]

37. you go the wrong Kerry

think you are talking about BOB Kerry, not John

http://www.citizen-soldier.org/cs13-Bob%20Kerry.html

Last spring, Greg Vistica broke the story about a massacre of some twenty women and children by a Navy SEAL team commanded by former Senator Bob Kerrey that took place over thirty years ago in Vietnam. At the urging of his agent, Vistica has now turned the article, which ran originally in the New York Times Magazine, (April 29, 2001) into a book length work, The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey. Vistica's deeper professional motive for keeping Kerrey in his cross hairs was his desire "to get as close to the truth as possible," closer presumably than in the initial expose.

In the 'zine version, Vistica pits one eyewitness recollection of what took place in the hamlet of Thanh Phong on February 25, 1969 against another: Bob Kerrey alleges that the unarmed civilians were killed from a distance of a hundred yards in the confusion of a fire fight; while his fellow SEAL, Gerhard Klann, is adamant that the victims were rounded up and shot point blank. In his book, Vistica concludes without ambiguity that "Klann's is the most accurate version," and that "Kerrey is not a truth teller

[californication]

41. Your right...

I looked it up and I found that out. Thanks

[JoFerret]

30. Is it a fair and balanced fight?

...and you are watching Faux because....?

[Karenina]

31. This wins the prize

for the most BIZARRE thread I have ever read.

[plcdude]

32. o I don't know

there are some pretty weird ones every now and again check people like matcom, evilgop, catwoman I love 'em.

[JoFerret]

42. I don't get it

...what is bizarre about it? The firefight? A DU watching Faux as a news source?.....?

[legin]

33. A rough guide of troop disposition

http://www.militarycity.com/map/

[ellie]

34. My nephew is in the 82nd

stationed in northern Iraq. I am not up on my military terminology, but, 1/3 of the division (?) was in Afghanistan, 1/3 was in Iraq, and 1/3 was home and they are cycling them through. He just went there recently.

[Tinoire]

40. Wherever your nephew is...

I pray he stay safe and come home soon.

Let him know there are lots of vets rooting for him and that while we're ashamed of this war, we're 100% behind the soldiers who are serving honorably.

Peace

[Bake]

38. What mAnnthrax refers to as "getting their hair mussed."

Crack whore!

Bake