When the Dungeon Doors Swing Open...

various FR links | 04-09-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[Spruce]

Over 50% of Iraq is under the age of 20

Iraqis cheer the arrival of U.S. Army forces to their neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003.

Iraqi boys in a village near the city of Najaf in Central Iraq appear glad to be back in school April 4, for the first time since the war started. U.S. Army soldiers from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion helped clean up the school that was damaged by artillery fire. The soldiers also took money out of their own pockets to pay the teacher several months salary in advance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

A soldier from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion speaks with a boy while bags of rice and wheat are delivered to a village near the city of Najaf in central Iraq on April 4. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

An Iraqi girl attends to her lessons April 4 in a village school near the city of Najaf. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

An Iraqi boy offers a flower to a British solider during patrols in Basra, April 8, 2003. Photo by Mark Richards, Pool/Reuters

Young girls hold hands as they walk with their father down a street on the outskirts of the town of Al Hillah south of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

A smiling Iraqi woman holds her baby as a column of U.S. vehicles from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor passes through the town of Kerbala south west of Baghdad, April 7, 2003.

A member of 21 Squadron in Britain's 3 Regular Army Air Corps, 16 Air Assault Brigade, walks beside an Iraqi boy near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Iraqi women and children dance with joy as they see soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment enter their village, north of the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003

British Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade throw chocolate bars from their ration packs to Iraqi children, in the village of Qaryat Nasr north of of the city of Basra, in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Baby W!

Regimental Combat Team 1 gives medical attention to Iraqi civilians who led the Marines to a weapons cache in Aziz, Iraq

An Iraqi boy flashes a victory sign as he walks with U.S. soldiers shortly after they entered central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

Residents wave at U.S. Marines of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment as they drive by while clearing an area of potential threats, about ten miles east of downtown Baghdad on Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, John Makely)

No captions for these next photos. But they are My Favorites!

[river rat]

Bookmarked,
Thanks
Semper Fi

[antaresequity]

You know what though?

None of this matters to the Leftists. Nothing here will disuade them this wasnt about oil....and they will just show you gruesome pictures of tragic collatoral damage...

They will all say: of course we knew Saddam's regime was evil....but look what we did...

None of this will matter to the leftist...

The moderate Liberals are already convinced...look at the polls

Great job By the Way!

Mega bump

[Grampa Dave]

Bravo! A great job by one of the best indexers and data collectors on Free Republic.

I have bookmarked this great documentation and indexing for future use.

Please do us a favor and come back to this thread with replies to document your upcoming finds, documentation and indexing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!

Backhoe --- Magnificent work!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Grampa Dave]

Incredible job by Backhoe!

[lonevoice]

Thank you!!

[ellery]

index bump - and thanks.

[backhoe]

Thank you all, very much... trying to wake up after the !#$%! dog dragged me out to hunt some ( invisible to me ) intruder... I did run across a little more:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889655/posts
Suspected Torture Chamber Found in Iraq
AP | 4/10/03 | DOUG MELLGREN
I want to see them spout that "we are killing Iraqi children" BS after seeing this.
I wonder what Jeanane Garofalo would say then???

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889511/posts
Batchelor & Alexander: Libya harboring Iraqi Nuke Scientists and hardened production facility
www.wabcradio.com ^
Brazil's new leader began bragging about going nuclear several months ago.
Saddam was a very busy man. There is a lot of work ahead.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889651/posts
The FARC, Venezuela and Brazil: Growing Security Concerns in South America
STRATFOR ^ | Apr 09, 2003


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889479/posts
Iraqis ditching documents in Brazil?
UPI ^ | Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | Carmen Gentile

[happygrl]

Bless you backhoe for thinking ahead. This is also a memorial to remind us, in part, why our soldiers fought and died. The evil here must not be forgotten.

[happygrl]

BOOKMARKED!

[backhoe]

I had originally planned to title this "Storming the Dungeons..." and write a little essay drawing parallels between current events in Iraq and how many years ago a band of warriors, now old men, or dead, had stormed Fortress Europe, and how the stench of Pure Evil had come wafting into their noses.

About how there had been hints and stories told for years, and how we looked away then, and did not want to see or hear-- but then reality and facts got in the way of that blissful ignorance...

In the end I did not write this for I just got overloaded by scrolling back through all those links.

I have discussed privately with my wife how I think Saddam and his regime are actually worse than most modern dictatorships, except maybe Pol Pot's...

[Mia T]

great work, backhoe! thx!!

[Mia T]

ping!

[backhoe]

Thanks, Mia T... thanks, happygrl... I don't think I'll ever manage to catch up with all the replies...

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping Mia

[PogySailor]

Excellent! Bumping and bookmarking.

[The Raven]

ping

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking!

[metesky]

All credit to you sir, for gathering all this info into one bookmarkable place.

I spit on the left.