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Pentagon Plans for POWs As U.S. Girds for Iraq War
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Tuesday, March 4, 2003 | NEIL KING JR. and JESS BRAVIN

Posted on 03/04/2003 6:34:22 AM PST by TroutStalker

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army's Second Armored Cavalry Regiment stormed into Iraq in the first land thrust of Desert Storm 12 years ago to seek and battle the elite Republican Guard. Within a day, it had another job: tending to hundreds of surrendered Iraqi soldiers.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: warlist

1 posted on 03/04/2003 6:34:22 AM PST by TroutStalker
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To: TroutStalker
Thats quite a bit of surrender monkeys... I bet France would be envious at such an overwhelming force of white flaggers.
2 posted on 03/04/2003 8:04:06 AM PST by smith288 (Singes qui capitulent et mangent du fromage)
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To: *war_list
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
3 posted on 03/04/2003 8:07:36 AM PST by Free the USA (Stooge for the Rich)
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