Well, we're going to war, so POST AWESOME MILITARY PICS

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Ned


Was this law put in place after WWII?

That, or more likely during the war. We sold plenty of iron ore to Germany but I don't think we sold any more Bofors 88 mm AA guns after the war started.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Olaf HÃ¥rfagre


That, or more likely during the war. We sold plenty of iron ore to Germany but I don't think we sold any more Bofors 88 mm AA guns after the war started.

thats good, but they sure did use those sons of guns with great effectiveness.

[Gangerolf]

bang

[Lonestar]

More pics from the front.



In Tikrit, Baath party HQ is hit


In Tikrit, the Fedayin, Saddam's paramilitary volunteer
force, led by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's eldest son
Uday pose for the camera

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In Umm Qasr, the marines attack with Cobras.





In Umm Qasr, the Iraqis, freed by the USA, cheer

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The Battle for Basra, with Brit Troops









In Basra, Iraq, Iraqis, adults and children welcome the
British 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.

[Lonestar]

Yet more pics from the front.










In Basra, burning Iraqi armored personnel carriers and abandoned Iraqi artillery.


Near al Nasiriyah, US 3rd Army fires MRLS.




In southern Iraq, at the al-Ratka oilfield, at the burning oil wells.








At the North Ramala oilfield, the British Army's 16 Air Assault Brigade
keeps watch.


Scots Dragoon guards move into southern Iraq.


In southern Iraq, US troops take control.


In southern Iraq, with the 101st Airborne Aviation Brigade, a group of freed Bedouins.




In southern Iraq, with the 3rd Infantry Division.


In Khormal, northern Iraq, Iraqi soldiers cover up the body of
Australian freelance cameraman Paul Moran, 39, who was murdered in
an Islamic attack or premature/inadvertant detonation. Journalists
had gone to the checkpoint to interview refugees, but one of
the cars coming out with the refugees exploded.



In Khormal, an Iraqi Kurd Peshmerga fighter faces the Ansar al-Islam
and Islamic Komala on the frontline with Iraqi al Qaeda..


North of Kuwait City, Patriot missile batteries protect the Ali al-Salem airbase


In Kuwaiti , a citizen shouts 'Bush is a real man! God save him, his
father liberated Kuwait, and now his son Bush is liberating Iraq.'.





On the USS Harry S. Truman, 2,000-lbs GBU-31 JDAM ordnance and F-14 Tomcat.




On the USS Kitty Hawk, GBU-24 'Bunker Buster' Hard Target Penatrator 2,000 lb bomb.


Somewhere below the magentosphere, KC-135 Stratotankers from
the 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, refuel a B-2
stealth bomber, forward deployed with the 40th Air Expeditionary
Wing in the first ever deployment of B-2 bombers.[/quote]

[Lonestar]

[Dis]

I don't believe they were cheering for the U.S. liberating them. We know that would never happen.

[Dis]

LOL

That bomb is under warranty. So if it misses and hits civilians we can sue the manufacturer and the U.S. is not to blame

Unfortunately it is expired *

[Lonestar]

Yeah, I thought that was funny too.

[Lonestar]

U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division soldiers secure a field near Najaf, Iraq,
early Sunday. The U.S.-led forces were within 100 miles of Baghdad,
but had encountered some areas of stiff resistance from Iraq troops.


A British Royal Marine from 42 Commando fires a Milan wire-guided
missile at an Iraqi position on the Al Faw peninsula in southern Iraq
on Friday.


A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit discards a
portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein he removed it from
the command office of the southern Iraqi naval base in Az Zubayar.


In this image from video, a U.S. Marine fires a Javelin missile, a
portable shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon, at a building near
Umm Qasr, Iraq, during a battle with Iraqi forces Sunday,
March 23, 2003.


A British army soldier shows thumbs-up from the top of
a Challenger tank, as a big convoy of armored vehicle
rolls toward the southern Iraqi town of Basra, March 22, 2003

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

GREAT PICS LONESTAR!!

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Chilean President
GREAT PICS LONESTAR!!

erm....thanks. You being sarcastic?

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

Originally posted by Lonestar


erm....thanks. You being sarcastic?

no, I mean it, they're acctually very good pics
I don't like too much the pic of that guy dead but the rest is pretty cool, specially the one of Saddam portrait being destroyed

[Chemical Ollie]

Nice pictures. But you might want to edit the post, as some pics were added twice.

[Kramerman]

indeed, great pics! where do you find all these, or is that your trade secret?