Fledermaus
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Fledermaus Groundhog Day
I expected you to pick up on that line about the Iraqi Republican Guard given you are predictable in your glib and trite posts. Fact is I have only mentioned RG several times and only in passing. A good for instance is that I mentioned the RG in Kuwait high tailed it to escape the Marines but got caught by USAF in Iraq on the Highway of Death to make up for it. Marines in Kuwait ended up fighting the heat as much as anything else. (OMG!)
Youse knowing and false, concocted, statements of the past several pages are worse than all the false and mangled statements you'd made previously, over the ten months of your fiasco initiated and undertaken here. It is a clear indicator of how youse have become desperate and are on the ropes. Youse thereby confirm and validate my statement I've made consistently over the past ten months that time is not on your side in this mad campaign you started with USMC Gunnery Sergeant bluster and that now has been reduced to a desperate wimpering.
So I mean to preclude any one particular poster putting forward his own USMC high intensity PR account of the Marines in Kuwait in February 1991....
On 24 February 1991, the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions, and the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion crossed into Kuwait and headed toward Kuwait City. They encountered trenches, barbed wire, and minefields. However, these positions were poorly defended, and were overrun in the first few hours. Several tank battles took place, but apart from that, coalition troops encountered minimal resistance, as most Iraqi troops surrendered. The general pattern was that the Iraqis would put up a short fight before surrendering. However, Iraqi air defenses shot down nine US aircraft. Meanwhile, forces from Arab states advanced into Kuwait from the east, encountering little resistance and suffering few casualties.
t was feared that the Iraqi Republican Guard would escape into Iraq before it could be destroyed. It was decided to send British armored forces into Kuwait 15 hours ahead of schedule, and to send US forces after the Republican Guard. The coalition advance was preceded by a heavy artillery and rocket barrage, after which 150,000 troops and 1,500 tanks began their advance. Iraqi forces in Kuwait counterattacked against US troops, acting on a direct order from Saddam Hussein himself. Despite the intense combat, the Americans repulsed the Iraqis and continued to advance towards Kuwait City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Kuwait.27s_liberation
Despite the intense combat. So hey, it wuz a war here and there eh. The bottom line is that numerous units of Iraqi Republican Guards in Kuwait evaded the huge Marine Expeditionary Forces hustling into Kuwait to in fact flee with a swarm of tanks and heavy artillery. (OMG!)
Duplicate BS is duplicated BS.