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Divine Wind
usahog Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 12-06-1999
Posts: 22,691
Things we didn't know about the war........ When 50,000 of our American boys were out in the middle of the Iraqi desert a few weeks ago a DIVINE WIND blew across the desert for three days followed by a drenching rain. The Muslim media said it was the worst sand storm in 100 years, and the Mullahs in 20+ Muslim countries proclaimed that the storm was sent by Allah when our troops were bogged down and couldn't move. The left-wing media [CNN, CBS, MSNBC & ABC, the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune/LA Times and lots of others] trotted out politicians and military experts that proclaimed we were in a "quagmire" and they all made dire predictions of gloom and doom. What they didn't report [all except for Fox News and many smaller regional and hometown newspapers] was that after the weather cleared, the Marine group that was mired the worst looked out at the plain they were just about to cross. What did they see? Thousands upon thousands of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines that had been uncovered by the wind and then washed off by the rain. If they had proceeded as planned, many American lives would have been lost. As it was, they simply drove around them and let the demolition teams destroy them. Yes, it was a DIVINE WIND!

When George Washington was asked if he thought God was on his side, he replied: "It is not that God should be on our side, but that we be on
His."

Enjoy
Hog
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
george washington was cool.
the current w has it backwards.
Spiny Norman Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 09-04-2002
Posts: 899
I think the reason those godless liberal reporters didn't show the story was because........

IT NEVER HAPPENED!

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/sandstorm.htm
RDC Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 01-21-2000
Posts: 5,874
Ture or not Rick never misses an opportunity to get a litte Bush bashing in.

The best president we've had in at least two administrations and he is still not happy.

If you think you could do a better job, then you should run for office.
rastusmcnair Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 03-01-2003
Posts: 1,845


***** RICKAMAVEN FOR PRESIDENT!! *************
rayder1 Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 06-02-2002
Posts: 2,226
Only those that were there know for sure. Remember the "embedded" reporters were placed with hand picked units, as to not give a real chance to expose a true front line operation. I can see where that could happen since shifting sand and rain can reveal shallow mines. Whether it did or not will only be known by those that were there.

I wasn't there, nor were the authors of the web site refuting the claim.
usahog Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 12-06-1999
Posts: 22,691
ya'll need a real sorce... want some adress's Spiney???

wanna talk to some real marines? I got em!!!!!

1st MEF, 15th Mec...

thing is they were there and they tell it like it happened!!!!!

LMK

Laterzzzz
Hog

BTW Snopes Sucks when it comes to Bios Opinnions!!!

Robby Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 10-30-2002
Posts: 5,067
I kinda thought that was going to happen. Spiny? What say you? Do you believe Snopes over Hog's eye wittness?
Spiny Norman Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 09-04-2002
Posts: 899
I would be happy to hear from some of those Marines. Particularly Maj. Michael Halt who appears to be the originator of the story.


Any credible evidence to refute the snopes version I will put up here and forward onto them. By the way, When do your friends say this occured? 1991 or 2003? I was able to find the following which lends credence to something like this happening during the first gulf war, but the story looks to have been manipulated since then.

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/sandstorm.htm
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