As seen on CNN.
Here it goes, I guess. Not sure what else to say just yet.
And I’d just gotten out of the habit of curling up into a little ball.
Wish I were home right now. Wish I were with my SO.
This is scary. Not so bad, and necessary, sure, but scary.
Not as scary as it would be for the people actually in the area being attacked.
Yeah, I had it on TNT watching the movie, when the NASCAR race was switched from NBC to TNT so NBC could do the news.
Now I can feel the news addict in me kicking back in.
I had it on CBS briefly-they said something about doing bomb strikes and then food drops. Has anyone else heard this as well?
This is my 100th post.
Let’s roll.
The humanitarian aid drops haven’t started yet but are scheduled to shortly
Bush said in his address that food would be dropped.
According to Al Jezeera TV in Kabul, 1/3 of Kabul is without power. Air strikes have hit an airport, and various anti-aircraft positions.
The targeted areas included the Taliban’s command center, I believe. (I’m watching a simulcast of Al Jezeera TV in Arabic being translated as it’s broadcast.)
Humanitarian aid will begin once the US has determined that the Taliban air defenses are not a threat.
I don’t know how many of you have had the pleasure of hearing bombs like these go off but I will tell you that no one sleeps during a storm of iron bombs.
From a mile away you feel the shockwave.
I hate it for any pilot or soldier that gets caught by the Taliban army.
******* Blair on the tele *********
From Bush’s Speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/bushaddress_100801.htm
“At the same time, the oppressed people of Afghanistan will know the generosity of America and our allies. As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine and supplies to the starving and suffering men and women and children of Afghanistan”
CNN - New round of attacks started…
Al Jezeera showing bin Laden telling Americans they will never feel safe again was a bit chilling.
I haven’t felt safe since the WTC. I wonder how safe ObL feels right this minute…
I didn’t know this was going on until about half an hour ago when I got into the shower and turned on my radio there. Of all the places to hear that sort of news, my favorite is not when I’m naked and wet and alone.
Crap. I knew it was going to happen. But I don’t like it ONE LITTLE BIT.
I suspect that ObL does not have a lot of time left to be making speeches on television.
Just a note on the Al Jezeera footage: it wasn’t live, it was a pretaped “if the US attacks us, this is what we’ll release” type tape. But yeah, pretty bizarre.
Yeah, me too. Until I reminded myself that OBL is not the spokesperson for every Muslim on the face of the earth. He is representative of a relatively small group out of millions who feel otherwise.
The tone I got from his speech (which was obviously recorded sometime before the airstrikes started…it was daylight…and it could have been taped three weeks ago for all we know) was one of professional martyrdom at the hands of every non-muslim on the face of the earth. The good and pure muslims against the infidels and sinners.
The tape looked like it was made during daylight and it’s almost midnight over there. It was interesting to hear the twisted logic driving his ideology.
ABC had their Afghanistan expert on and he commented that the average mujahadeen (there seems to be about six ways to spell that) believes that the Afghan resistance brought down the Soviet Union; i.e., they have no lack of confidence. It certainly won’t be like facing Saddam’s conscripts.
I see daylight on the tape has been addressed.
Don’t forget that Saddam talked mighty big (remember the “mother of all battles”?) just prior to the ground war in the Gulf. Just because they can talk the talk doesn’t mean they can walk the walk.
I can only hope that ObL and the Taleban are crushed like the cockroaches they most certainly are. Here’s also hoping that all of our military return safely from this desperately needed mission. Aerial bombing of Kandahar is exactly what I had prescribed and I see that it is exactly what has happened. I still wish we had lobbed a cruise missile into the meeting of 200-300 of the Taleban mullahs. Afghanistan needs to be rid of these pestilential parasites for once and all.