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Confronting Iraq:
Crossing the Border
With Peter Baker in Kuwait
Washington Post Foreign Correspondent
Friday, March 21, 2003; Noon ET
"OneMarDiv at LD," an officer told the Marines at Camp Commando command center. Translated from warfare jargon that meant the 1st Marine Division had entered Iraq over the Line of Departure. "Into the northern country," the officer said.
The first day of the ground war had begun Thursday for Marine commanders when an Iraqi cruise missile exploded in a fireball just outside the camp. The Iraqis were beginning to blow up their own oil wells and by evening the Marines abruptly launched an invasion not due for another four hours.
Peter Baker, Washington Post foreign correspondent, was online direct from Camp Commando in Kuwait, Friday, March 21 at Noon ET, to discuss military maneuvers and the challenges of an invasion force.
A transcript follows.
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