George W Bush to address the Nation at 9pm EST, 6pm PST

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[PhiKapMom]

Pins n' needles...no news, a dead space in the air, no reports...somethin's on the move.

I agree with you 100%! It is obvious that most of these reports are canned to give no information! This is the least amount of news in the last four hours I have seen in a long time! I detest waiting! Impatient describes me right now too!

[Howlin]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but today IS the 19th, isn't it?

[justshe]

AMEN!!!!!

[afraid]

think this is going down tonight?

[Howlin]

I have no idea, but nobody's going to know until it starts -- and Bush sure as hell isn't going to announce he's going to speak to the nation.

[HapaxLegamenon]

Drudge has now pulled the siren and "Times UP Saddam. According to this thread he also pulled his annoucement of a 9:00 speech. Whats up?

[Trust but Verify]

HEHEHE!!! I am prepared to get very little sleep! My car has a full tank of gas and a lot of snacks in the house! Most importantly, I have two 24-pack of Coke cans ready!

Ready for what? Maybe it's just me, but this isn't the start of the Super Bowl. While we're all very interested in this story, I can't see any point in acting gleeful about it.

[COBOL2Java]

It will be 5:00am Baghdad time.

[cmsgop]

Amelia,Listen, FR is not the only News Outlet in the World.

HLL was not disclosing ,Troop Movements,B-52' taking off,Just a possible Oval Office Speech, Thats It! Whats the BIG DEAL?

[PhiKapMom]

All I know is that they told the USS Truman to sleep during the day and the USS Roosevelt to sleep at night so they can go 24/7. Would expect the rest of the carriers are doing the same!

Not even sure if they will go in at night! Actually all I know is that President Bush signed off on the message to Congress that we are going into Iraq and the War Plans for General Franks -- We are now on Franks schedule!

[Cate]

Oh no, Kristy Lane is advertising on FOX tonight. aaaaaaaaagggghhh.. Ok, I surrender.

[xp38]

Not that we care but the French and the EU insist that Champagne only comes from the district of the same name. All other Champagne like drinks should be called sparkling wine. As for me I have a nice sweet sherry from one of the coalition of the willing ...The Spanish district of Jerez.

[BulletBobCo]

Sunrise in Iraq is in 2 hours.

[Tuxedo]

How long does it take a Tomahawk to go from the Gulf to Baghdad?

[deport]

how could the President attack a nation waving the white flag?

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Why would he want to if the troops can move in an occupy it and the disposed ruler is gone... The object is have a regime change, isn't it?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Oh, come on - hang here with us. Hearing people tell the POTUS what to do, when to do it, and exactly how it should be done never really gets old, does it? LOL : )

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The theatre command authority will allow only plain vanilla or canned reports until the national command authority makes its announcement. That's why you see dead space for a period (however long) until the President speaks. I love the Baghdad-cams! And if the attacks start on the perimeter???

[Krodg]

It was questioned if HLL had heard it right on Fox since she seemed to be the only one with the info. I was just telling you that other message boards have posted the same thing using a Fox crawl as the first source.

[TLBSHOW]

siren is still up..........

[bigaln2]

Yes, today is the 19th, however, this is the timestamp on the story:

Tuesday, 18 March , 2003 08:04:08

I assume it's Sydney time, which would make it Monday afternoon at about 16:04:08 EST.

Right now, it's 12:30 Thursday, Sydney Time.

(Also, the transcript mentions the early number of 72 hours, which we know now was revised to 48 hours)