***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 2-LIVE THREAD***

21 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

[An.American.Expatriate]

Good Morning.

This is the continuation Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1- LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

To all who helped this get started yesterday, thank you!

[steveegg]

ABC - they haven't destroyed the Information Ministry building (they're still broadcasting through that).

[Mo1]

MSNBC is there also

[Mrs.Liberty]

I am at work and watching on streaming video.

Holy Cow.

God Bless Our Troops.

[P.O.E.]

45 military & HQ targets are on the list for this campaign (according to NBC news)

[section9]

I hope to hell that the Iranians, the Chicoms, and Little Kim the Elevator Shoes Man are watching this crap!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[baseballmom]

I think ABC is talking about the Al Rashid may have been hit. Richard Engle "not trying to cause panic, but he fears for his colleagues. Petaaahhhh says the Cent Command has said repeatedly that Al Rashid was not a safe place to be.

[Cboldt]

Any depots that may have had chem will have been hit with incendiary ordnance. I saw a few that appeared to conatin aluminum/iron/magnesium or other metals (sparkly boomers).

[kcvl]

Saddam's MAIN palace is up in a HUGE FIRE!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

the dowjones is going up

[RummyChick]

i am sure we have terrified them..the reporter on abc sounds like he is going to have to change his underwear

[Dog]

Hell I'm terrified sitting here......imagine being under this and knowing your the target.

[P.O.E.]

You bet - this is on Al Jazeera. Everybody on the planet is watching.

[arasina]

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key (1779 - 1843)

[baseballmom]

OH MY GOD

[prairiebreeze]

YEOWWWWWWWW!! LOOK AT THAT ONE!!

[Dog]

Another Big One....

[Petronski]

Someone on tv, I don't even know which channel I was on as I flipped through, just said this is the BEGINNING of Shock and Awe.

Dear Jesus

[tomkat]

that last one one was HUGH !

[steveegg]

Damn, look at that mushroom cloud.