***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!

[glock rocks]

New thread for Day 2

alright then.

[GOPyouth]

There ya go. they just mentioned it.

[blondee123]

What do you think, think Saddam is a goner?? Wouldn't that be soooo cool, it sure would make GW the big hero!! Plus, less casualties on both sides!

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - 3 Brit commando brigade has seized oil equipment in Al Fal peninsula in south of Iraq. prevents release of oil. Now mine sweeping

[Professional]

Worse, I fear we may not want to blow people to smithereens on live TV. That's easy. We bring in Janet Reno. She torches the place and blames it on the Iraqis.

[PRND21]

I heard it, too. Eight British, four American. Heros, all of them.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Several oil well heads are on fire in southern Iraq and Brit troops are moving toward them, according to wire services

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - 7 of 8 air raid warnings in Kuwait were due to actual missile launches. The cause of the 8th warning is still being looked into.

[blondee123]

Sky news reporting marines taking enemy fire right now in the DMZ. Any TV reporting it? Our helicopters firing for about 20 mins now.

[momofsixgirls]

did anyone else see the blurb on fox war alert about brown fox jumping? What was that?

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Abu Dubai TV reporting that U.S. has seized airport in Northern Iraq, near the Turkey border

Nothing mentioned on Fox about a DMZ firefight, yet. Fox is Sky News' sister station (both owned by Rupert Murdoch), just so's you know.

[blondee123]

Not near my TV, going to go check Fox for a few mins.

[smokeyjon]

Yeah, I saw it flash up for like half a second...i think it was like:

The brown fox is jumping
The brown fox is jumping

And it immediately disappeared.

[Professional]

How can there still be Iraqis around the DMZ??! Why aren't dem smsabtches all dead?

[blondee123]

Fox is Sky News' sister station

Thanks, have no TV in computer room, so listening to Sky on computer!

[momofsixgirls]

what do you suppose it was?

[Tree of Liberty]

Didn't see it. Was it something like "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"? That's the type set test phrase for Windows fonts.

[Consort]

The brown fox is jumping

John has a long mustache.

[smokeyjon]

Hold on...(puts on tinfoil helmet)

It could (and probably was) just a type test, like Tree said. Might be placeholder text, something like that. I seriously doubt it actually meant anything...unless it was alerting the vast right-wing conspiracy about something...