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***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 3-LIVE THREAD***
FreeRepublic - Day 2 ^ | 212 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate/null and void

Posted on 03/21/2003 9:19:52 PM PST by null and void

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, thank you!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ccrm; day3; iraq; iraqifreedom; live; war
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To: Tree of Liberty
Some of this fire are the bullets and shells going off in the tank burning. But, the reporter did say there was possible gunfire going off around the corner.
681 posted on 03/22/2003 1:26:20 AM PST by GOPyouth
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To: Aaron0617
That's not the 3rd Cav, it's the 3rd Infantry Division.

Sorry, CNN has the 3rd Cav. FOX has the 3rd ID.

Its the 3rd Cav that spotted the Iraq tanks and were waiting for artillery.

682 posted on 03/22/2003 1:27:05 AM PST by Aaron0617
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To: GOPyouth
The sounds were to sharp and high-pitched to be tank shells.
683 posted on 03/22/2003 1:28:05 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty
Can you fill me in on what tow vehicles are? He said they were called in for some heavier fire, but I'm not sure exactly which vehicles these are.
684 posted on 03/22/2003 1:29:19 AM PST by GOPyouth
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To: Aaron0617
Another tank about to be demolished - CNN
685 posted on 03/22/2003 1:29:22 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: GOPyouth
You mean TOW missiles?
686 posted on 03/22/2003 1:30:53 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty
Boom! heh heh.. That may be what he was referring to. I'm having a hard time hearing this guy.
687 posted on 03/22/2003 1:31:49 AM PST by GOPyouth
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To: GOPyouth
That tank blowed up real good. heh heh :)
688 posted on 03/22/2003 1:32:08 AM PST by GOPyouth
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To: GOPyouth
APC and tank blowed up real good - CNN

Secondaries now. Concern over more possible RPG's from village.

689 posted on 03/22/2003 1:32:24 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: GOPyouth
Geez, this CNN idiot is going backwards so they can shoot video out the wind-shield
690 posted on 03/22/2003 1:33:45 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: GOPyouth
British armor relieving U.S. demo team
691 posted on 03/22/2003 1:38:29 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: GOPyouth
CNN - Cobra helicopters take out enemy in front of 3rd Cav. British challengers move in to provide cover
692 posted on 03/22/2003 1:49:58 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty; All
Good Morning y´all!

I just woke up and heard of 6 dead British soldiers and one Amercian killed by a Sea King accident. Concerning news - what´s wrong with their helis?

Reports say that the allied forces are ca. 120 miles away from Baghdad, Basra still isn´t under allied control.

Turkey´s behaviour is also not acceptable, we have to wait how they will engage in that war - if more passive or active.

So, how many brave soldiers died up to now?
14 British forces
7 American soldiers ?
So 21 total, 2 of them in combat. It´s a tragedy, 19 souls lost by accidents.
693 posted on 03/22/2003 1:55:23 AM PST by Michael81Dus (Even the dumb will see soon that the war was the right decision.)
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To: All
Morning folks, 6 hours till nightfall begins in Iraq. Anyone besides me believe we are gonna see another shock & awe light show today?
694 posted on 03/22/2003 2:01:23 AM PST by RepublicanArmy (God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
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To: Anomaly in Illinois
Good Morning, fell asleep....

thanks for the new thread...

FTR there is no assassination...this was during a declared action

For it to be assassination, both country's would NOT be engaged, If someone was killed silenty in France, that's assassination

Killed publicly in a country that we are in an armede conflict with....not.

period, no natter what some liberal nut case might say

695 posted on 03/22/2003 2:02:11 AM PST by The Wizard (Demonrats are enemies of America)
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To: Michael81Dus
I think it's just the odds. There's an extraordinary numbers of operations occurring now, so eventually there's just going to be an accident. It's probably just dumb bad luck that the Brits have taken most of the losses so far.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised that there haven't been more allied casualties. Keep in mind that the U.S. had 141 KIA's in the '91 Gulf war, 121 of which were friendly fire.

696 posted on 03/22/2003 2:03:05 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: RepublicanArmy
Probably. The BUFF's took off from England an hour or two ago.
697 posted on 03/22/2003 2:03:47 AM PST by Tree of Liberty
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To: Tree of Liberty
I´m pretty sure that the number of lost servicemen will increase. I don´t want to predict a number, but the worst battle will be to take Baghdad. We can see that even Basra is well defended - compared with what we expected.
The Iraqi resistance is concentrated to the cities. That´s exactly what we fear!
698 posted on 03/22/2003 2:07:39 AM PST by Michael81Dus (Even the dumb will see soon that the war was the right decision.)
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To: Tree of Liberty
ahh ty
699 posted on 03/22/2003 2:08:44 AM PST by RepublicanArmy (God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
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To: All
Out in the car 20 mins ago, I heard a report from BBC Radio 5 Live (UK station) that the desert rats were about to enter southern Iraq.
700 posted on 03/22/2003 2:10:25 AM PST by colette_g
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