***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 3-LIVE THREAD***

FreeRepublic - Day 2 ^ | 212 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate/null and void

[colette_g]

Live MOD briefing on BBC News 24 now

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - British news conference from minister of defense on their casualties and update on war progress

[The Wizard]

thank you for the kind words

[The Wizard]

welcome to the real world

[colette_g]

MOD briefing -----"Confirming next of kin of all killed in helicopter collision have been informed, no further info to present at this time. Resolved to remove Iraqi WMD. Rapidly securing Iraqi territory. 5th core have secured 2 bridges. Last night dominated by air campaign over Baghdad. Attacks on regimes ability to communicate and delivery sites. Aiming to inflict damage on regime itself, leaving civilian infastructure intact. All along river bank is closed to ordinary Iraqi's, so concentration of strikes there. Regime will soon be over. Has been necessary to achieve air superiority. Targets include security organisations, command and control structures, military capability, integreated air defence systems, surface to surface missiles. Main headquarters of intelligence service attacked last night by tomahawk missiles. Also other intelligence facilities removed. Main sector air defence bunker successfully attacked, to gain an maintain coalition air superiority."

Please forgive any spelling mistakes in the above, typing f--a--s---t!

[Textide]

Here are some live feeds (from a thread yesterday).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/871636/posts

[Timeout]

Mornin'. I actually got 6 hours sleep.

Sounds like there was heavy action. Basra, I've tried to catch up on that one...3rd cav engaged RG units near or in Basra, stopped progress, right? Is that battle over?

Any other engagements? Are there still reports of other armored units racing toward BAG?

[Michael81Dus]

Apropos real world:
German Foreign Minister "stonethrower" Fischer warned that a series of "disarmament wars" could come. And what would be wrong with that? As long America disarms countries like Iraq, N Korea, I had no problems with that!

[Miss Marple]

I don't think there is anything wrong with the helicopters. Fox News reports it as a mid-air collision.

It's just a shame, but with the amount of operations going on, accidents are going to happen.

I also think we will lose more people before this ends. This is not going to be a cake walk, despite some of the pundits predictions. We will prevail, but there will be a cost, as I am certain the President knows.

[Michael81Dus]

No doubt.
It´s a shame, that´s what I said with "what´s wrong with their helis". Damned! That must not happen! I just imagine I´d knew them ... or their partners and children.

[blondee123]

Sorry, had to go to other room to watch CNN coverage, it sure was something watching that. Makes me wonder if they are encountering attacks in these small towns, how bad Baghdad will be. They really thought all these smaller groups would immediately surrender.

[Mustang]

Good Show! MOD briefing very informative.

btw...your spelling looks good to me. How's the weather in Wales?

Mustang sends. :-))

[Michael81Dus]

Another engagement at the home front:
some media criticize that Ari Fleischer told them, the President wouldn´t watch much TV in these days. They expected the Commander-in-chief to watch their silly speculations all the day. Heck, do these guys want to tell the President how to do his job?

[The Wizard]

thank you for the cam

[Tree of Liberty]

I believe that there is still sporadic fighting going on near Basra, but it's mostly pacified. Don't know if it's Rep. Guard troops, but there have been attacks by soldiers in civilian clothing. The RPG attack occured when other Iraqis were trying to surrender. Don't know if they were perpetrating a ruse, though.

The 3rd Infantry Division is still heading north. Don't know who else is moving in that direction.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - 3 new explosions in and around Baghdad, per Reuters

[The Wizard]

Please...I with you enough with the teen aged bellygirl stuff...people are dying

[Michael81Dus]

Sure we all hoped that the Iraqis would surrender. The media makes one big fault: they think of hopes and speculations as if these were true.

BTW, is the surrender of one Iraqi division confirmed yet?

[blondee123]

Sure we all hoped that the Iraqis would surrender. The media makes one big fault: they think of hopes and speculations as if these were true.

The more casualties, the more the Daschles & the media & the peaceniks will persecute GW, we all know that.

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

.."some media criticize that Ari Fleischer told them, the President wouldn´t watch much TV in these days. They expected the Commander-in-chief to watch their silly speculations all the day. Heck, do these guys want to tell the President how to do his job?

I saw this question at yesterday's Fleischer press conference. Some of the media would like to make GW look disconnected and huddling with his advisors or something like that. If Ari said the President was watching the coverage - they would print he is fixated on the TV coverage.