***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 4 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 23 Mar 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

CNN reporter.... Iraqi's dressed as civilians and walking by the Americans under white flags have combat observers enbedded with the civilians and are calling in artillery on our forces as they walk by..

Dumb question, how would CNN know this?

[mewzilla]

MSNBC is reporting that around ten soldiers in Nasiriyah have been taken prisoner. I guess some who were caught in the RPG attack.

[The Wizard]

Tina gets coffee cakes

[thedugal]

please refer to posts 1-2137 :)

[cajungirl]

I am going without sleep in honor of the non sleeping troops. Plus posting, watching the war, envying belly girl, and eating in bed.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

FN: from Qatar, CC: "British spokesman says that the pocket of resistance they are encountering was suspected." "Large contingent of Iraqi troops north of Basrah are preparing to surrender."

[Dog]

He was on the scene .......embedded with the forward forces....saw it happen.

[over3Owithabrain]

Can anyone tell me why only 4 days into this war we are engaging our ground troops in heavy fighting? What happened to overwhelming force by air taking out most of the problems, then the troops cleaning up?

[oceanperch]

We had a little fake out via Iraqi news they had soldiers playing it up to camaras shooting at something/nothing at the Tigres banks and then acting like they were smoking someone out of the reeds damn near lit there own civilians on fire. Allot of arm waving like they got something and then it all fizzled have not heard boo since about 5a.m. Left Coast time.

[thedugal]

call to prayers in Baghdad. anyone know if its early? heard the Iraqis are trying to time call to prayers with bombing raids to get some PR with Muslims.

[null and void]

The Sky News fellow is either being a shmuck because he wants to keep his status there in Iraq, or he is under duress. He does sound increasingly more shrill, but I can't figure out exactly why.

Fear Terror will do that...

[mewzilla]

MSNBC has taken down the news alert about soldiers in Nasiriyah being captured. Hope it's because the net screwed up.

[prairiebreeze]

Trying to minimize civilian casualties?

Prairie

[muslims=borg]

Nice for you !!!! Wow interviewing 3rd ID...said they (republican guards) were coming at them like ants out of an anthill then they'd kill em and more would come.

[prairiebreeze]

Morning all. So the soldiers got lost and inadvertently captured, not during actual combat? Is this report correct, I hadn't heard that yet.

Prairie

[ican'tbelieveit]

The Sky News fellow is either being a shmuck because he wants to keep his status there in Iraq, or he is under duress. He does sound increasingly more shrill, but I can't figure out exactly why.

Fear Terror will do that...

On Fox this morning, the guy they were interviewing had to tow the Iraq line in his reporting of these supposed downed pilots in the river. Fox person asked him if he could answer questions, and he would reply if he couldn't answer it and answered that he had a minder with him always.

[Green]

Not all news stations are reporting this. Only a few so not too sure if this is accurate or not yet.

[Michael81Dus]

I´m not living in LaLa Land, I live in Deutschland!
And I get more and more the impression that your words "We'll do our damndest not to harm civilians" is the same like my sentence "the US can reach their aims without harming the Iraqi people".

The US will not break the convention of Geneve in case the Iraqis torture American POW´s. I´m pretty sure that the US Armend Forces will take revenge, but they´re going to punish the leadership.

[The Wizard]

They killed the POW's

[thedugal]

because we are not trying to destroy Iraq. the mission is to topple the Baathist regime. We could carpet bomb Baghdad. we could slaughter the whole lot of them. That is not the mission. I personally think we are doing the right thing. It will take a bit longer, there will be casualties, but the ends justify the means. Kim Jong Il is watching... and so are billions of potential enemies. Best we keep them at worst neutral at best future allies.