***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 5 - 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.

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.

Please have mercy on us dial up limited FReepers! Limit the big graphics, post links instead. A breif description of what the graphic is would help:

To all who helped this get started, thank you!

Special thanks to An.American.Expatriate for staring the daily threads, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course, Belly Girl...

[steveegg]

'Tis about the only kind of war they can fight effectively (<expletive deleted> you CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC/Sky/BBC, for helping them).

Thanks for pointing out the Ralph Peters article.

[Straight Vermonter]

I hadn't seen this on this thread yet.

In northern Iraq, scores of American military personnel landed in Kurdish territory, as the move to open a northern front gathered strength.

The BBC reported fighting between Kurdish troops, with American support, and the Iraqi army in northern Iraq just south of the city of Irbil, about 300 km from Baghdad.

[steveegg]

Well, since Turkey ain't helping, hello, Kurdistan.

[Dog]

Here you go..Streaming Video and Audio Links...

[Carolina]

V

Thanks for clarifying what Saranwrap and Bolshiwoodites were flashing last night. Victory!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good morning, all! We owe the Morrocans and the UK Sun our thanks, today. (^:

Awestruck (Comprehensive Details on "Decapitation Attack")

Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate land mines

Andrew Sullivan, excellent. Why we're right, of course.

The UK Sun attacks a French Ship - w/ chicken feathers, good show!

E-mail Michael Moore

[prairiebreeze]

Good morning Carolina and All. Nope, says server busy at SkyNews. I haven't been able to get on it for a long time.

Trying to catch up with the thread. Have I missed anything major overnight or yet this morning?

Prairie

[Irishguy]

well i hope you are right but lets look at it this way.

if it takes another month and it means we spare our troops then i say to Gen Franks -- take as long as you want. Lets not get all touchy about downed choppers and POW's. Can you imagine looking after those guys. YOU know in a few weeks you are going to have a very very pissed of marines division just looking for YOU!

The war is on track, we aint seeing nothing. Iremember GW1 and at the beginning the same crap was put up by the media over the pilots. What we need to keep thinking is about the things you aint hearing about....for instance Anyone see any Iraqi dead? gee, maybe we aint killed any yet (NOT), or perhaps we are playing a much better long term game then the short termism of the Iraqis...

[Carolina]

BeebDweeb pounding on the guerilla tactics talking point of the day. Embedded Beeber saying that Iraqis engaged in tactics in violation of conventional warfare.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I just read your post. The BBC gave Iraqi torturers personal info on POWs...I'm speechless.

E-mail BBC/FONT>

[prairiebreeze]

I heard about the troop landings yesterday although TV commentator was saying they were around Kirkuk--I think he was wrong on that.

Arbil looks to be just north of Kirkuk.

Prairie

[The Wizard]

Rick Leventhal: '..........this is the end of a convoy and I can't tell you where their going, But they ain't going back to Kuwait"

[vooch]

OOB info is available at globalsecurity.org

[The Wizard]

the Yanks have boots on the ground in the North

[Quilla]

Good morning. Catching up on this thread is almost an impossibility if sleep is an option, so I hope I'm not being redundant. Just heard on the way into the office that a Jerusalem Post writer claims the chemical weapons facility is just that and evidence exists of recent use.

[Catspaw]

Channel surfing yesterday morning, I ran across Abrems (?) [ABC ?] interviewing a terrorist expert. The expert said Saddam has hired PR firms to advise him in making him look good to the world. Abrems laughed it off, but propaganda is an essential part of war--on both sides.

I saw the interview. Dan Abrams was interviewing Whalid Fares, who IS an expert on the Middle East. Abrams seemed more than skeptical that Saddam would use French PR fims to advise him about whether he should use bio/chem weapons.

It's too bad that it didn't dawn on Abrams that he's a little punk talking head and Fares is the expert.

[TLBSHOW]

No one ever said (certain) freepers have any manners.

[InShanghai]

I heard the same. They mentioned two areas of fighting, and specifically the Al-Ansar(?) Jihadists (supposedly linked with Al-Queda).

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

BeebDweeb, lol! Maybe time w/ the troops and FoxNews will wake 'em up.

Thread summary - our Marines had a good night taking out bad guys, an Apache's down still in one piece - pilot's missing?, US troops fortifying the north, Carny hurt himself snorting beer. Did I miss anything?

[prairiebreeze]

Jerusalem Post writer claims the chemical weapons facility is just that and evidence exists of recent use.

Good news if true, but I'd like to see it from another source as J. Post was the one that originally broke the story.

Keeping fingers crossed.

Prairie