***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.

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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...

[Starrgaizr]

Who are we going to nuke? The civilians we are dying to protect?

[merrin]

"While the U.S. federal government has never executed someone convicted of treason, the U.S. has tried about 30 treason cases in the nation's history."

--http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020111.html

[Jackie-O]

I've been flipping between the three, and whoever is doing the best job of keeping up with us here is who I stay tuned to. Sometimes I get news here before I see it on cable!

[commish]

personally I'm stillhoding out for "Shot while trying to escape"

Did you see this clowns "Mama" -- claiming that her son was afraid "They would arrest him because he was a Muslim before he even left the states" -- seems to tell me that he was already planting the seed that "something might happen".

[knak]

anyone how far out of baghdad the "red line" is?

[AppyPappy]

We'll nuke the RG

[spectr17]

I like how Sodomy praised the 51st division. They were the first to drop their rifles and take a pass to sit this one out.

[Starrgaizr]

yeah, well, the other possibility is that they flood baghdad with nerve gas and massacre 100,000 or so civilians in an attempt to get the world to turn more harshly against US

[merrin]

"Another famous treason trial was that of abolitionist John Brown. In 1859, he led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He intended to raise an army and end slavery in the American South by force. Despite his noble goal, Brown's methods resulted in several deaths. As a result, he was found guilty of murder, treason, and of inciting slave insurrection and was hanged. However, he was convicted by the state of Virginia, not the federal government."

--Same source

[justshe]

Ok...I am not overly susceptible to schmaltz. But Lester Holt just replayed the phone call that Peter Arnodt (sp) arranged for the soldier, deep in Iraq, and his wife. Lester had HER on the phone....and that was the first time she had seen the tape of her husband calling her from Iraq...just days after their first child, a daughter was born.

Wow.....my heart strings got tugged in a major way. She was crying...seeing her husband on the tape from Iraq of HIM talking to her.

[Miss Marple]

That is an excellent link! I bookmarked it and will get a lot of use from it! Thanks!

[Starrgaizr]

Yeah, I guess. A cute, little nuke!

[DollyCali]

44040.. that was my guess.. mine is 44067

[pitinkie]

Works for me!

[POGIFFMOO]

Isn't quagmire a French word? Shouldn't we expunge (is that french too?) French words from our vocabulary in the interest of National Security, or at least during Red Alerts?

[Starrgaizr]

What LBJ said, rather have them inside the tent p***ing out than outside p***ing in? Don't do it into the wind!

[muslims=borg]

Just heard on Fox the Apache was destroyed by US jets....

[Sparky760]

Before we were trying to find someone who has been executed for treason. The best someone was able to do were some people in the 1700s.

In 1947, Hans Max Haupt was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison for aiding his son who was a spy for Germany during World War II. The son, Herbert Hans Haupt, was tried, convicted, and executed by a military tribunal.....found this on Yahoo site

[commish]

If they use Chem, a battlefield nuke might be considered -- but I don;t think we would ever do it to be honest.

Now 5 or 10 MOABS .. thats possible.