***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...

[Jackie-O]

I heard it for the first time the other day, but had already heard it described here. So it didn't have quite the full effect on me that it had on some of you. Still found it too bizzare.

[SaucyCranberry]

Excellent! Thank you for relaying this.

[spectr17]

wonder what happended to the Solid Gold dancers that were breaking a bad shuffle around it on the vid?

[Starrgaizr]

CBS says US troops may be approaching the "red line" right now, that will trigger chem weapons

[SC_Republican]

Downed Apache has been destroyed....good!

[Carolina]

Quagmire...add to that "humanitarian disaster."

[knak]

too cool

[POGIFFMOO]

Been having trouble getting MSNBC video feed. Anyone else?

[DollyCali]

very close to Baghdad........ if you are a genie..

[spectr17]

At the Apache site.

Abtar: Machmood, do you here that?

MAchmood: Hear what you fool, let me dance!!

Abtar: That sound, it ...........

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[muslims=borg]

Hopefully they're fertilizer.

[commish]

My guess would be that the Karbala Gap is the "red Line". Once we break through there it would be straight to Baghdad. That's the main strategic point and also the concentration point of Iraqi defenses.

Just a guees and not an educated one, but that is where I would do it.

[SaucyCranberry]

For anyone else cable/sat-less, the SKYNEWS link in the first few posts on this thread just started working again for me.

[knak]

no, I've got it, but it's awfully windy

[commish]

Not a problem here.

[glock rocks]

i've had it running for a half hour without a hitch.

i have fast link, but i've set the webcam to 56k instead of 100, and it doesn't seem to drop as much over the last few days. (i dunno if it really helps, tho)

[DollyCali]

I don't have cable for computer either.. just 56 modem. Pix are not slow. I have downloaded a program to defrag RAM.. I do that often & it helps. I have 256 RAM - not great but better than my last computer w/56