***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 6 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | 25 March 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

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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[Wphile]

Seems to be a lot of armchair quarterbacking on the tube these days and from former military men. It's pretty disgusting to see them all dissing Franks and Rumsfeld. Hope it isn't getting back to the troops. Talk about a morale downer.

[SoldiersGirl]

1st CAV aviation has been over there for awhile already. The rest of 1st CAV came down on orders like um..maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago.

[MP5SD]

That would be thermal imagery

[paul544]

errrr their=there

[Mo1]

Here ya go

[Diddle E. Squat]

What's the story with Fox's analyst Macinnis? He's about the most negative analyst I've seen on any of the networks. Is he legit, or way off?

[blondee123]

PING

[texxie]

lol ok must be something interesting there:)

I'll be gone for a bit now to go look

[paul544]

All these people are so friggin smart. The same bunch of panzies were forced to eat their crap when Enduring Freedom started to pay big dividends. Same crap, different war.

[SoldiersGirl]

I understand that if we fought dirty like Iraq is, then that takes away our moral high ground for being there. We aren't like SH, we are good guys. period. It would be nice though to just put the rules of engagement aside for oh..say...7 minutes.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Reuters dispatch from Nasiriah states Marines running convoy through city, came under fire, Marines responded with artillery and cobra 'copters. Reporter on the scene says it's to noisey to talk.

[Doomonyou]

That would be thermal imagery

What's the difference? (seriously)

[Tree of Liberty]

When he uses CW, the RoE are supposed to change significantly *if* we apply longstanding policy.

[Tree of Liberty]

I'm curious too. Thought they were synonymous.

[texxie]

hmmm.... I've never heard how many there may be but when I hear the ground is shaking in baghdad I think of a MOAB nothing else would do that