***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.

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[sissyjane]

Check in and let us know you're okay. Saying a prayer for you.

[retrokitten]

Major Garrett now reporting from Pentagon that the reason it took so long to take out Iraqi TV was that it was surrounded and protected by civilians........

Weren't there reports earlier that a day care center was in there?

[Dog]

Lost what vehicles??

[prairiebreeze]

If she's in texas where I saw the funnel cloud footage, the crazy thing is that there aren't many basements in homes there. Don't know why. Bentonite in soil maybe?? still...

Prairie

[aBootes]

500 enemy troops is not a massive engagement. That is just two companies

Beware of raw numbers.

Another way to look at it, if in fact these are not militia, is that two or three battalions are now at less than 60% strength -- no longer very effective in other words. It's a good day's work.

[Tree of Liberty]

There are still Western journalists in Baghdad who have their own uplinks to their respective networks. The Iraqis probably told them, who in turn told their bosses back here.

[Amelia]

Thanks so much! :)

[r9etb]

tornado coming...gotta go

Prayers for your safety.

[AppyPappy]

Yup Then add in the shock factor to the other troops. I don't know how they can count them which leaves me suspicious.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Doesn't say, Dog. Banner says simply "US lost some vehicles." Stay tuned.

[Dog]

US military at CENTCOM is comfirming Iraqi troops firing on civilians in Basra..

Guess the BBC is wrong ....

[Otta B Sleepin]

tornado coming...gotta go

Praying for your safety, SG!

[Pro-Bush]

I just heard a thump and a single gunshot on MSNBC cam. (how come the lights are on in Bagdad?)

[Otta B Sleepin]

Weren't there reports earlier that a day care center was in there?

Yes.

[CasearianDaoist]

I assume that they wiped it out...no mention of prisoners

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"US has lost some vehicles."

[nwpatriot]

Iraqi TV gone bye-bye? Good.
Our forces engaged with soon-to-be-deceased Iraqis in Karbala? Good.

I just cleaned my house, and I have a cold. I'm headed to the doc in an hour or so.

[prairiebreeze]

thump and a single gunshot

That sounds backward. A gunshot then the thump sounds better. ;^D Prairie

[Amelia]

Funnel clouds were all around Ft. Stewart the first day of the war....

[riri]

Was anyone else relieved on Monday morning when their husband's went to work? I really, all kidding aside, think I have some kind of unhealthy dependency going on here.