***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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Special thanks to null and void for keeping these running over the weekend and Monday, to all of you for keeping these threads alive, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course, Belly Girl...

[Grenada]

I watch it every weekend and it is excellent. I love the way they dissect how the news is being covered.

The only problem I have is with the guy from FAIR. The best example I can think of is when they were discussing how the media handled the smoking debate. The FAIR guy said, "There is no debate. There is ONE side only; smoking is horrible, it kills you, and it kills the people around you PERIOD.

That is a liberal for you...my way or no way. What I think is the way it is. No room for debate.

It reminds me of Goldberg's book. I am not biased, I am reasonable, everyone feels this way, it is the sane position. They are just so sure of their rightness.

[commish]

YO DUDE CLEANING THE ROOF .. WIPE THE LENS OFF!!!!

[spectr17]

I thought the lens got sand-blasted today. It should be in pretty good shape. Ugh! I just saw it. It really did get sand blasted!

Reminds me of buddy's glasses afer last bender at Colorado River

[Chemist_Geek]

"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teaching of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing." Gen. George S. Patton

I wonder what it was General Patton meant about the Arab women. Lord knows that proper treatment of women is necessary for civilized society, and it seems to me that the Arab societies are rather like they are run by preadolescent boys.

As far as the "teaching of Mohammed" bit goes, I can take it or leave it. The Muslims I knew in undergraduate and graduate school were pleasant enough folk. There are Christians who are equally as nuts - look at Northern Ireland, for example. The "clash of civilizations" and "Novus Crusade" stuff one reads on FR is garbage, merely looking for trouble and stirring the pot.

[null and void]

Good Morning nully, have you posted the new thread? If not I shall do so . . .

Please do!

[Dolphy]

I heard that, I hope they got the civilians out of the way.

[LikeLight]

Guys on the Bag-Cam are smoking . . . you can see the little puffs whaft by . . . now there's a guy sweeping . . . talk about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic!

[texxie]

hey Carney what's goin on tonight?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Do you see that hatred, or "superiority" in their eyes?

[AlextheWise1]

Bet they took out the tv station because they knew it would broadcast images of of the reported Iraqis in US uniforms killing those who surrender

[null and void]

have the screamer stand by...

[merrin]

Fox News: A second soldier has died from the Kuwait fragging attack.

[AFPhys]

I have said to many around the lab here, "How many planners do you think the President has working on this?" Who are you, and who am I, to think we have much brain power. And those guys don't make pizza for a living, either... they have TONS of information, computer simulations power, intel, etc. etc, that we have only an inkling of. Silly peaceniks and monday morning quarterbacks...

This has been brilliant, and I am really hoping to see the history of this campaign. It has truly been geared toward Baghdad, methinks. (with a bit of Tikrit, which we have heard NOTHING of... hmmm???) I really think this Iraq War (War on Saddam, Attack on the Quack in Iraq) is an even more historic battle operation than the Gulf War, from the straw's eye views I've gleaned thus far.

Thanks for your recognition of my post 4918. BTW, I don't think the military officers are that disturbed by the press questions. I suspect it even excites them that the press was unable to fathom the true battle plan.

[Cate]

Lets combine both of our systems and we will be set. When I buy the new satellite stuff, I am getting one of those fancy types that allows you to watch different channels in two rooms of your house. who'd thunk it? Of course, like all the appliance purchases I make, part of the sale is getting it into the house, set up, old ones removed before my husband gets home from work. I actually had a dishwasher in the house for 3 days before he noticed we had a new one. Its my little 'love' game I like to play with him.

[Mo1]

Sheete .. another army guy from the 101st died from that grenade attack in the tent on Sunday

[SoldiersGirl]

"The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese." -- Charles A.J.M de Gaulle, Speech, 1951

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." -- General George Patton

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis - an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
D. W. Brogan

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

[Mo1]

OK

[texxie]

hey soldiers girl how ya doin tonight?