***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 8 - LIVE THREAD***

Various | 3/27/2003 | Me

[Centurion2000]

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:

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...

[ninenot]

Out-Frickin-Standing analysis.

My only quarrel with you is that I might send either the 4thID, or the Big Red One, in from the NORTH. Put the 2nd in the South as a relief to the 3rd, et. al.

[Timesink]

On a recent guest spot on OPRAH, Rock cautiously offered: "Ah, the war, ah, well, maybe if we Americans really knew what a war meant, ah, then maybe we wouldn't be so eager in waging or supporting it."

Spoken like someone that was three time zones away from Lower Manhattan on 9/11.

[hawkaw]

The sirens are a little late seeing I heard about 10 explaosions about 30 minutes ago.

hawk

[DollyCali]

1511

Thank you

This has been around the email circuit awhile ; is much longer & the ending one I love is:

And it is the soldier that still proudly bears a flag on his casket


some of you are info genius without compare.. sure you will have it all on this post within 2 minute

[TomGuy]

Holy Mackerel!!! PING for a great poetical tribute to our fighting men. Please get this cross posted, and reposted to this thread several times during the day. Everyone deserves to see this one.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/876834/posts?page=1393#1393

Soldiers is another one.

[Mr. Mulliner]

At first I was irritated at this massive text dumped on my computer screen, but I started reading it and got a great laugh. Thanks!

[Nam Vet]

If you mated a bulldog and a shitsu, would it be called a bullshit?

Nam Vet

[Peach]

Most excellent! I'll never forget being at a UCONN Huskies basketball game and not one stopped talking or moving around for the National Anthem. Then we moved south and it was a completely different story; we're grateful to be here.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Perhaps we can get you set up with your own blog during half-time of the war.

[Mr. Mulliner]

LOL!

[Quilla]

A tad belated, but welcome to Free Republic. BTW, my parents four daughters were all born on Air Force bases - two in the states and two overseas.

[Peach]

Hope no one minds a humor break.

Only if it's posted 200 times on one thread!

[AFPhys]

many of the retired brass are of the overwhelming force school of the past and Rummy and Franks are applying the "adequate" force plan.

Dead on right. There is recent military theory which has not been tested on the battlefield which is being used in this war, and the old timers are out of the loop. They are not used to our having such instant communications and are stuck with the fears of the past. Franks et al have tested this out in war gaming on the test battlefields with these very troops over the past decade, have looked at the results, and are applying what they have learned.

There is a certain risk of different problems arising, but, say - war is risky no matter what you do. The question is how to get it done the best way given what you know and even to dynamically change your tactics depending on the results.

As far as new call ups... why take someone away from their families (and incur the expense to them, their family, their business, the country) if you are just going to have them sit around in a waiting area. That's the old time way to do business... now all successful business tries to get inventory on hand when they need it, and insofar as practical, not before. This is the same concept.

[Carolina]

Saddam's doubles. Can you imagine being one of those poor bastards...

I wonder if there are any plastic surgeons left in Baghdad.

[ninenot]

Well, SnA failed, because the Iraqi people weren´t impressed that way we all wished they would be.

Aach, mein kleinen

Neither YOU nor I have any idea whatsoever what the Iraqi citizens think of S&A. It's bad for your health to admit that Saddam may be wrong.

It's also bad for the health of your women and children to admit Saddam may be wrong.

So which Iraqi citizen in his RIGHT MIND will tell US press that he/she is scared s***less???

[retrokitten]

Only if it's posted 200 times on one thread!

Oh no! I'm sorry! I didn't know it was already posted. Sorry.

[Timesink]

It is the soldier not the campus organizer who has given us freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier not the poet who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier who serves under the flag who defends the protestors right to burn the flag.

Isin't it time now to demonstrate that we to support our troops. For if not for the brave there would be no land of the free.

Beautiful.

[retrokitten]

This is pretty interesting. It's a link to the text of the messages that the US is running on Iraq radio.

[AFPhys]

As soon as Iraqis realize that Saddam is gone (or a drooling vegetable), the people will turn on the remaining regime elements like a hoard of locusts on a ripe crop.

I wish I were so confident. The Saadumb henchmen have been pretty astute learners of his brutal techniques, and it may take some time to root a lot of them out before the Iraqis have the confidence in us to fight against them.

[Peach]

No, no retrokitten. It hasn't been posted before and I enjoyed I IMMENSELY. I was jokingly trying to refer to the same old lame jokes that get brought out 20 times in 15 minutes at various times throughout the day.

New jokes and material always welcome!