***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.

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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...

[Dog]

Reporter asking why we don't have the French as allies..

[hawkaw]

The Prez: Ally after Ally after Ally is standing with us. More than the gulf war!

What an answer.

[Timeout]

Tony Blair looks great!

[Air Force Born]

French dont even count the French as Allies

[mhking]

He didn't address that directly

Of course not...'can't tip your hand...but note that he didn't rule them OR the anticipated MOAB out, either...

[Carolinamom]

Reporter needs to read FR. WE know the reasons for French intrasience.

[maica]

I bet Rush plays this Q&A with applause today. Maybe Brit Hume will discuss it tonight. These fools need to be exposed.

Wolff to Gen Brooks: I mean no disrespect by this question...


When anyone starts a question like that , disrespect is exactly what they DO mean.

[prairiebreeze]

Blair acknowlegeing the division in the West. Not trying to minimize it.

Prairie

[ncooper777]

not sure, He didn't take about it much at all. he mentioned
chu-li (hope I got that right, and of course siagon.
Da-nang....sorry can't spell these right. I did hear him say, the was like the movei apocolpse now. told to do a certain "job" and told to be picked up at a certain "time" otherwise the US gov dosen't know him. had over 10,000 huey flight hrs.

I don't know all the extent of it!

[Peach]

It's also being inferred in the media that Rummy and others have said this would be a cakewalk. Didn't happen - no one in this administration has said that.

Does anyone honestly believe in this day of technology and the internet with instant access to every word uttered that if anyone did say the words they are being accused of they wouldn't be quoted?

[mhking]

why we don't have the French as allies..

'Cause they're french. Next question?

[ninenot]

Yeah, the Turkish stuff hurt. OTOH, why can't we still 'shoehorn' a Division into a position north of Baghdad?

[Dog]

Blair hammering the point about the myth of Europe not with us.....some countries in Europe are with us..

[An.American.Expatriate]

A mosquito killed Alexander the Great. The real danger has not passed...

Didn't mean to imply that it had! Intent was to to show that the claims of massive resistance were overblown.

[Michael81Dus]

LOL
Great, I´d like to hear how you´ll pronounce it.

Freude = Froida
schöner = shoinar
Götterfunken = Goittarfuunken
Tochter = To-chtar
aus = eus
Elysium = E-lysi-um

???? ;-))

Ish been eyn Barleenar! = Ich bin ein Berliner.

[Nam Vet]

I think people forget that much of this was exactly the same in 'Nam. Just like the NVA and VC (irregulars.....no uniforms)

Nam Vet

[mtbopfuyn]

Tony - 400,000 Iraqi children died of preventable malnutrition last year.

[Dog]

Blair getting riled up...

[A Citizen Reporter]

Blair is doing a magnificent job with this question about the division in the international community. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!

[Mo1]

TELL'EM IT TONY!!!

He is doing great