***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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[Fledermaus]

And talk about idiots. Who gave the command to drive tank columns south of BAG and out of Bassra? Talk about fish in a barrel.

[chnsmok]

I meant flying in to the airport in the North.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Well, I just checked at snopes.com, debunker of all urban legends, and it the status of this one is TRUE

Sears is one of many companies who go above and beyond what is required by law for their reservists. Snopes has a list of all the companies on their website. Go to www.snopes.com, and search on Sears

They get my vote (and shopping dollars)!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Watching the NCAA tournament, CBS had a "War Headlines" where they showed video of the paratrooper jump last night. After seeing the D-Day jumps portrayed in Band of Brothers, I can't imagine how scary that must be. God bless them for serving our country.

[Dog]

Flying what in???

[Fledermaus]

Ah...that's good news!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Saw a report from one of the carriers saying that the coalition planes were "dropping bombs as fast as we can load them."

[Consort]

Can someone summerize the list of succesful Iraqi air force manuvers of the day?

Iraqi Air Force roundel and fin flash. No Iraqi planes lost today. Maybe no planes left to lose.

[chnsmok]

Saw that. Then cam went a little staticy.

[Miss Marple]

UPS has also done this. The president of their company was on and he said they could possibly lose 4000 employees if all were called up. He said their jobs would be held open for them anad they would not hire extras, but rather go with overtime, etc. I was very impressed. (This was on Neil Cavuto's show yesterday, I believe.)

[Dawgmeister]

CNN cam just has lots of big trucks. Hope they
are moving everything to a bunker nearby so we
can watch it go boom!

[Jackie-O]

Hello all! Finally able to get back. Us freepers at work got spanked a little at the staff meeting," computer is for work related use only." So had to lay off today.
Need to catch up. Don't know if this was mentioned yet-
Al Jazeera website hacked, homepage is an American Flag waving with a caption..God Bless America

[chnsmok]

She (lady reporter ) said some kind of plane starting with a C. Lot of help I am. Sorry. I was just passing by the channel and they were talking about the paratroopers. I couldn't believe she was talking about regular flights.

[GOPyouth]

Hey folks. I had to leave earlier around 12:45 pacific time right after a ton of bombs had gone off. Also, Shep said Campaign Carl was gonna have some info on Hussein. Can somebody fill me in on what he said?

[Carolina]

Here's the link to Negroponte walking out: U.S. ambassador walks out of U.N. debate over Iraq

[Howlin]

Regarding the paratroopers from yesterday, what does "ten on a stick" mean?

[BreitbartSentMe]

Here's a link of those companies that really do support our reservists. We need to let them know we support them also!
http://www.coldfury.com/HF/index.html#anchor

[WI Conservative 4 Bush]

3000!!

Ooops, premature numeration. Sorry.

[Dog]

Was it either of these three C-5......C-17...C-130???

[spodefly]

Beat ya to it ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/876834/posts?page=2698#2698