***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.

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[commish]

WOW -- A van just stopped at the Intersection!!! They do stop sometimes... and the Adam-12 car just came by again.

[spectr17]

Jerry Rivers, LIVE!!! from the front lines with the 101st.

Permission to go hurl sir?

[SoldiersGirl]

sounds like a darn good plan to me. I wonder if it's tactically viable.
Give the guys a little rest time too.

[two23]

When does Day 9 Thread start??

[merrin]

From Jed Babbin:

"I have confirmed that the Al-Jazeera tape, all twelve minutes of it, is merely an excerpt of the hour-long version being shown regularly in Egypt and elsewhere. The short version shows the interrogation of some U.S. soldiers and the defamed dead bodies of others. The longer version includes all that, plus the murders and later abuse and mutilation of the bodies. Apparently, the whole thing is out there on the internet. I don't want to watch it tonight. Maybe tomorrow morning, when the mind is fresher, more able to withstand it."

[dogbyte12]

Is the war getting boring, or are people here burning out already? Am I the only one who notices that the amount of posts on this thread is dropping every day as the war goes on?

Maybe we need to drop a MOAB or 2.

[Poser]

Day 9 starts before post 4K. Darn!

[BulletBobCo]

No way we make 4000 tonight.

[null and void]

O'Reilly, you twit ... "decimated" means that only 10 percent of something is destroyed. Learn some freaking history.

When a Roman division was punished by decimation only 10% survived. Enough to spread the word about just how bad an idea it is to break Rome's rules. The survivors were the "lucky" ones who had to beat their comrads to death at the point of a sword.

[SoldiersGirl]

I think I've only seen it before 5k once..and it was pretty close to 5

[spectr17]

4rth armor flight 14 hours?

Still have to get over jet lag. 24 hours?

2 days to check out armor (maintenance) and roll?

I'm not an armor guy, any help here. We called tanks bomb magnets.

[XJarhead]

Is the war getting boring, or are people here burning out already? Am I the only one who notices that the amount of posts on this thread is dropping every day as the war goes on?

It's a reflection of less information coming out of the combat zone as things are reaching a head. Reporters can't talk as much, etc.

[Poser]

I

[Poser]

Must

[Poser]

Have

[Poser]

Post

[Poser]

4,000!

[Fledermaus]

And we've cut down on the meaningless chatter...I think

[condi2008]

you spoke too soon.

[GOPyouth]

That, and some of us are finally getting some much needed sleep. ;)