*** Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 15 - Live Thread ***

Multiple ^ | April 3rd, 2003 | Various

[Air Force Born]

Big flat area, easy to defend, good for bringing in ammo and food, and BIG thumb in the eye of the late Saddam H.'s henchmen.

[Cboldt]

Maybe it's for transporting goods. The river is navigable, yes??

Tunnel "to" a river is strange. Under river, sure. But for transport, may as well use surface. No size limits, cheaper to build, etc.

The waste system angle is a possibility. So is electrical power transmission.

[CasearianDaoist]

Might be a diversion.

[Carolina]

We got a great tour of the power plant, tunel system, backup power generator, etc.

There was a manhole at the basement of the School of Architecture we used as an entry. We spent hours exploring the different buildings after hours using the tunnels.

[wolficatZ]

They had nightvision on, it messes up the frame rate; LEAVE THE CAM ALONE! Now it's zoomed in too much, whoever messed withy the cam a few minutes ago needs to be thrashed like a red-headed stepchild.

[valleygal]

Lived there in '71 for a short period while my dad was doing contract work at Eglin. Lived on Santa Rosa Island off Ft. Walton before it was all developed. An absolutely beautiful place back then. Little houses and tons of white sand.

I've been told I wouldn't recognize it now. All high rises and hotels. :(

[Air Force Born]

Or bait?

[CasearianDaoist]

That's what I meant.

[cajungirl]

"thrashed like a red-headed stepchild",,that is priceless,,where did you get it,,from your granpa??

[Dawgmeister]

A little wind storm might bring it back to normal though.
We still have some beautiful beaches.

[valleygal]

What station are you watching with the webcams?

[Cboldt]

That metal part that covers the top of the wheel (whatever it is called)

Fender, as in Stratocaster.

[AFPhys]

There is no way you can avoid first seizing that airport if you wish to control Baghdad. Check out a map of the city and surrounds, and it will be pretty obvious why.

[JLS]

Certainly all of FL had developed a lot in the last 32 years, but then there is lots of land in FL. Not quite like Western states but lots of land compared to Eastern states.

[retrokitten]

I've got MSNBC going. They've gone back to night vision mode.

[valleygal]

Sorry, not web cams...I meant just cams.

[commish]

My parents used to use a variant of that ... I'm gonna beat you like a redheaded step child.

LOL Ahmed is afraid of falling off the roof .. and I don;t want to know what that zipping sound is on the bagcam .. actually it sounded like duct tape LOL

[Catspaw]

Well -- the point is the very wise often express wisdom in droplets of free text that are very poetic even if not formal poems. Shakespeare, Rumsfeld, MacArthur, Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel ...

You forgot Babelfish translations.

[Carolina]

Have y'all seen this? Lights out in 2 cities?

Lights Go Out in Najaf (coup attempt?)

[commish]

LOL some one on the NTV cam just said "OK I'm getting tired of waiting when is this supposed to start" ROFL