***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 17 - LIVE THREAD***

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In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked their lives to rescue her!

Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo	Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo

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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To all who helped this get started and keep it running, thank you!

Special thanks to An.American.Expatriate for staring the daily threads, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, Ragtime Cowgirl for her Exclusive Live Transcription Service™, and, of course, Belly Girl...

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NWCN, Seattle/Portland (Real - down)
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Sky News (BB - WMV/Copy-Paste)
SNN6 Sarasota, FL (Real)
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMV - Fox Affiliate)

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Bad, bad people. Our guys, I'm sure were hoping to reach that refinery first.

[MeekOneGOP]

Stop it.....I'll have that song in my head now....:-)

Try this one out instead:

ZOT's favorite

[Redcloak]

Strangers in the Night, exchanging Rubbers$...

This one is too tight, I'll need another...

This one is too loose, it'd fit a mooooooose!

[Catspaw]

Reuters breaking: Bomb hits central Baghdad near Palestine Hotel.

They won't believe we're in Baghdad until they take a US mortar round up their collective...butts.

[glock rocks]

FOX reports the bomb hit within 300 feet of the bagcam hotel.

[debg]

#5 explosion 300 yards from hotel where the reporters are staying

hehe

[debg]

300 feet

sorry

[ninenot]

French holdings in te USA include Aqua-Chem, a large manufacturer of salt-to-fresh water purification systems, and a large electrical switchgear manufacturer (I forgot which one--not Allen-Bradley.

German holdings include all the Siemens subsidiaries in heavy electrical goods (gear, transformers, etc.) and LOTS of other manufacturing concerns.

It won't be ALL that easy to keep the Frog and Kraut hands off the money...

[glock rocks]

is the bagcam at the palestine hotel?

[ican'tbelieveit]

It is probably a rental car thats alarm keeps going off. The idiots probably rented it in Jordan and drove it in, hehehe. I can't imagine those white toyotas the thugs drive have car alarms.

[MeekOneGOP]

(Repost of earlier note of mine):

Hey! Did anybody else see the Eleanor Clift and Bill Kristol exchange on FOX News with Neil Cavuto? What an IDIOT she is. Kristol handled her pretty well I thought. She got me stirred up so much I sent Neil Cavuto an e-mail:

Neil:

I can appreciate your desire to present a "Fair and Balanced" view of the news. But Eleanor Clift needs to pull her head out of her 'you-know-what'. She doesn't see the Elite media's intentional misportrayal of the Bush administration by the NY Slimes as being a problem. Well, I agree with Bill Kristol - the American people will see their portrayal for what it is - a biased publication with an anti-Bush agenda. Likewise for the Elite media portrayal as U.S. forces being in a "quagmire" when the reality is we have made AN HISTORIC advance unseen EVER before in modern military history. The New York Times is not the only written publication doing this either. The LA Times has been as bad or WORSE ! (Not only as shown by Bill O'Reilly on FOX, but check out the articles showing the media bias on http://www.FreeRepublic.com).

PLEASE GET ELEANOR CLIFT OFF of your program. Or maybe not. Showing her bias versus Bill Kristol (whom, frankly, I'm not TOO fond of because of his occasional uncalled for jabs at President Bush), might just open some of the LIBERALS and the middle of the road fence-sitters eyes.

Thanks!

[MeekOneGOP]

I had to get that plug of FreeRepublic.com in ! . . .

[Redcloak]

It looks like they're on a low roof in front of the main building. I've got a satelite pic around here somewhere. I'll post it in a few minutes.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

HUH HUH HUH... "Come to Butthead" :-o

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, Unknown. I missed a few posts. The official CENTCOM transcript should be up soon.

My early recap: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/885522/posts?page=2159#2159

 

Real thing: http://www.centcom.mil/

[hobson]

HEY PETER! What do you think of our war plan now!!

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Great letter to Fox !!

[cibco]

"You know, there's a lot of talk about Nazis, but these guys seem worse. Can any historians out there remember a case where soldiers forced citizens of their own nation out in front of them to die?"

Russians in WWII... Just off the top of my head.

[TigersEye]

Note to reporters: Saddam is hiding in the basement of the palestine Hotel.

[aloysius89]

re: tank shown in video this morning on fire (M1A1)

I believe that since Greg Kelly reported their excursion this morning was a "there and back" that they had a disabled tank and had to destroy it because they couldn't recover it immediately. Remember this when Ol' B Bob reports a destroyed tank. I work with a guy who used to build these things and our M1A1's can't take out our M1A1's with a tank round.