***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

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[texasbluebell]

I like these photos from Basra today. Another one bites the dust!

[glock rocks]

Lynch family will be flying on HJ Heinz company plane. there will be a stopover in DC prior to leaving for Ramstein, expected early morning arrival.

[SoldiersGirl]

HA!!!

nice

[MeekOneGOP]

Baghdad Bob = Iraqi Info Ministry guy...

Oh, yeah! Now I know who you're talkin' 'bout. Mr. Propaganda. The idol of Al-Jazeera. The bill clintoon of Baghdad !

[Green]

I'm not aware of any major happenings since you left SoldiersGirl.

[Dolphy]

I listened to the BBC during the night, so I am taking the opposite of their reports to be the truth. Just a morning update would be great.

[Mo1]

OH BABY ... that is a pretty picture .. Thanks

[mtbopfuyn]

Has anyone seen any of them except Beret Boy and a couple SH doubles lately?

[Jason Kauppinen]

Now that's cool. :)

[commish]

Can't wait to see that same thing happen to the statue on the bagcam.

Just read the article with the laundry list of Jessica Lynch's wounds. Head Wound, Spinal injury, broken arm , both legs, right ankle. &^#%$(&*^%$ BASTARDS!

[TomGuy]

One of Greg Kelly's video reports from last nite going into Bagdad showed one location that had about a dozen .... a dozen... of these statues. They were each about the size of the one being destroyed in the photo.

At first, I thought it was sort of a Saddam Statue Store, but each statue had a slightly different pose.

Saddam was proud of his appearance---also, it was a constant reminder to the populace of who was in charge [operative word being -- was].

[A. Morgan]

BINGO!

[MEG33]

Lovely pic!

[MeekOneGOP]

[texasbluebell]

Can't wait to see that same thing happen to the statue on the bagcam.

Maybe the good guys will get to that one soon.

[ztiworoh]

Reckless Lefty Parents, not war related, but angered me

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ct/20030404/cr_ct/vegans_guilty_on_all_counts_for_malnourishing_baby

[Green]

* We're in Baghdad (confirmed by CENTCOM this morning during the brief) regardless of what BBC says or Baghdad Bob

* Makeshift morgue found that has hundreds of bodies and body parts (reports say appears to be Iraqis from awhile before this war ever started)

* Soldiers digging up area around elementary school based on info telling them WMD were buried there right before inspections started back up

* Dr. released new info today that Jessica was in fact shot, contradicting their earlier statement that she wasn't

* 9 bodies removed from hospital have been identified - 8 of them were from Jessica's unit, 1 from diff unit (don't remember which one it was)

* Coalition does control the airport, nevermind that Baghdad Bob says he has retaken the airport and will take the pressers there to see it when he has it more secured

can't think of anything else right now

[SoldiersGirl]

the 1 from a diff unit was from 3rd ID Ft. Stewart GA

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

See yall later.....

[The Wizard]

corrected copy

I'm an American soldier, too