***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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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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[Amelia]

I have a question here. In the picture at left:

are the children happy to see our guys, or are they giving them the Arab equivalent of the "the finger"?

I've always heard that the "thumbs up" sign is considered obscene over there.

[mhking]

I've been using 1.3 (although I use Phoenix 0.5 more often & I'm about to install 1.4a); what's the question?

[overtaxed_canadian]

See here regardings the thumbs-up sign:

http://www.balloon-juice.com/archives/002298.html

[aloysius89]

passing out from lack of air laughing til tears come out my eyes and boogers come out my nose
POFLOALTTCOMEABCOMN

[Fitzcarraldo]

MSNBC bag cam. Power is back on, the sound you hear is wind on the mic.

[texasbluebell]

I missed the interview.....what mean and nasty question did the reporter ask? Who was it, what station/paper?

Sory for this late reply, I can't keep up with the thread!

I didn't hear the interview, but from reading comments here, it sounds as if no one knows who asked the dumb question. I caught on Fox a little while ago, the part where her father can't keep talking but they didn't play the part right before it when the question was asked--Rita C. had only set up the video by explaining what had happened.

Then she and her co-anchor were also pretty emotional when the camera went back to them, and Rita said that one of Jessica's good friends, aged 23, was among the 8 who died when Jessica was captured.

[mitchbert]

Sorry, folks, I just stepped back in. Is this explosions on the CBS Cam or just wind noise?

Sorry if I sound stupid, but I'm a little shocked.

[Consort]

I was using 1.2b for quite a while with no problems, but today it started to freeze when I tried to file bookmarks. The bookmark drop-down screen froze. I removed 1.2b and downloaded 1.3 it's working fine. Are you having any problems with it?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Welcome, nic. Is FR going down occasionally for a few minutes at a time..or is that just my computer?

Something really series:

Dear mom and dad -- send toilet paper

[muslims=borg]

I'd like to knock this guy Josh's jaw loose on Fox.

[mitchbert]

Thanks, eh. That's what I suspected. Wind.

[Miss Marple]

Oh, thank goodness someone else saw that jerk. Who is he?

This is the new line from the DNC, in my opinion: we didn't have enough troops, and we won despite the screw-up.

Who was that jerk? He must have some clout because they had Rich Lowry to counter him. I want an e-mail address so I can give him a piece of my mind!

[Consort]

Mike Savage is on MSNBC.

[dsw]

www.talkingpointsmemo.com

[Straight Vermonter]

I set a city map as my desktop so it is handy at all times. My wife thinks I'm weird.

[dsw]

josh marshall is at www.talkingpointsmemo.com

[Catspaw]

CNN's Nic Robertson, reporting from Jordan, said that the neighborhoods near Baghdad International Airport were being cleared out by the Republican Guard & fedayeen so they can take up positions there for an attack on the airport.

My only skepticism is whether the people were being moved out of their homes. It would make our bombing of the area harder if they had human shields.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Wind is gusting - must be a real sandstorm going on away from the city.

What's the story on the power, when did it come back up?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Seminoles OK use of name by Florida teams

Florida Indians aren't PC. (^:

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