***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 20 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 8, 2003 | Various

[hispanarepublicana]

Do we really need higher-ups in the CIA to tell us that Saddam Hussein's son-in-law doesn't have the same DNA?

Well, I've known some people in Arkansas before that might have needed that verification ......

[glock rocks]

i think the boeing B1-B and JDAM projects my brother worked on for 6 years might have had something to do with it as well :o)

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I miss the late night action, but scanned the thread and found this illuminating tidbit: (^: (whoops) Make that: )^: (^:

CNN: Abu Dhabi TV says Iraqi forces are PROTECTING Abu Dhabi TV and have "successfully" protected it.

Congratulations, boastful jackass. You just admitted on international television that your building

IS HOSTING IRAQI TROOPS.

Goodbye Geneva Convention. Goodbye Abu Dhasbi TV. Say hello to Mr JDAM.

436 posted on 04/08/2003 1:23 AM EDT by Timesink

[Timeout]

My goodness gracious, as Rummy would say. Richard just said, "Good report?", fishing for praise.

I wish they'd drop one of those concrete wonders right next to him...not blow him up, you see, just scare the ever-lovin' shiIte out of 'im. THEN we could see him fall off the building!


Is he gone?

[momofsixgirls]

I though I heard him add a 30 year old woman?

[Straight Vermonter]

You bring up a good point about the baby boomers. No offense to any on these boards but much of the reason that the "greatest generation" is in contrast to the boomers. One can only hope that the young men and women serving now are emblematic of a greater generation that is still emerging.

[BagCamAddict]

Enormous crater. 30 ft deep, 30 ft across

vs. the first Market "bombing" - where the crater was a full 3 feet deep and 6 feet across.

[Timesink]

The interview is being redone. He just added another person to the rubble after speaking to his handler.

Did he have an Arab accent? I think we should spread the news far and wide if we have proof of Pretty Chicken intentionally changing the story to suit the Iraqi regime.

[Air Force Born]

Oh, get series.



NAAAHHH.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Awesome !!! I love to hear about that !!!

I worked on some so secret, that DOD & NSA could not even let the name or function.

[glock rocks]

buh bye abu dhabi?

hmmm. we can watch it live...

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[Fitzcarraldo]

My goodness gracious, as Rummy would say. Richard just said, "Good report?", fishing for praise.

Yesterday he was almost crying because his hair was giving him trouble.

[bygolly]

The regime is protecting the journalists by placing snipers behind them and cameras. No doubt the journalists are comforted...

[retrokitten]

Since this war is making me an alchoholic (at least, that's the story I am going with) I think I'm going to crack open the bottle of Italian chardonnay my mother in-law brought me back from Italy last year. (First and last decent gift she's ever gotten me)

[dogbyte12]

Engle basically is sitting inside his hotel room... getting fed whatever, and then regurgitating it on air, as being live from Baghdad. He really doesn't know that much more than anybody else who isn't there.

That is what drives me nuts with reporters. They need somebody "on scene", even when there is no news to report from there. He has not left his hotel room to investigate the crater, so why in the hell should anybody give his report any more credibility because he is hanging out in a hotel room several miles away?

[Cate]

Good morning.. This is a shining example of how no good deed is ever left unrewarded. We are proud of you. Of course, because of all the bad things Saddam has done, he is being punished. Karma gets us all.

[aristeides]

From NRO:

"NO ORGANIZED RESISTANCE :EFT" IN BAGHDAD [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Embed Walter Rodgers reports on CNN. Posted at 10:04 AM

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

"Good morning.. This is a shining example of how no good deed is ever left unrewarded. We are proud of you. Of course, because of all the bad things Saddam has done, he is being punished. Karma gets us all. "

You're so nice... :) Thanks.

[retrokitten]

I horrified by my own bad grammar. Gotten=given

[Timesink]

hmmm. we can watch it live...

So? Welcome to rhetoric. My point was that the building is a known military target, and the reporters are remaining put even though they know it's a military target. My point stands.