***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 21 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Operation Iraqi Freedom

This thread is dedicated to the brave men and women of the

 Armed Forces of the United States of America.

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"Wish You Were Here"

For all the free people that still protest.
You're welcome. We protect you and you are protected by the best.
Your voice is strong and loud,
but who will fight for you? No one standing in your crowd.
We are your fathers, brothers, and sons,
wearing the boots and carrying guns.
We are the ones that leave all we own,
to make sure your future is carved in stone.
We are the ones who fight and die,
We might not be able to save the world, Well, at least we try.
We walked the paths to where we are at
and we want no choice other than that.
so when you rally your group to complain,
take a look in the back of your brain.
In order for that flag you love to fly
wars must be fought and young men must die.
We came here to fight for the ones we hold dear.
If that's not respected, we would rather stay here.
So please stop yelling, put down your signs,
and pray for those behind enemy lines.
When the conflict is over and all is well,
be thankful that we chose to go through hell.

Corporal Joshua Miles and all the boys from 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines,
Kuwait 3/9/2003

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Links to the past threads

Day 1	Day 8	Day 15
Day 2	Day 9	Day 16
Day 3	Day 10	Day 17
Day 4	Day 11	Day 18
Day 5	Day 12	Day 19
Day 6	Day 13	Day 20
Day 7	Day 14

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Mhking's live cam links 

Live Video/Audio Feeds: (If you can't reach a feed by clicking on it, make sure to try copying the address, and pasting it in the appropriate browser -- WMV=Windows Media Player; Real=Real Player/RealOne; MP3=WinAmp/Audion/other streaming MP3 player; QT=QuickTime) FR: Final Update: Streaming Video/Audio Links (Includes info & HTML/Javascript code on how to create your own multi-feeds page)
"Mother Of All War Websites" (Additional links to live audio/video feeds)
VirtualTuner.com - Showdown in Iraq
WWI-TV Portal (WorldWide Internet-TV Portal Site)
Abu Dhabi TV (Real - Arabic)
BBC/Baghdad Cam(Real)
BBC News 24 (Real - 56)
BBC News 24 (Real - BB)
CablePulse 24 - Toronto (WMV)
CBS/Baghdad Cam (Real)
CBC RadioOne - Toronto (QT)
CN8 Philadelphia (Real)
CNN+ (Spain) (WMV)
CNN Baghdad Cam (WMV)
CNN Radio (WMV)
CNN via KGW/Portland (Real - mostly down)
DW-TV Berlin (Real - German/English)
IraqiTV (Real)
IraqiTV (WMV - #1)
IraqiTV (WMV - #2)
IraqiTV (WMV - #3)
ITN News Channel - London (Real - Audio Only)
MSNBC/NBC (WMV/Feeds page)
MSNBC (WMV - Audio Only - Headlines & Breaking News)
MSNBC Bagdad Cam (WMV)
N-TV Berlin (Real - In German Where Available)
NTV Baghdad Cam (Real)
NWCN, Seattle/Portland (Real)
Reuters Feedroom (Real - Raw Video Feeds)
Sky News (56K - WMV/Copy/Paste)
Sky News (BB - WMV/Copy-Paste)
SNN6 Sarasota, FL (Real)
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMV - Fox Affiliate)

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Cboldt's Goody Bag

Baghdad City Maps

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/baghdad_nima_2003.jpg <-- 1.6 Mb
http://www.stripes.com/02/dec02/baghdad.pdf <-- 440 Kb

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[Kip Lange]

Amusing tangent about the guy who's with that embed reporter...he's leading a sniper team (to the best of my knowledge, information is hazy), which should come as no surprise, because at a cookout when we were like...oh, seven or eight years old...he hucked an oversized tinker-toy at me while I wasn't looking, and, from a distance of about fifty yards, hit me smack dab in the middle of my forehead, causing blood to gush in great amounts and my mother to almost pass out. I still have the scar. ;-)

Now THAT'S a born sniper!

[goldstategop]

Anyone second my motion to rename the Baghdad quarter "Freedom City?" I think it has a poetic and welcome ring to it.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Whoah... I think I just say a guy in arab clothes lift his long "nightshirt" and give that Saddam Hussein poster the old man is holdiing an up close and personal "private" insult...

I do believe that is FAR worse than just slapping it with a shoe...!

Another one spit on that Saddam Hussein poster.

[Cap Huff]

Spas, spas, Mr. Bush!

[Daniel Ramsey]

I'm beginning to think that today is going to be like the updated version of Star Wars Episode 6 at the very end when the people celebrate and sing because the Emperor is dead and the Empire is no more.

[Consort]

MSNBC hasn't caught up, yet.

[Tree of Liberty]

LOL, remember the scene in Braveheart?

[GOPyouth]

Someway somehow the LATimes, NYtimes and some of the other left leaning news outlets will report this in the most negative way.

[smokeyjon]

I'm thinking that the word on the street over there is that Saddam bought the farm in that last bombing. The widespread looting and cheering has to have been caused by something...

[Kip Lange]

Dunno, but it certainly looks like a good day for the "Hearts and Minds" campaign (to use a phrase that has been so beaten to death I'm hitting myself for even using it)!

[Consort]

And Daschle is still deeply saddened.

[GOPyouth]

Fox had a banner a minute ago saying US headquarters now at the baghdad airport. I wonder if Franks is up that way still.

[this_ol_patriot]

Sky News. Live from Arbil N. Iraq Kurds singing and dancing.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - A Marine convoy halted, due to a blue flatbed partially concealed. They opened up, causing it to explode. They then just found some SA-2's ready to fire. After that, the crowed resumed their celebration.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Someway somehow the LATimes, NYtimes and some of the other left leaning news outlets will report this in the most negative way.

I can see the headline now, "Regime change leaves police vaccum; U.S. Troops overwhelmed as Iraqis loot Baghdad."

[thedugal]

OK, every hand wringing reporter in the entire world, please say in unison "But why aren't the Iraqis welcoming the Americans as liberators?" - oooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH! I wish I could go back in time one week and beat a few of them to death... grrrr..

[Sir_Ed]

There is NO way that Reuter's correspondents were firing at that tank! If the technology is that good, then it'd have to have been the Reuter's guys were shooting at the tank. Since they WERE'NT shooting at the tank, the technology can't be that perfect!

Ed

[GOPyouth]

Jeanene Girafalo (sp?) said she would come on O'reilly and publically apologize if this happened.

[Kip Lange]

Someway somehow the LATimes, NYtimes and some of the other left leaning news outlets will report this in the most negative way.

"United States Troops promote lawless looting of UN offices." Sure. Easy. Person-un-person at the Ministry of Information...er...New York Times, sorry. :-)

Or maybe they'll just give up and go with Baghdad Bob, and insist that it's actually all being filmed on a soundstage somewhere in California.

[fellowpatriot]

Wonder what bubba's thinking right about now. I keep thinking about his first run for the presidency and how the theme was 'It's the Economy - Stupid'. He accused the former President Bush of caring about foreign policy more than domestic - he had to since foreign policy was (and is) his weak spot.