***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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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - LIVE THREAD.

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Special thanks to Null and Void for keeping these threads running on the weekends, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, Ragtime Cowgirl for her Exclusive Live Transcription Service™, Fledermaus for his 15 minutes of fame, and, of course, Belly Girl...

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[Straight Vermonter]

Planes overhead.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Getting several fast moving jets off the cam right now, close air support? hearing close AK fire, waiting for the hi-velocity .223 crack of the M16, I know cause I have 2 Ar-15's and a Mini 14.

[Consort]

Bush will be blamed for liberating Iraq.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

What are you people taking about? The libs assured us all that there would be no Iraqis celebrating us giving them their freedom from Saddam. It all has to be an illusion.

[this_ol_patriot]

I would love to see or hear what we are broadcasting with that plane we have there.

[smokeyjon]

She did indeed. I'm not holding my breath. I hope O'Reilly calls her on it.

[fellowpatriot]

And Daschle is still deeply saddened.

I heard he was suicidal - LOL

[thedugal]

Obviously Zionist propaganda

[Kip Lange]

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

Oh, my, I'd like to see that (Janeane Garofalo, but you WIN points for not knowing how to spell her name in my book, heh). How much you wanna bet it's NOT going to happen and she will find a convenient loophole (see above re: NYT) to somehow spin this as "American propaganda" and pat herself on the back for being above us all (you know, those of us that were dumb enough to finish college with actual degrees and whatnot).

[BagCamAddict]

To Gen. Franks, Gen. Brooks, Rummy, et. al.:

SHOCK and AWE

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

[GOPyouth]

These are celebration bombs.

[fellowpatriot]

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

I heard she's going to hire Baghdad Bob as her spokesman - HA!

[Tree of Liberty]

You should email and remind him of that

[GOPyouth]

I heard he was suicidal - LOL

Too damned funny

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

I heard she's going to hire Baghdad Bob as her spokesman - HA!

Speaking of Baghdad Bob. He's late..... Perhaps he's a no-show.

[smokeyjon]

Kid on FNC cam burning picture of saddam

[Kip Lange]

I hope O'Reilly calls her on it.

Something tells me he'll have noooo problem doing that. :-)

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Ap Via Fox -- no sign of minders or Baghdad Bob.

[smokeyjon]

FNC: Neither Baghdad Bob or any of the journalist minders have shown up today.

[Timeout]

{{{Yawn}}}

Just woke up...why are they showing old scenes of the L.A. riots on all my TV channels???
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Oh! Woooooo Hooooooo!

This is lookin'pretty exciting. Just heard Baghdad Bob was a no-show this morning!