***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.

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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To all who helped this get started and keep it running, thank you!

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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[spectr17]

Easy on them Coasties. LOL

[An.American.Expatriate]

Juggling impossible contradictions is what they do:

Sounds like the Democrats to me!

[reformed_democrat]

I Googled John Loftus, but all I got was his web site.

If this is true, that Russia is involved on the Iraqi side, it will certainly be interesting to see Putin's reaction. I'm betting he does a Hillary -- "Generals? I have no recollection of such generals." "No, I have no memory of that." "No, I don't recall sending anyone to Iraq." "No, I can't find the papers."

[cgk]

Can't make the FNC audio work from that link on my PC. Does it take you 2-3 mins to connect because you keep timing out and have to keep restarting? Or is that a new problem with my pc? Thanks for the link!

[scab4faa]

[scab4faa]

SOUND!

[amom]

excellent..thanks


I have sound on NTV

[LikeLight]

I think I can see a quagmire right out there in the middle of the traffic circle . . . I hope our tanks don't hit it as they roll through . . . ha . . .

[socal_parrot]

Achmed the man!!!

[mrsalty]

WHERE

[Shermy]

Damn... and by the way...you have too much time on your hands... *kicking dirt*

:)

I'll grant you had the idea independently - but not first! ;) FR is a high speed human computer collective.

[amom]

Yeah Achmed!

[reformed_democrat]

I haven't been following this as closely as I should be. I wasn't aware of the interceptions.

Nuts! There goes another conspiracy theory down the tubes.

[Anamensis]

I encourage my husband to go to Hooters with eyes wide open.

You're a smart woman. Hooters is not nearly as dangerous as the ballet. Why do women always want to take men to the ballet? Why do that? Why show them women who weigh 20 lbs less than the average woman and can lift her leg over her head?

[An.American.Expatriate]

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[Elkiejg]

Rick's earlier call was chilling tonight. You could hear the stress in his voice. Shep finally ask him about it and if he was ok. Rick explained he was with troops walking down both sides of the street basically putting themselves out as targets for snipers so they could flush them out and kill them. He also said is was very quiet which was unnerving.

One of the military guys on FoxNews complimented Rick on his riveting dialogue - but that as sniper seeing him with a phone up to his ear would assume he was calling for air strikes or talking to another unit..........they WOULD NOT assume he was a news reporter!! Very scary stuff.

Shep was dumbstruck when Rick told him they had uncovered a PLO training camp earlier in the day. That's a direct tie to terrorists.

For those wondering what's up with Shep, I got the impression he was really concerned for his friend Rick and was trying to be "cool" with it while on the air.

[amom]

swoon

[angelwings49]

Bless your heart! Now I'll be able to sleep tonite! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Consort]

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