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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[TomGuy]

David Lee Miller just cracked a joke

I didn't catch everything he said, but I thought he also said:

journalists in Bagdad no longer had to have minders.

[Kip Lange]

Heh, I'm so happy, I haven't even bothered to think about the DUmmy reaction. Any choice snippets of amusing wilfull blindness? ;-)

[dsw]

Lindsey is now asking a producer if it is true that crowds in Saddam City are actually chanting and throwing flowers at US troops.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

CBS Bagcam just has the normal picture on.

[Consort]

Testing testing................

[kcvl]

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported yesterday that US Marines have secured a city south of Baghdad Al-Tuwaitha where a nexus of underground labs, warehouses and bomb-proof offices extends beneath a site owned by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Agency.


Around the city, Iraqis ventured out into the streets, greeting U.S. troops with smiles, waves or a thumbs-up. Hundreds of Iraqis cheered U.S. troops in Saddam City, a poor neighborhood in northeast Baghdad.

"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Bush!" one shouted.

On a Baghdad street, a white-haired man held up a poster of Saddam and beat it with his shoe. A younger man spat on the portrait, and several others launched kicks at the face of the Iraqi president.

"Come see, this is freedom. This is the criminal, this is the infidel," he said. "This is the destiny of every traitor. He killed millions of us."

"We are with the U.S.!" said one man, carrying a rifle with one hand.

[cajungirl]

Just got up,,did they celebrate on our cbs bag cam,,it looked pretty staid to me. I want looters. I want tanks. I want hunky marines. I want cheering children throwing flowers.

[umbagi]

'Zactly!...

Who was that woman? "Lyn" something... She spun _everything_ as far to the left and as negatively as she could. Is she on the DNC's staff?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Correction, CBS just switched to CETCOM breifing room.

[AFPhys]

DUh has been really funny the past several days. I can't stand going over there for long because I find it so hard to navigate, and I am never able to rediscover a thread I posted to just hours before over there.

What I can say is that they have really been rather abashed by the last few days' events, though.

[bornintexas]

My hubby and I just woke up to the good news and saw Patti Ann......I said theres Patti Ann Yumm Yumm....he said, "what?"........lol

[NTNgod]

NTV has Lara from CBS audio

[thedugal]

getting dark.. Noooo!! damn, I want to see tanks :(

[Timesink]

Any choice snippets of amusing wilfull blindness? ;-)

Not really. About 50% of them seem to be intentionally talking about anything else they can think of to pretend Iraq doesn't exist, 25% think every picture coming out of Iraq has been staged the The Bush Junta, and 25% have just given up.

[Howlin]

They don't seem to really be hurting anything or anybody, do they?

[Straight Vermonter]

Lara on NTV.

Asking New York if they are seeing people cheering troops. I wonder what she will say on air.

[atomic conspiracy]

"Heh, I'm so happy, I haven't even bothered to think about the DUmmy reaction. Any choice snippets of amusing wilfull blindness? ;-)"

They are doing an Orwellian about-face and actually deploring anarchy and vandalism for a change.

[rolling_stone]

I wonder is Al jazeera is broadcasting this liberation..

[Consort]

Lindsey Hilsum.