***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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[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.