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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[Howlin]

I'm very upset about this; more pictures of THEM tonight than anything else.

[spectr17]

CNN,

USAF offloading heavy armor, (M1 Abrams tanks) in north Iraq with 173rd Airborne.

They showed NV video of ramp down with tank coming off. Aircraft appeared to be a C-17.

[paul544]

Did the Dixie Shix win anything last night?

[JLS]

Narcissism on the part of the press is hardly surprising is it? If they spent some of the time they spend on press analysis on actual news, think how well informed we might be?

[Consort]

The picture illustrates selective compassion.

[Prince Charles]

Yeah, the two Skyboys (in Doha and Baghdad), among others, are a wee bit too fluffed up with themselves.

[Howlin]

I'd be interested in hearing a discussion about this incident between a "hotel jockey" reporter and an embedded reporter, wouldn't you?

[Howlin]

I bet the embedded reporters would have fired on that building.

[Mrs.Liberty]

selective compassion and selected outrage...

[O Neill]

I have no problem with those Islamakazis jumping into the meat grinder...

The sooner they're all embedded with the 70 virgins, the better off we'll all be...including the Intelliraqis.

[Prince Charles]

I'd like to read one straight news story on the front page of a major daily paper. It can't be done.

[nicollo]

re. dead reporters.

Forgive my subtlety. My "friendly fire" analogy was to illustrate the absurb and exaggerated reports over loss of their own -- as opposed to losses of our fighters.

They "report" friendly fire incidents, yet burn our boys in effigy over killed journalists. If there was any consistency in their reports, they would have called or related this "friendly fire," or "collateral damage," i.e., firing upon the wrong target. If we took out a sniper, then it was a legitmate attack. All I hear from the media is that there "were no" snipers in the hotel or near the Al-J building. But they go no further: they attribute malign intentions, as opposed to other "friendly fire" incidents in which the loss of life is reported as regrettable.

Consistency would require that, without acceptance of the presence of snipers among them, they attribute these incidents to accidental or unintended causes. All I see is damnation. They suck.

[Slip18]

Here is a photo of my other nephew.:

[Fracas]

Shep was responding to those Emails that DID say 'screw those journalists'....not to the Emailers who complain about the press in general.

Another story will come along to replace this one. Based on the ratings, not too many people are hanging on Christine Amanpour's every word.

[GOPyouth]

I wanted to clarify something real quick regarding all of this. I do not blame the military for firing back. If their sensors picked up a sniper flash from that area, by all means, fire.

[nicollo]

The press is actually calling it a violation of the Geneva Convention, and is demanding an investigation. So they're claiming we aimed for them.

It's worse than I thought. Oh well, to be expected. History will not remember this. The press will NOT win this war.

[Mrs.Liberty]

grrr...selected=selective..

make that selective compassion and selective outrage.

[Dolphy]

The details may be wrong, but I still find it an interesting theory. There is a reason Putin said we were going to be sorry for this war, especially when he knew we could blow up Iraq many times over. Chaos was the battle plan, not conventional warfare. There is a long Cold War history in the region too.

[spectr17]

CNN, Rym Brahimi, citing her sources in Baghdad

Errie quiet over Baghdad this morning. No militia out to speak of. People very afraid, not sure what's up with Sodomy.