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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[Carolina]

Sky's got an Iraqi exile doing voiceover. He says, "Nothing can take away from the joy of liberation."

[blastbaby]

So I guess that takes away from the celebrations - sheesh - someone shoot a round at that idiot.

[Timeout]

Russert was just taking in the moment. Brokaw was talking about the years of oppresion in the region and the camera went to Tim...he was crying...not tearing up...CRYING! Tears of joy. Prolly thinking of little Luke watching this incredible moment.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You are very welcome. Is this a great place to be on this great day, or what!?!

[Right_in_Virginia]

OMG! What a spectacular day in history!

I am so proud of our troops and our president!!!

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Let the right "beat" wrong.

That makes more sense. Every time I listened to Hannity, I would wonder about that line.

[steveegg]

Classic quote of the day. Thank you, Rev. King.

[AppyPappy]

It's probably true. The Sunnis will lay low for now. They supported Sadman

[hobson]

Those people are truly demented.

[An.American.Expatriate]

thanks for the re-cap - my evil boss kept me in meetings from 2:00 am EST thru now...

[Timesink]

Tim Russert crying on NBC

Tim was CRYING?

[Carolina]

Engle reporting that everyone around the statue is Shiite.

Richard needs to get down off his ivory tower. Chicken boy.

[GOPrincess]

Wonderful. Thank you for describing Russert's reaction. Sometimes he makes me nuts, but on the whole I like him and was interested to hear how emotionally he responded to this.

[Michael81Dus]

Many thanks!

Psalm 100

1 Shout for joy to the LORD , all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his [1] ;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
1 I will sing of your love and justice;
to you, O LORD , I will sing praise.
2 I will be careful to lead a blameless life-
when will you come to me?

Psalm 101

I will walk in my house
with blameless heart.
3 I will set before my eyes
no vile thing.

The deeds of faithless men I hate;
they will not cling to me.
4 Men of perverse heart shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with evil.

5 Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,
him will I put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
him will I not endure.

6 My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he whose walk is blameless
will minister to me.

7 No one who practices deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.

8 Every morning I will put to silence
all the wicked in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer
from the city of the LORD .

These are the new international versions from biblegateway.com (I got the link just through FR).

[abner]

[atomic conspiracy]

Why are we paying soldiers to vandalize statues????????? This is so goddamned ridiculous.......... F**K these 'troops'. I don't give a shit if they all get their asses killed

Attention, DU lurkers! Do the right thing, join your gods Goebbels and Streicher! Your world is over, there is nothing left!

[Taco Consumer]

[FoxGirl]

re: Russert crying----maybe thinking about his good buddy Bloom not being there to report it, too.

[aloysius89]

Thank you very much.