***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.

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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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[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.