***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.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

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To all who helped this get started and keep it running, thank you!

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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[MEG33]

I am speechless ! What a picture.

[tame]

... Do your part. Have a soldier over for a steak when they come home.

I love it. Conservative hispanic women really know the way to a man's heart:-)

[texasbluebell]

May we never forget the sacrafices that our coalition forces have had to endure in this day of liberation.

We'll never forget.

[Chemist_Geek]

(Newscorp stock up AGAIN today...that's Fox's company! HA!)

Thank you, FoxNews, again!

BBC World Service reported this morning EDT that News Corp was in negotiations with General Motors to buy GM's Hughes division, including its DirecTV satellite service.

[retrokitten]

That is great! I have to say, that I can't wait either!

[nicmarlo]

May the Klintoons live in infamy for all the evil they have committed.

[prairiebreeze]

GREAT PIC HOWLIN!! That one is a keeper!

I had a thought a little while ago. Check out the weather in Baghdad. It wasn't cloudy. It wasn't raining. There were no sandstorms.

God did His part to let the WHOLE WORLD SEE some of His people being brought out from under the boot of a tyrrant.

God is smiling right now, I believe.

Prairie

[Carolina]

Hey, NV! You'll have to toast with your Kurd friend today. Send him our well-wishes.

[hobson]

Wow. That is truly heartwarming! tears...

[AFPhys]

I'm running off to be with some other friends this afternoon and evening. Thank you all for the excitement and comfort you have given me and mine.

((((((HUGS)))))) for one and all...

[TigersEye]

The Clinton Legacy is slipping further and further in the footnotes section of history.

With all due respect, TomGuy, no it hasn't;

With the same respect I must agree with nicmarlo. The legacy of giving multiple nuclear warhead tech. combined with state of the art precision ICBM guidance tech. to China has yet to play itself out and there is so much more.

The world will be very lucky if the Clinton Legacy doesn't wipe out 100's of millions or billions of people. It IS that bad.

[Mo1]

Needs repeating ..

Men and women in the Military give themselves for us anywhere they are called to do so. Just ordinary men and women. They are the Heros. Not the Hollyweird ilk, not the athletes, not the political shills. The men and women in uniform. May God bless them all.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The Clintons will probably blame their ghost writers for quitting.

ROTFL! What did they know and when did they know it?! LOL!

[Carolina]

FNC is showing Deerborn Michegin

American flags waving!!

[nicmarlo]

rintense: you have to see this one:

[kcvl]

Christopher Dickey?

‘We Will Turn Bush Into a Dog’
The Americans badly miscalculated by believing that the Iraqis would welcome them as liberators


http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:sKfr2HpK1eoJ:www.msnbc.com/news/891794.asp+Iraqis+hate+Americans&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Shock and Awe at the pic, Howlin. Thank you!

[AFPhys]

I agree with you, it is that bad... but we need to smell the roses along the way of addressing those problems. This is a day for celebration.

[nicmarlo]

The world will be very lucky if the Clinton Legacy doesn't wipe out 100's of millions or billions of people. It IS that bad.

I shudder to think....

[InShanghai]

BBC - Meeting in Nasariya with Iraqi officials to form interim govm't per VP Cheney.