***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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< img src="http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/daseal2.jpg" alt="Army Logo" width="151" height="150" >

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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[alnick]

Wow, what a picture!

[Timesink]

Richard just asked this soldier on ABC "What was the worst moment for you? Did you lose any colleagues?" Colleagues!

EVERY member of the US armed forces and coalition forces is his colleague, you Prick Chicken Engel!

[Abigail Adams]

They're replaying video from scenes earlier on the CBS bagcam. Big sadaam portrait to be burned...

[mtbopfuyn]

Naw, the Finance Ministry fire must have been set by a French sympathizer.

[Carolinamom]

Iraqi kissing picture of Bush.....Great! I know how he feels about Bush! (We love and envy Laura!)

[Carolina]

Sky showing video of Iraqis tearing down Saddamn's portraits, beating them with their shoes.

[JFC]

The truth has set us all free.

Thank you God for the wisdom you gave our President Bush.

This is the day that makes us all proud to be not only Americans, Republicans, but humanity, that God gave us the right and the freedom to live LIFE!

[Cboldt]

April 9, 2003 -- Iraqi Liberation Day

Event and Link Collection : April 9, 2003

Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

• Children held as hostages released from Iraq jails <-- April 8 Link
  
• Two Special Ops rescued near Baghdad (Reuters 4:15 AM) <-- Link
• Iraqis celebrate their liberation in the streets (AP 6:38 AM) <-- Link
  Iraqis celebrate their liberation in the streets (Reuters 6:30 AM) <-- Link
• Tanks reach center city Baghdad (Reuters 7:37 AM) <-- Link
• Pictures of "The" statue is coming down <-- Link
• One media self-obsession fades (being in the line of fire)
• Only Iraqi resistance comes from near Palestine Hotel <-- Link
  The only shooting in the city center was from Iraqi paramilitaries firing sporadically at U.S. forces across the river. The firing came from around the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, but the U.S. military did not return fire.
• Iraqi people kick-out Lebanese and Syrian volunteer mercenaries (Reuters 7:30 AM) <-- Link
• Liberal admission that they were wrong about Iraq mission will NOT be forthcoming, time to change the subject
• The quagmire was three weeks in duration
• The Iraqis -are- cheering in the streets
• We did not suffer massive casualties
• Civilian population did not suffer massive casualties
• No mass exodus of refugees
• No massive retaliation on US soil (the liberals will blame the next one on Bush, for liberating Iraq and thereby provoking the terrorists)
• US may lower threat level to yellow (Wash Post> <-- Link
• The Beeb's Iraq War Summary - updated regularly <-- Link
• At CENTCOM presser, Fox News asks first question about POW's held near Rasheed Airfield (after a bunch of selfish reporters ask about keeping reporters safe in a battle zone)
• 4 ID slated for Tikrit (NY Post 7:59 AM) <-- Link
• Marines find torture chamber in Nassiriya (Reuters 11:30 AM) <-- Link

Good Reads

New York Times says Bush is just dumb-lucky (NYT 6:47 AM)
James Doran: Mourning comes to a town called Comfort <-- Read This

[Nefertiti]

OH darn you.. that picture started me crying all over again...:)

Nefertiti

[MEG33]

Hugs ... Celebrate!

[Slip18]

"Is there any books I can read about those old tunnels?"

I have no idea. I've never seen a book on them. But I know they're there.

Have you ever been into the USDC in LA? That building has crazy staircases. Unless you know where they are, you'd never find them.

[Michael81Dus]

"We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing. But let us not forget for a moment, the toils that lay ahead. ... ADVANCE BRITANNIA! LONG LIVE THE COURSE OF FREEDOM! GOD SAVE THE KING"

As a German, born 36 1/2 years after PM Churchill spoke these words on May 8 1945, I can repeat them and may add:

ADVANCE AMERICA!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Morning, Nam! Welcome to Shock and Awe! Free Iraqis partying in Baghdad! Al Jazeera showing the live pics. It's a very good day. (^:

[Carolina]

EVERY member of the US armed forces and coalition forces is his colleague, you Prick Chicken Engel!

What a total maroon. What a fluffhead.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

!!!! Picture in 3779!!!!! YOU MADE MY DAY!!!! HE MADE THE IRAQI'S LIVES!

[Timesink]

Fox News: Iraqi-Americans chant in Dearborn Mich: "Let the Germans (and somebody) say whatever they want, it doesn't matter as long as the Iraqis and Americans speak together."

[biblewonk]

OMG .. You should hear Peter Jenning .. What a POS he is

He is basically saying the statue coming down wasn't that big of a deal

I wonder what his DU screen name is.

[Mo1]

FOX News is showing Deerborne again

HEY PETER JENNINGS .. TURN ON FOX NEWS .. YOU MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT OUR MISSION WAS!!!

[prairiebreeze]

Have a good time AFPhys. (((hugs all around)))

Prairie