***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.

Please have mercy on us dial up limited FReepers! Limit the big graphics, post links instead. A brief description of what the graphic is would help!  If you post graphics, please "size" them so that our browsers continue to load the rest of the thread!

< 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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[retrokitten]

I don't even have words to say how cool that would be.

[PrivateIdaho]

Just got to work... I wanna go back and start reading posts when all the good stuff started happening... Anybody know about what post/time things started to get interesting?

[Dog]

Tell me did you all get to see tanks roll into our square???

[longtermmemmory]

http://www.ejsmithweb.com/fr/allmedia_v2.asp

it has almost every one. some are down.

[alnick]

Someone with an account over at that other site should post that picture over there. They'd stroke out over that pic.

[MEG33]

It ain't over..they get on top of buildings and take shots at our columns.

[Mrs.Liberty]

Maybe...When I first saw it I took it the other way..telling the US Wanker Human Shields to go home.

[Nefertiti]

I heard the polls showed 90% of Americans favor this war on Iraq....very strongly or strongly, I believe the categories are

Oh really!!! That is wonderful!!!!

Nefertiti

[prairiebreeze]

Don't leave North Korea off the bastard dictator list

Prairie

[kcvl]

There was two "human shields"(one long haired European creep and an ugly female lard butt) yelling at our troops this morning and those two Iraqi guys held that sign up to tell them to GET OUT of their country. It was a pro USA sign.

[Timeout]

I did a ping to "all" at the time the tanks rolled in. If you do a self search, you should find it. It was about 5 CST.

[Dog]

Let's find Scott Speicher!!!!!!!

[Cboldt]

Coalition fighting near Tikrit (AP 11:26) <-- Link

[LauraJean]

I went to the corner then to the link for DUhhh. By the way it is a ''liberal board'' not a ''freeper hell''

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

David Ashner, proud father of a marine son in Iraq

Proud papa, indeed. Hasn't he been great! Hollywood won't dare face David since he K.O.'ed Eric Roberts. (^:

Rush is now listing the anti-American pundits...Jennings, Dowd, Scheer...says, "It's tiresome. The good news is you can put them in a tiny little neighborhood that's not very large, walled off from the rest of America." Calls them irrelevent. Heh. "There is on display a vivid display of vindication." In Iraq. "What we've done here is engaged in something deeply humane, and it succeeded." "It ought to make us more proud than ever to face the rest of the world." "What has been achieved here is a road map." "Doing what you say you're going to do, matters." The transcript is a keeper...so many keepers, so little time, lol!

[InShanghai]

Let's find Scott Speicher!!!!!!!

I agree! Start interviewing people and find out where he could be.

[Pro-Bush]

Don't leave North Korea off the bastard dictator list

Ooops ..My bad.

[PrivateIdaho]

Thanks.... 'preciate it.

[retrokitten]

Anyone watching Mr. Chicken? He seems very effeminate next to that soldier.

[Cboldt]

Baghdad Bob's New Gig <-- Cartoon, pretty funny!