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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[CurlyBill]

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

YES!!!! That would be a glorious moment!! It also would be a bit bitter-sweet. His wife has already remarried... as she thought for years that he had been killed.

[Amanda King]

United States of America National Anthem - Last Stanza

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[Dog]

:-)

[epluribus_2]

Brokaw is listening RIGHT NOW to an analyst - This is a War of Liberation - You are a history scholar - iraqis to be grateful to Bush...

[Not A Snowbird]

Now THAT gave me goosebumps. We should sing that stanza more often!

[epluribus_2]

oops. was senator warner. never mind.

[Mo1]

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

Yes, there is still alot of clean up to do ..

[SirAllen]

Expect confirmation of WMD finds tomorrow. I believe we've known for weeks now, but have been holding back until this thing was nearly over.

[Green]

Well! Of all days for me to have an early morning meeting at the office and then just now be getting out! I missed a very exciting morning!!!

God Bless our Troops and the FREE Iraqis!!!

[Fracas]

I liked Rush's list. A walled off tiny little neighborhood sounds good to me....but let's take away their pens and computers - we need to prevent them from inflicting more damage on the undecided 'moderates'.

[Not A Snowbird]

Where, oh where, is Baghdad Bob???

[alnick]

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

Nobody wants to admit to ever having opposed this war. LOL.

[Mo1]

Where, oh where, is Baghdad Bob???

Hiding under his bed ?

[Timeout]

Where are you hearing Brokaw? I've got Martha on my NBC channel. (and she AIN't liberating Iraq!)

[amom]

I'm back. So good to have a rather free from too much restriction type job.

Your children are fortunate to see this today. They will never forget their feelings of seeing it with you, as they become adults in 'their' century.

Absolutely!

[retrokitten]

I don't think that city would have to worry about a whole lot of tourists.

[epluribus_2]

PMS

[Cboldt]

Saddam's regime collapses; Baghdad erupts in jubilation (AFP <-- Link

"We're ecstatic to get rid of him after all these years of war and deprivation," said Dinkha Khosina, joining hundreds of Iraqis to greet US troops racing from Baghdad's northern entrance to the heart of the capital.

"Welcome, welcome!" Baghdadis cried out in English, as young people took off their T-shirts and waved them in joy in front of the US soldiers.

"This is the greatest feeling I've had in my life, after spending 11 years in military service because of all the wars Saddam has put us through," said Ayub, who did not want his family name used.

[Mrs.Liberty]

Sandy, I heard on the radio news this morning (David Cheter(sp?)), Sky News, that he had seen Bagdad Bob hop into a sedan this morning(evening, Iraq time),with some of his staff, and drive off towards the north.

[angelwings49]

I heard earlier on Fox that "combover" (the Iraqi UN guy who is now unemployed :) was due to come out of his apartment... but for "obvious reasons" he apparently changed his mind -- has anyone heard him say anything yet??