***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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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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[abnegation]

Saw a sign in Dearborn earlier that said "No to Democrats". I'm hoping to see it again and get it on tape. LOL

[tame]

I'm going to write a song to the tune of:

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena

titled

The Same Propoganda from Baghdad Bobby

During the Iran hostage crisis years ago I wrote it as:

The Long Bearded Loony called Ayatola (sic)

[LauraJean]

I need to go to ''spatula city''
what better to say your free then with a spatula

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I thought I'd have a lot to say today...but I'm just speechless.

Guess that dunderhead Rummy and that dunderhead Bush who hired him just don't know anything about creating war plans. Man, they just should've listened to all those military experts on CNN and MSNBC -- they could have avoided all this. We really needed a half million more troops. The great flaw was that they just didn't understand the ferocious power of the Fedayeen in Toyota pick ups, how on earth did they expect our soldiers and our tanks to stand up against the stalwart technicals? What dunderheads, who we really need is...is...is...Wesley Clark!!!

[Dog]

I hear 1:30 eastern.......Rummy and Meyers..

[Carolina]

Saw a sign in Dearborn earlier that said "No to Democrats". I'm hoping to see it again and get it on tape. LOL

Read and weep, Tiny Tommy, Dastardly Dasshole.

[retrokitten]

That is great!


HEY DUMBOCRATS!!! YOU JUST LOST 30-50,000 VOTES IN THE DEARBORN, MI AREA!!!!

[Trust but Verify]

Thank you. What a day.

[CurlyBill]

[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
• Baghdad erupts in jubilation (AFP) <-- Link
• 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
• Iraqi kissing picture of GWB "Hero of the Peace" <-- Picture
• Go Home / Human Shields / U.S. Wankers <-- Picture
• Coalition fighting near Tikrit (AP 11:26) <-- Link
• Baghdad Bob's New Assignment <-- Cartoon

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

[Dog]

I missed it all Scott ...I was at work.

[nicmarlo]

Again, I think we work in the same office.

ROFL...I needed that retrokitten....my computer booted me out of the Internet, and WordPerfect.....aaaarrgh!

[mhking]

Columbia "Million Mogadishus" Prof returns to class at Columbia...

[Timeout]

Did I really see the tanks roll in?

Yep! It was about 5 AM CST. We had been seeing happy crowds on TV for about half an hour, maybe more. The camera teams were out with the Marines in the suburbs.

We were glued to the BagCam while watching the crowds on Tv. The cam was quieter than we've ever seen. No cars, no buses, no poleeeeze parades (LOL!). Just an eerie silence.

And then all the cams started panning around, zooming down the streets, swerving like crazy. Couldn't see anything, but we could hear the excitement as the cameramen tried to capture what they evidently were hearing.

Finally, from the roof cam, we could see lots of civilians RUNNING across the square and , Ba da Bing, there they were! Beautiful M1A1 tanks, Bradleys, all rolling into the square! At first the soldiers were inside while the tanks circled the square...surrounding the statue with military might. People were swarming all over the place and we couldn't believe it when the troops actually started dismounting and mulling in the crowd. People were kissing them and giving them flowers!

It was a glorious moment.

[Lauratealeaf]

I need to go to ''spatula city'' what better to say your free then with a spatula

That's great!!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Hate to ask, but who's "combover"? Thanks.

[nicmarlo]

you gloat, I'll cry and between us well have all the emotions covered

don't forget to add in "frustrated" that I can't be home, really freeping....

[texasbluebell]

A mural of SH in Basra splattered with, appropriately, crude oil.

[Cordova Belle]

My children (now grown) and I STILL use that phrase with each other:

"I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!!!"

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

(^: I suggested we rope em and ride 'em to the border. Lauratealeaf suggested they were in such bad shape we could attack them with a cursor, I believe Caroline favored a cricket bat, and Timeout, hammers. LOL! The press had better shape up.