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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[Cboldt]

But once there's a new government/administration in place, THEY'LL pick their own UN ambassador to the UN.
(hint: it won't be Combover)

It sure won't. I don't feel sorry for the guy, but I don't have a problem if the US grants him immigrant status. He's a desk jockey, did his job, and now needs to find a new job.

[retrokitten]

Okay, now you made me jealous. I'm stuck at work. I can't wait to get home to see the footage.

[GOPrincess]

Shep gets a little wild and incautious occasionally...but he's got a great, unique style and I think as the years go on he'll get better and better.

[Catspaw]

Sky News just showed Iraqis in London alternately cheering and sobbing--cheering for the liberation of Iraq and sobbing about their relatives who've been tortured and killed by Saddam.

[kcvl]

Qadria Alasady, right, celebrates next to a poster of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) at the Kurdish Human Rights Watch Wednesday, April 9, 2003, in El Cajon, Calif. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

A swastika sign is seen on a defaced ceramic tile portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in Basra.(AFP/Odd Andersen)

[tame]

But you can't take away from the fact that today is a very good day.

Yes, It is, indeed.

[Mo1]

I missed that because I was furious that only half of the Senate felt the need to listen to a briefing by the Secretary of Defense and Gen. Myers. That is appalling.

Appalling yes .. Surprising, No

[Timeout]

I loved the moment when the statue came down.

But, hands down, the BEST moment was the instant those tanks drove into Firdos Square...on the webcam! It only took a few minutes before it was apparent the civilians were there to greet them, not beat them. Oh, happy day!

[retrokitten]

Yes, those who can write like that are gifted.

[GOPrincess]

That's a great update!

I wouldn't have even known about Chicken Boy w/o FR since I don't watch that station...he was really something else. Looked awfully silly compared to Kelly, Leventhal, North, Arnot, Bloom, et al.

[TomGuy]

While you're waiting, check out this thread:

Bagdad falls.

It has some good pics in the thread.

[Petronski]

"I am deeply saddened."

[Sam Cree]

Jane will fit in very well in Quebec :-D

[ztiworoh]

He's also a member of the Ba'athist regime, do you think Saddam gave that job to just anyone?? Believe me, he may not be in the fatigues or look as rough as the men in Baghdad, but he's just as guilty

[Catspaw]

It sure won't. I don't feel sorry for the guy, but I don't have a problem if the US grants him immigrant status. He's a desk jockey, did his job, and now needs to find a new job.

I sure object.

He could go to Russia, Syria or any other place--but he's NOT going to stay here.

He reminds me of that Information Minister that the Taliban had in Pakistan. After the Taliban fell, he asked Pakistan for political asylum. They said no--and he's now been relocated to Guantanemo.

[O Neill]

Antiwar protestors are circling their picnic blankets and fingering the dregs of their trail mix bags, wondering what to do next, like dogs whose food bowls been moved...

That's GOLD, Timeout, pure GOLD! ROFL.......

[retrokitten]

and sobbing about their relatives who've been tortured and killed by Saddam.

I'm sure this is bitter-sweet for many Iraqi's for just that reason.

[kcvl]

U.S. Army Sgt. John Beck from Miami, Fla. is welcomed by residents of Baghdad Wednesday, April 9, 2003. The soldiers from the A Company 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment took over a section of northern Baghdad with a warm welcome from many residents, but under sporadic rocket and small arms fire from irregular Iraqi forces.(AP Photo/John Moore)

An Iraqi waves a pre-1991 Gulf War (news - web sites) Iraqi flag (without the slogans "Allahu Akbar", or God is great, which President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) later introduced) in Baghdad's al-Fardous (paradise) square(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

[GOPrincess]

"I am awaiting Diogenesis' GOTTA SEE for today. I'll bet they well be something!"

Be sure to put a link here, would you? :)

[justshe]

Thanks, Ragtime. I missed your post. Since the link was 'broken' (red faced), I'll use that as an opportunity to REPOST my original post (grin). Maybe get some more action on the Freeperthon thread.....if only some stopping by to tell Jim 'thanks'.

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