***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.

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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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[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

MSNBC just showed footage of an Iraqi urinating on Saddam's picture!!

Is that a bigger insult than hitting his picture with your shoe?

[not-alone]

Fun at work tomorrow, we market Direct Tv. The small but vocal anti war, anti Fox crowd will be very quiet.

[TheLion]

Next: The battle for Tikrit. This ain't over yet.

[Nam Vet]

Quite a tagline there my dear. I was going to post a joke in the midst of that convo, but hesitated. Not sure, I still might.

Nam Vet

[steveegg]

CNN already running "negative" stories....what's the fate of Saddam?

Leave it to the Communist "News" Network to break out the whiner stories. To answer their question, though...

Saddam had best hope that he's already dead, or that we find him before his former subjects.

[prairiebreeze]

His buddy was weilding the shoe treatment on the picture. The second guy, "did something more graphic" as the Brit reporter commented.

Prairie

[overtaxed_canadian]

Pretty Chicken is now talking about trying to track down some US tank crew member. Something about some video footage that I guess the crew member was in.

[TheLion]

"Is that a bigger insult than hitting his picture with your shoe?"

Probably about the same thing!

[steveegg]

Who's going to make it to Tikrit first; the 3rd ID, the 4th ID, the 1st MEF, the 2nd MEF, or some force that I've forgotten to mention?

[r9etb]

Next: The battle for Tikrit. This ain't over yet.

And the 4th ID is officially in-country and ready to roll. Imagine that.

[DollyCali]

Hi All.. so nice to come back after being gone all day & find out you only have 4500 notes to read on thread. Fortunalety I was at Cleveland Clinic w/realtive & located a TV that I & didn't even ask others if I could turn off CNN & put on Fox.. saw all until about 2

[Solson]

Your tagline reminds me of the "white man's overbite" which essentially means when white men like me dance, they hold up their arms, elbows at 90 degree angles, still their but out, move their feet back and forth and for some unexplained reason overbite their bottom lip.

It's okay...we've all done it. Sure, it's nothing to be proud of but it just happens...the white man's overbite. :)

[GOPrincess]

"they will be renaming streets to honor the names of those that have died to liberate them!"

Oh, my...that's a triple "Wow."

[Timeout]

I bet they're telling him to find the Marine engineer who climbed the crane onto the statue.

Eeeeeeew! I DO NOT want that guy to interview with Richard.
Darn, lost the feed.

[TheLion]

Fox just mentioned the 4th might get up there! There is a lot of stuff left to do in the north.

[steveegg]

This has probably been posted but I saw an Iraqi interviewed today who was changing his name to GWB, plus, they will be renaming streets to honor the names of those that have died to liberate them!

I hadn't seen that. A big thanks to the Iraqis doing the renaming.

[GOPrincess]

Thank you for starting these threads each day, and thanks to Howlin for the "pings."

[Fledermaus]

I hope Bush does the same thing with the State Dept. as he does the U.N. - keep them out of post-Iraq policy as much as possible.

Those bureaucrats need purged over at State.

[longtermmemmory]

Today the left were in force with the bias talk. They really, really, really do not understand how CNN and CBSNBCABC are are biased. They don't understand how the use of only Carter and Clinton former staffers is inheritly biased. ABC had Brzinski (spelling appologies) from the carter administration droning on about how in HIS opinion the US has lost the diplomatic war (!!!???) and WE are the ones who need to go to the Europeans to mend fences. He even specifically repudiated the idea that the WWIII was the cold war and we are now in WW IV.

[Timeout]

Oooooo. Richard's phone keeps ringing....c'mon...give out the number, Richie boy!