***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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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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[Anomaly in Illinois]

Since when do we destroy art? Even if it is of Sadam? I've been watching the news, and i've noticed the U.S. marines devoting a lot of their time to knocking down statues of Sadam and the ba'ath party.

LOL, IMO our Marines were engaging in acts of Performance Art.

[melodie]

yes...the art of war.

[retrokitten]

Everything from it was not a prison but an orphanage to the U.S. soldiers fabricated the entire story to it's no different from all of the people rotting in American prisons who were wrongly convicted.

This is just unbelievable. It's interesting that they are the ones claiming that "the children will killed" and here our soldiers release these kids and still our soldiers are the bad guys? Where's that picture of the guy with his head up his butt??

[angelwings49]

The only thing I can think of that would make this day even better, is the confirmation that Saddam and his spawns are dead, dead, dead!

[Fledermaus]

oooh, that's a great line.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"I think this is the shot that may bring the Arabs into the 20th century. One picture is worth a thousand words." - Fred Barnes.

When Mort Kondracke brought up "the Palestinian problem", Fred says the Iraqis won't be bringing up the Palestinians because they know the Palestinians were for Saddam. Brit smiles. (^:

[wolficatZ]

someone on foxnews: "even Bill Clinton deserves credit..."
LOL

[justshe]

If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.

I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

From the lakes of Minnesota,
to the hills of Tennessee.
Across the plains of Texas,
From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Houston,
and New York to L.A.
Well there's pride in every American heart,
and its time we stand and say.

That I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

And I’m proud to be and American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

[steveegg]

"We Arabs are clever only at talking," Haitham Baghdadi, 45, said bitterly in Damascus, Syria. "Where are the Iraqi weapons? Where are the Iraqi soldiers?"

That just about sums it up.

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, an uncomfortable U.S. ally in the war, said the quickest way to achieve stability now would be for U.S. troops to withdraw. "Iraqis must take control over of their country as fast as possible," Mubarak told Egypt's official news agency, MENA.

We'll be out of there just as soon as we can reasonably assure that (a) there isn't another Soddomite ready to try this stunt again and (b) the Iranians don't simply march in.

[angelwings49]

Bill Who???????

[Fledermaus]

Heard yesterday that "the checks aren't coming from Iraq to the Palestinians".

[Jackie-O]

Just do it Freepers.

I just did it, I feel better now! Just signed up to be a monthly donor.

COME ON ILLINOIS! LET'S GET THOSE DONATION $ UP!

(like I said, this was an inspirational day!)

[retrokitten]

Someone needs to tell him that the pull out method never works.

[BreitbartSentMe]

MOAB, MOAB, we want a MOAB

Buh bye, Tikrit palace

[lavrenti]

I just got out of the shower. What happened today?

[Straight Vermonter]

Check this out all: Not in my name!

[Fledermaus]

That was Mort. I laughed. We are lucky we had enough force, but you know a lot was bought in the last 2 years.

I think someone needs to do some investigative journalism and take everyone of these new weapons and research them. I'll bet the Clinton people tried to slow down or even eliminate them.

Remember when the Dems and the biased journalists would do "reports" on how we were wasting money on such failures as the Apache, Bradley Fighting Vehichle and the Abrams tank?

I do.

[knak]

hey everybody!

what a great day huh?

[alnick]

The Nightly Liars on the networks are playing up the "looting" as a negative. For goodness sakes, they are only taking stuff out of bloated government buildings.

And they certainly couldn't have paid a higher price for it.

[steveegg]

Thank you for the donation.