***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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[angelwings49]

I wonder if Tom Daschle is deeply saddened today :)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmn.

So you the British Human Shields going to put their sign ON the Hussein statue to "protect art"?

Could be. I HAS to be somebody from Britian to write the hand-written curse against the "invaders" - Nobody else would do that....

That's why I figured the angry Brit's would have written the Magic Marker words.

[retrokitten]

Earlier today there were alot of disruptors lurking about and one of them had the screen name, "muchsaddened". I laughed so hard when I saw that!

[Jaded]

It's not like some of them didn't try.

[EllaMinnow]

I thought the sign was calling the human shields wankers, and telling them to go home...

[TomGuy]

There was a story about a captured Col or Gen a day or two ago. He said after interrigation and seeing western TV/newspaper, he could not believe how much the Iraqi people had been lied to under Saddam. This from one of Saddam own.

In the coming days the Iraqis will be amazed at what the real world is like. And their new-found realizations might cause serious sweating among other dictatorial governments throughout the middle east. Irani government is shaky anyway.

[steveegg]

Daschle's almost always deeply saddened these days. The question is did the Depends do their job or is he also deeply soddened (I'll bank on the latter)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, we read it that way; but I'm not sure that's what was actually intended.

[CurlyBill]

I wonder if Tom Daschle is deeply saddened today

I would say that he is saddened .... because it was not to his political advantage, which is all he cares about. That guy should be run right out of Washington....HE'S A DISGRACE!!!

[angelwings49]

Unless I missed something, I haven't seen any interviews of any of the Dems today... have you??

[melodie]

not a one that i know of

[angelwings49]

And don't forget the remark that Kerry made last week! Another POS!!

[retrokitten]

Nope! Another reason to celebrate!

[Mad Dawgg]

"Daschle's almost always deeply saddened these days."

Speakin of Saddened has anyone checked in on the Duhers today? I am betting there is near hysteria at all the "ptopaganda" on the TV these days.

Heheheh I like it, I love it, I want some more of it!

[TheLion]

I'm wondering what the hell the Iraqi Ambassador will be doing now. Did you see him of the news? He actually said "the game is over".

[melodie]

He was scheduled to be on the Fox Report tonight but i guess he was too busy.

[Capitalism2003]

oh my god...check this out! Free Republic, Elmer Fudd Style!

[steveegg]

I'm sure the UN will give Combover a cushy job so that he doesn't have to go back to Iraq and die.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Heck - Ignore the democrats.

Just wait until the media tommorrow get their talking points faxed to them from the dnc focus groups.

Today's media are parrotting the demo's anyway.

[Mad Dawgg]

err ptopaganda = propaganda