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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[mystery-ak]

This is a big thank-you to you...a special Freeper who has taken time to make and send goodies to my son and his friends in his unit....they are so appreciated by a bunch of hungry young men...God Bless you and your family....

[TomGuy]

He actually tried to claim Clinton should get credit for building this bad-ass military! The mind boggles.

The bigger the lie, and the more times you tell it, the more people tend to believe it. They are spinning that for everything they can get out of it.

[retrokitten]

I have got to read that book. Somehow I got on the mailing list for Conservative Book Service and I think they were offering it at a discount.

[babaloo]

Those Iraqi refugees basking in the sun on the coast of Syria will not have a moments peace. They will always be wondering who is behind the next door.

[melodie]

ollie alert

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Ollie's on

[Cboldt]

Vallely just said that Lata-KIA is on the cote d'azur... in Syria?

I heard that too. Obviously my education needs to be augmented!

[Fledermaus]

Do you subscribe to National Review? They had a deal with them to send their book mailings, at no obligation, to subscribers for a while.

[GOPyouth]

Yes, I'm sure that's what that was. This was done right before his 3rd meeting with the Tower Commission. This is from Ollie's book regarding his speaking abilities:

Everyone made fun of his language, which was oblique and indirect even by Washington standards. Some people thought he was putting on airs and deliberately trying to be incomprehensible. Perhaps the most famous example of McFarlanese occured when he testified under oath before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on December 8, 1986. In response to a question about third-country support for the Nicaraguan resistance, McFarlane replied, 'The concrete character of that is beyond my ken.' This statement was one reason that Bud pled guilty to a charge of with-holding information from Congress.

[oceanview]

why not whack them with a hellfire from a predator, if its an above ground hotel, it should be an easy target, especially on the coast.

[tame]

I flipped over to check out the big three networks to see how todays events were being relayed to those without cable. I was stunned to hear Dan Rather's report which was so negative it was shocking even coming from him.

He spoke ended the segment talking about the "death", "pain", and "despair" in Baghdad this night. Listening to this freakin idiot Dan-Bill Clinton's an honest man- Rather, you would have thought we surrendered to Baghdad Bob today!

[Timeout]

Ollie says there are a couple of bodies hanging from lightpoles with signs saying "Baath Party".

So, they did it. Good for them!
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I just got in...is it awfully quiet in Baghdad tonight?

[lavrenti]

Latakia, playground for scumbags since 1945.

Several ex-SS guys made their homes their after the war.

The damn Turks had better run us a solid and close their border.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Ollie reports that he walked through slums worse than calcutta when he went on patrol through the eastern (shi'ite) part of the city. Those people love us. Some people are hanging from lamp posts with signs pinned to them saying "Ba'ath Party". They're also taking care of the foreign fighters. Alot of the ammo their finding is from "friendly" countries.

[Fledermaus]

Very quiet. Everyone, for once, is getting a good night's sleep!

[Fledermaus]

Ollie says Northwest quadrant not secure.

[Lauratealeaf]

You've got something there Miss Marple. I could not believe what I was hearing when Morton Kondracke gave Clinton credit for the victory in Iraq because he kept up the weapons production. What a joke!

My husband (unfortunately) was working in the Pentagon for two years midway through Clinton's Presidency and they were constantly having to fight Clinton's political appointees for everything!

If it had not been for Newt Gingrich and the "Republican Revolution" we would not have had the weapons that have helped us to win this war so far.

I also recall that during the Kosovo police action Wesley Clark nearly used up our tomahawk and cruise missile strategic reserve.

The Clinton administration also civilianized many important logistics operations which put our troops in that convoy that was attacked in harms' way. They did not train for or have the proper protection.

I could go on and on. Clinton downsized the military, not the federal government and it was the support structure that was downsized.

My husband was there and he fought against it. So, we all know that Morton Kondracke is on the receiving end of the Democrat talking points.

From now on I will take that in consideration everytime I hear him open his prissy mouth.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Ollie says the NorthWest quadrent of the city is NOT under allied control, no matter what CentCom is saying.

[najida]

Ollie says there are a couple of bodies hanging from lightpoles with signs saying "Baath Party".

So, they did it. Good for them!
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Yeah....They need to practice some frontier justice for a bit....

BTW, they just mentioned the children's prison.

[johnb838]

Ollie just said they havent killed any Iraqis all day -- all foreighners. And it is definitely not over. lots of French & German ammo. Baath party officials being hung. Dirt poor neighborhoods never seen on TV.