***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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[Centurion2000]

That should be it's own thread ..... :)

[Consort]

Richard Engle on CBS BagCam.

[Cboldt]

Listening to Ollie, the media is lying down on the job again. There is alot going on, right now. The media is missing important stuff. Ollie's report is dynamite, listing countries that have been "contributing." Egypt, Somalia . . .

Vigilate justice going down in Baghdad. Anti-aircraft fire from NW side of Baghdad.

[Miss Marple]

Tom....you are right!! I forgot about the bombs being used up. More than anything I think that is why we took so long to go after Iraq.

Fledermaus...I agree with you. I would love to see an in-depth book about the strategy and the decisions mae on many levels. You know they were juggling, improvising, and jury-rigging things to get the plan accomplished. It will be a fascinating story.

[lavrenti]

Ollie is really going off on the Syrians.

Good. They need to get cleaned out but good.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Ollie says that a Somali tried to blow Marines up at a checkpoint with a grenade, but he dropped the grenade early, it rolled inside his pantleg, and he blew himself up without hurting one Marine. He saw two Ba'ath party members hanging from lamp posts.

[Timeout]

Pretty Chicken!

What on earth got Richard out of bed this early...he's more of a 2PM kinda guy!

3--2---1 LOL!

[johnb838]

THey aren't going to get away with that one. No more than democrats trying to say they aren't soft on defense. Not even liberals believe that one.

[Fledermaus]

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.

Which was proven a bad idea in Yemen when the USS Cole was attacked. Clintoon's thugs set up deals to fuel up in port to "save money" when we used to fuel those ships at sea. What idiots. My brother just retired from 20 years in the Air Force. He's seen it all. The horror stories during the Clinton years are awful. The number of good men that just quit. He even told me Clinton wouldn't survive a visit to his base. They hated that man.

[tame]

Did you hear Dan Rather end his segment talking about the "death", "pain", and "despair" in Baghdad tonight?!?

I was furious!

[GOPyouth]

Damned skinnies.

[blastbaby]

Was that Richard?? All I saw was a figure basked in white light. I thought I was having an epiphany.

[Mo1]

BUT THEY SLAMMED THE PRESIDENT AND THE MILITARY IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA EVERY CHANCE THEY COULD

Thank goodness for video tape.

Yes Indeed .. and may their words forever haunt them .. I for one will NEVER EVER forget what the Dems said and did

[Timeout]

Richard must be going on Nightline tonight, that's got to be it.

Y'all, turn on the CBS BagCam. Pretty Boy's gonna do his counting to 18 routine!

[lavrenti]

"lots of French & German ammo"

Oh yeah, that would be Syria. I think the Jordanians buy ammo from us.

[Cboldt]

One of Bill Clinton's objectives was (is) to diminish the stature of the US. Imagine that.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Yes. I heard Ollie say Syria is sending a lot of the terorists in to fight the coalition.

[oceanview]

don't be furious, let him cut his own throat. have you seen their ratings? this war is the death blow to traditional network news.

[Consort]

Could have been an apparition — the Iraq Spirit Of Freedom.