***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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[angelwings49]

Pretty Chicken alert -- BARF!

[Tree of Liberty]

I'm sure that skinny is seeing the fruits of that damnation right now

[umbagi]

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.

Self-cleaning gene pool...

[retrokitten]

Fledermaus: no I don't subscribe to them, but I'm going to get that book. It sounds like it's really worth the money.

tame: It must have been really bad! I can't even stomach the other channels war coverage. The medidiots just don't get it.

[Fledermaus]

Nap time must be over for Ricky...did he get his wine?

[GOPrincess]

I also switched to MSNBC when Fox went to commercial and saw the "Beautiful Day" montage. I cried.

[Mo1]

The only reason they voted "yes" in Oct 2002 was to "be on record" so slime like Colmes can say "they voted for it".

EXACTLY ..

[Timeout]

Thaaaaat's him!

Oh, here we go. Get New York to tell him what developments are over the last two hours. Then he'll go on and "report" it! Makin' sausage, you might say!

LOL! They're telling him the news and he doesn't know what they're talking about!

[Tree of Liberty]

Ollie found Jordanian mortar shells

[Spunky]

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

What cam are you watching him on?

I was watching on the MSNBC cam and he said "Good morning this is Richard." and then they switched the camera to a different view.

[Timeout]

CBSnews.com

[blastbaby]

LOL - I was thinking the same thing - hard study for him - you can just see his brain cell working. hahaha

[umbagi]

Pretty Chicken alert -- BARF!

"I'm not that familiar with it... Tell me what happened."

He's reporting from Baghdad, but getting his news from New York. What a loser!

[lavrenti]

Syria is the Wal-Mart for terrorism.

They have been a haven for everyone from neo-Nazis to Maoist Palestianian grouplets.

They opened the sewers. Now it is time for them to pay a price for their behavior.

[alnick]

What's the deal with Pretty Chicken?

[Sacajaweau]

Watch Ponderosa reruns everyday. Adam does something for me!! Darn nice buns and boots make you swagger. Very nice!!

[johnb838]

As a secret service agent I knew during Clinton put it "We didn't elect him, we just protect him."

[Timeout]

They're telling him the "news" in his earpiece and he's writing it down! Now he's telling them what questions to ask him!

Who ever thought we'd be able to see right in to the belly of the beast like that!

LOLLOLOLOLOL!

[Fledermaus]

Okay, unless there are 9 posts a minute for the next 2 hours, we aren't going to make 7,000.

Geez, I take a 90 minute break and everyone gets complacent! hehe

[Lauratealeaf]

They hated that man.

Boy, that is an understatement. They had good reason to hate that man. While my husband was at the Pentagon the Clinton administration put a "Gag order" on the military. People had their computers searched by the political appointees to be sure that they were "loyal" to the Clinton administration. Those were really bad days.