***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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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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[TheLion]

Heard Ollie's report. He also mentioned they were killing fanatics from all over that part of the world...they weren't Iraqis.

[hobson]

I don't blame him for getting mad.

Me neither. Don't mess with my Shep

[hobson]

I don't blame him for getting mad.

Me neither. Don't mess with my Shep

[TheLion]

Just turned to it...will watch their take on things for a few moments and report.....if I don't get sick!

[Fledermaus]

Sorry, I thought that was an href

[GOPyouth]

I think a lot of the flack from here was from a big misunderstanding as to what he was talking about.

[kcar]

Why didn't Fox have a Baghdad cam? You Fox lurkers I want Bill Reilly to address this serious issue tomorrow night. Otherwise Bill is just another spinning weazle who avoids tough questions and inflates his own ego.

There: the gauntlet's been thrown down. What are you made of?

[spectr17]

CNN poll,

Who should run Iraq?

US 45%

UN 43%

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox pulled out of Baghdad a few weeks before the war started. They have agreements to use other channel's feeds on the air, but probably not on-line.

[hobson]

Yes, your right. The initial post totally mis-characterized what he said and everyone pounced on it.

[spectr17]

The remaining 2% of CNN poll were Floridians who couldn't find their arse with either hand.

[TheLion]

CNN just showed a stupid poll that showed who should control post/war Iraq. They had 48%US and 45%UN.....this is how they try and push their agenda. This poll is a lot of bunk.

[retrokitten]

Did you know Greta and her husband are scientologists? That really doesn't have anything to do with anything we were talking about. I just thought I'd throw it out there.

[retrokitten]

Oh my God! That's hysterical!

[Cboldt]

NewsCorp just entered an agreement to buy Dish Network. O'Reilly can now advocate for a Fox Bagcam, but seriously, action there is downhill. Might as well watch the Milan-Cam.

[dogbyte12]

Scientologists are wankers.
Wankers the lot of em!

[Consort]

Camera Mike and his reporter (both British) filmed a live firefight in southern Iraq a couple of weeks ago. At the most crucial moments, he left the camera to seek shelter—and left it pointed in the wrong direction both times.

[Fledermaus]

And easily scammed. They lost big time on some con man's ponzi scheme.

But Social Security is the biggest ponzi scheme out there, no wonder idiots like her think it's a necessary program.

[Timeout]

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Saddam bought it in that restaurant-bomb.

All the Baathist authorities cleared out the very night after the bombing. Word is leaking out that there've been NO intelligence intercepts since then.

I mean, he may still be crawlin' around the Baghdad sewars like the rat he is, but my conclusion is: that's partly his dust we see blowing by the BagCam.

I sure hope I'm right.

[fiesti]

hey Shep is mine !!!! :-)