***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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[DocRock]

Shock and Awe! We can suck the air out of their lungs if they don't give up.

[retrokitten]

G'night, Timeout!

I'm off to bed, too. My plan is to watch Shep in bed, too, but I have a feeling that I'll be fast asleep in a few minutes...

I didn't know it was possible to have bags under my eyes quite this large.

[Tree of Liberty]

Operation Clambake, all about the seedy underside of Scientology.

[ztiworoh]

Hmm, maybe all the hollywood lefty scientologists will drink the magic kool-aid and go to the mothership and we'll be rid of them

[Jackie-O]

LOLL!! Now that's priceless! Condi openin' a can of whoopass!!
Saved to my favorites file! Thanks!

[Timeout]

One last question:

does anyone know what Greg Kelly's usual beat is on Fox?
Bret and Major already have the Pentagon covered, so where will Greg be assigned when he returns?

[melodie]

night all ..i'm gonna go get in bed with Shep!

[Tree of Liberty]

He's been their Atlanta correspondent since he joined the network in Nov. 2002.

[retrokitten]

Yep, they have all kinds of strange beliefs about aliens. There is an anti-scientology website...I think it is xenu.net... they have a ton of information. One of the things they have is the "personality test" that scientology uses to get people in, plus the answers that they want people to have.

[juzcuz]

I should have listened to you before.....

I thought you were being testy about the word Wanker..
While, others here gave me a different description of the word ...
This is hillarious because I originally thought that the Iraqi's were trying to say GO HOME YANKIE and that they mispelled it or came up with their own form of the word thus-Wanker. :))))))ROTFL

[spectr17]

So what's the best thing you've seen being looted in Iraq? Couch? TV? Paintings?

[Cboldt]

The list [of scientologists] is depressingly long and distinguished

Depressingly long, I'll give you. Celebrities are "distinguished" in their own minds, in their own media, in their own time. Celebrities generally leave the same mark on history that you and I will. Except we tend to take better care of our children and families than celebrities do.

[Consort]

When the Liberal Embeds get back to their Leftist Enclaves, they will have to be re-programmed and re-brainwashed after being with real Americans for the first time in their lives.

[Tree of Liberty]

To go to the rest of your post, though, I think he'll be able to write his own ticket when he gets back stateside.

[Jackie-O]

Sounds like a plan!
Nite mel!

[mrsalty]

Window frames

[retrokitten]

I don't know either. This is kind of bad to admit, but I don't remember seeing him before this.

[TheLion]

We will have to do a thread on Scientology. I know little about it.

L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction book "Battlefield Earth" is excellent. However, that does reflect either way, on what appears to be a wierd cult.

[Cboldt]

unconfirmed reports that we're trying to clean up the battlefield before the press arives.

Heck, from the appearance of the pictures, I'd say the reports are confirmed. The battlefields are sterile -- incredibly so.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Now I've seen you comprise good lists in the past. But this one takes the cake! There are some VERY slimy similiarities in this list. I'm still having trouble catching up, but I assume that you know that CC Connely of the Washington Post is another one who claimed that "weapons manufactured by clinton" were what won this war!