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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[Prince Charles]

Amtraks on the NTV Bagcam now.

[dsmtoday]

Are those amphibious vehicles we see on NTV feed going across that field? Don't look like normal tanks?

[Robert A Cook PE]

UN truck???????

Some loop of previous days shots I'd guess.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Those are Marine troops carriers.

At least one M-1.

[ringgold]

I thought David Chater was the weasel they have been showing in Baghdad.

[wolficatZ]

NTV shows Reuters feeds being sent via satellite from the Hotel Pali to the main station for editing. Most of the stuff you are seeing can be viewed in a little while at http://reuters.feedroom.com

[bootyist-monk]

Yup, M1A1 too. Rolling in formation. Iraqis watching, seem pretty happy.

[dsmtoday]

I wonder if those cars are marked UN in the hopes of not being attacked?

[Consort]

Yep, a UN truck. It must be Blix and his boys.

[BagCamAddict]

Thank you.

Re: us not having DNA on Saddam... if it's true that he and his sons were in that building, all we need to do is find oneof the two sons, then we will have the DNA necessary to do the comparison.

Ted Koppel tonight was saying he didn't know where we would get a sample of Saddam's DNA to prove it was him. But in one of those 50 palaces, there must be a hair folicle or two lying around. Seems like Ted would know better than to show his own personal ignorance on national TV like that. ::: sigh :::

[fellowpatriot]

Get ready for Gulf War II - Part 2.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Notice all the cars/trucks getting pushed?

Seems to me they're running out of gas om Bagdad!

[this_ol_patriot]

That's what has been pissing me off all night. Sky has been carrying Straw and De Villepig and they're acting like we don't even exist.

[umbagi]

Amtraks on the NTV Bagcam now.

About this time every night, NTV starts going through a bunch of Reuters tape, some of it possibly more-or-less current, some of it days old. For instance, the first shot tonight was of the riverbank by the palace during the original "taking" two days ago.

I switched to CBS/ABC -- they've got a working bagcam, with sound, although we'll probably have to endure (or enjoy :-) 3-2-1 Rick Engel when he wakes up and gets his hair right.

[fellowpatriot]

Storm chasers?

[dsmtoday]

wow, this is a pretty wild in car video!

[bootyist-monk]

UN Van cruising highway on video. Hans is back!

[Robert A Cook PE]

YOU'RE ASSUMING THEY'LL pass (to us) the "right" body parts!

They found a leg and kneecap belonging to Saddamn!

(Right. Who's leg? Got fingerprints on that leg?)

[GOPyouth]

The people see the only government official state that no troops are there. Reality is setting into Baghdad and into the Middle East. Whether they like it or not, truth is spitting in the face of what he is/was saying.

The United States government wants the press there. The press is a massive tool, and it's being used to our advantage. And like I mentioned earlier, if the government wanted him off the air, he would have been off the air a long time ago. The more he talks, the more people realize that the regime is full of lies. And if they are full of lies regarding this, has the entire regime been lying to them over the last 25 years?

Take a look at night before last. Baghdad Bob was on the air live outside talking. Our troops were about a block away watching him on the tv. THey were laughing about it. They could have easily killed him. They could have fired a shot in the direction to scare him. But they let him speak.

The same went on in WW2. When troops were rolling into Berlin, the government still was on the radio saying that they were winning and all sorts of false information. At that point the people start losing faith in the government. The same is happening here.

[Consort]

Appliance clearance.