***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.

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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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[wolficatZ]

CBS is Surestream feed, so it adjusts bitrate to your internet conditions, making it very stable. Decent sound , but picking up a lot of wind on the mics.

[Tree of Liberty]

Both Sky and Fox are owned by Rupert Murdoch. Sky is the more liberal of the two.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Uh... It's past noon, where's Bob?

Paging Baghdad Bob! It's time for your mid-day briefing! That is, if you have any clean briefs left...

Baghdad Bob is due at 5ish. If he doesn't show, that will tell you something about the regime.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nothing (by itself) with being more liberal....

Are they as accurate?

[umbagi]

One bad thing about the NTV cam is if that Saddam statue goes down the palm tree hides the important half of it, where the action will occur.

That's why I keep the "Open" dialog open and set to CBS :-). If I see a Bradley, an M1A1/2, or a crowd anywhere near that tree, I'm switchin'!

[cgk]

Where are you originally from? I'm from CA, but lived in Philly for a year and now hate all CA pizza, haha...

[BagCamAddict]

With respect to why we would leave Baghdad Bob on the air... remember we captured an Iraqi Colonel who was a forward lookout at the Baghdad airport a few days ago? He was found in a foxhole/bunker between the two runways. He was spotting for artillery crews.

He is now our EPW, and being held in a hangar at the airport. From a Sky article:

A captured Iraqi colonel being held in one of the hangars listened in astonishment as his information minister praised Republican Guard soldiers for recapturing the airport.

He looked at his captors and, as he realised that what he had heard was palpably untrue, his eye filled with tears. Turning to a translator, he asked: "How long have they been lying like this?"

Full article at: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/waroniraq/articles/4227725

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Sky network is owned by Rupert Murdoch who owns Newscorp which is the parent company of Fox News.

[fellowpatriot]

In these situations, reality doesn't hit until the tanks start rolling in.

Maybe some good can come out of this for the media, after all, the definition of a conservative is a liberal who got mugged last night.

[Timesink]

Are they as accurate?

No. They are openly pandering the "US intentionally shot the Mighty Journalists" line, for example.

[GOPyouth]

From Texas, which pretty much means I grew up on Pizza Hut and Papa Johns, which pretty much meant I grew up on pepperoni. ;)

There's a place here called Bronx Pizza that is outstanding. Very very thin hard crust. Another place called Pat/Oscar's that has good stuff.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Reuters reporting 100s of jubilant iraqis mobbed a group of Marines in East Baghdad "No more Saddam Hussein!" "We love you, we love you" they shouted at the Marines

[this_ol_patriot]

Stealing cars, chairs, rugs, furniture, guns, anything and everything that isn't nailed down is walking today.

[Tree of Liberty]

I don't know. I think MadIvan would have a better idea than me on that. They broadcast primarily in the UK.

[BagCamAddict]

MSNBC said the word is spreading through the people of Baghdad that Saddam is dead.

"Ding Dong, the Witch is dead,
the Witch is dead,
the Witch is dead.
"Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch is dead."

[DollyCali]

I mentioned in yesterday's thread that I beieve we are keeping him on by design,

We could have taken him out days ago.

I think we will use him at a start of liason in communication w/people..

[umbagi]

New guy on NTV .... Waving a card around.

He just "beaked" in again, to see what was going on :-).

[smokeyjon]

What I want to know is, how come looters always steal doors? I never thought that doors were a hot item, compared to some other fine selections that can be had during a good loot.

[GOPyouth]

Habib will be rollin' around with some new 20s on his car. heh heh

[GOPyouth]

Fox: Looting the UN headquarters.. That's the best news I've heard yet!