***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 22 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 10, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Operation Iraqi Freedom

This Thread is dedicated to the Countries of the Coalition

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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	Day 21

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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

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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...

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, I loved that "they won't join" because of this thread line.

One, sounds like Baghad Bob. Two, then those friends are obviously too stupid to get the feel for the entire site. I wonder if they choose a new car based on the tires.

[BagCamAddict]

Further, I've heard conflicting reports, one of which is that pesticides were indeed found above ground, and the suspect material was buried and disguised.

Well again... reporters are gullible. Just because a drum has a label on it that says "Pesticide" does not mean it actually contains Pesticide. Thus the need for the laboratory analysis.

[Krodg]

Maybe if you were reading the posts instead of bashing the room, you would have read that already. Excuse me..If you had read any of my posts past the one where I was sick of hearing "WANKING" all day....you would have seen that most of my posts were for prayers. I have asked for prayers and prayed for others....you have been in my prayers.

[cajungirl]

Krodg ole chap, you really need to lighten up. This is not a newpaper. If you want the news go to drudge and click on the links. We are friends here sharing a great wartime experience. Alot of us were here for the great recount among other events. It is important to us. Actually saving these threads would be great..anyone can pull news articles,,this is a real sociological phenomena, people finding common values, humor, friendship online on a political site. You could write a book. But ole boy, you just have to go with the flow, chill out,,and besides, you are not the boss of us.

[Capitalism2003]

just sign on...just read all the news of the day...all I can say is...

the dems are FINISHED!

[BagCamAddict]

Krodg makes absolutely excellent, SANE, and POLITE points. Several of you jump on him/her like children. "Oh yeah? Well your mother is fat!" That kind of emotional, childish reaction is the same kind of thing that pisses most of you off about the "Arab" world. Baghdad Bob doesn't have a military leg to stand on, so he calls the Americans names. You can see how rediculous it is when he does it -- can you see how rediculous it is when YOU do it?

What is wrong with "you people" that you can't see the point that is trying to be made? And why can't you respond in a HELPFUL (rather than devisive) way?? Krodg is simply making a point that if you want to drop in for news, it is utterly impossible. You can't sift through 6000 posts to get a "quick update."

Here is an example of a HELPFUL reply:

Krodg: To get the best headline updates on BREAKING war news, click on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/t-breaking/browse

And to get all the news/activist topics posted, click on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/t-editorial/browse

After someone showed me WHERE I could find the news I was looking for, then it was no longer important that I couldn't sift through 6000 posts of wankerisms. So I completely empathize with Krodg... both the frustration of not being able to get the news due to all the chit chat, and for being stonewalled for even bringing up the subject. But now that I can find the news AND chat, I'm a happy camper. :-)

[Fledermaus]

From you mouth to the voter's ears.

OLLIE ALERT

[Conan the Librarian]

Preach it! I have gotten more news off of this series of threads than anyplace...FR or other news sources....and then there are the laughs!

[oceanview]

Ollie: front line troops believe Saddam in Tikrit.

[SoldiersGirl]

nice to know, I'm a prayer warrior myself. Surprising to me that a fellow person of prayer would be the same type of person to show such open hostility to a thread filled with so many proud, joyful, honorable, conservative and strong people. These are the exact qualities I continually pray to find in my fellow man.

by the way, the word of the day is WANKER, not wanking.

[overtaxed_canadian]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4675-2003Apr10.html

MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Iraq, April 10 – The tip came in overnight, Marine officers recalled: Former president Saddam Hussein and his younger son, Qusay, were alive and hiding out in a house near the center of Baghdad.

Under cover of darkness, a detachment of Marines raced to the scene before dawn today, only to be greeted by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades from a nearby mosque. The Marines returned fire and found themselves in an hours-long shootout, one of their most intense of the three-week war in Iraq.

In the end, one Marine lay dead and 22 others were injured, officers reported to headquarters here, while dozens of bodies of non-Iraqi Arab combatants went down around the house of worship. Neither Hussein nor Qusay was found, but someone had been protected, U.S. officers concluded afterward. Just before the Marines had arrived, they said, four to eight vehicles were seen speeding off by a Predator reconnaissance drone.

[Krodg]

This wasn't set up to "honor the soldiers" although we do.

What was the purpose? Chat?????

[POGIFFMOO]

My mother IS fat!

[knak]

Hi guys, what's up? I haven't checked in here much in the past couple of days. Been really busy. Are the bagcams still up and showing anything of interest? And has Baghdad Bob flown the coop?

[Jackie-O]

Okay, okay, I started it. I'll leave but I'm taking my Wankerisms with me!!

[cajungirl]

well you are nice and only here for six days,,quit trying to shame us ole timers. Blogd just comes across as such a judgemental controlling ole boy that he gets on my nerves. again, this is a situation room not a newspaper. Other sites do that better. Besides I am exhausted from the war and don't want the thread cops around here!!