***Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 19 MAY 03/Day 61 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 19 MAY 03 | null and void

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Operation Infinite Freedom

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Good Morning.

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

It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related 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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Cheney: "The only way to deal with this threat is to destroy it...There's no treaty, no peace agreement....to deal with it." ...

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ping!

[Paleo Conservative]

[Terriergal]

I love all the little a&&es er... I mean donkeys all racked up on the plane!

[TexKat]

Thanks again and again nully.

[ahadams2]

I LIKE IT - sent to my entire list!

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Unlike you, I don't sit around begging government to perform my work.

Meaning, I suppose, you shoot your own terrorists?

[cyncooper]

Thank you, as always, for setting up the thread. Excellent picture.

[Buckeroo]

The War on Terror is American government's creation. Bad foreign policy simultaneously with idiots believing American government is wholesome.

[MEG33]

I think the inmates got a weekend furlough...I noticed signs of this on another thread!

[TexKat]

*****TIME TAKEN TO SPEAK TO THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW*****

U.S. President George W. Bush prays before making remarks at a University of South Carolina Commencement Ceremony in Columbia, South Carolina, May 9, 2003. The president will continue onto the Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he and the first lady Laura Bush will spend a weekend at a private residence.

First lady Laura Bush holds her honorary degree from the School of Nursing and Health Studies during their commencement at Georgetown University Saturday, May 17, 2003, in Washington. Georgetown University presented the first lady with a Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa.

Vice President Dick Cheney,right, is greeted by the University of Missouri President Elson Floyd, left, as Cheney walks on stage prior to giving the keynote speech for the graduation of students from the university's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the school in Columbia, Mo., Sunday, May 18, 2003.

Debbie Norris, Mississippi College interim vice president for Academic Affairs, right, listens as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice left, delivers the Mississippi College law school commencement address Friday, May 16, 2003, in Jackson, Miss. Rice also received an honorary degree prior to watching a cousin from Tuscaloosa, Ala., receive a law degree.

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One word: Thorazine

[TexKat]

You're welcome, Kat. If you catch the name of the embed reporter who "wrote" the "Devil Dog Diary"...will you please tell me?

Here you go RC, Mr. Scurka's is one of the best documentaries I've seen so far.

Gary Scurka's Baghdad Bound:Devil Dogs Diarys - MSNBC National Geographic Explorer

[Aaron0617]

Iraqi men sell newspapers to motorists in the streets of Baghdad Sunday, May 18, 2003. Since the regime was overthrown in April, a throng of freewheeling newspapers, radio and television stations have sprung up to replace the turgid, sycophantic media outlets that characterized the country under Saddam.

Iraqis Now Enjoying Media Freedoms

[JLS]

What a great picture.

[Aaron0617]

A Kuwait Airways airplane is refuelled at Baghdad International Airport on Sunday, May 18, 2003.The aircraft is the first commercial airliner to land in Baghdad Airport after the US-led war on Iraq (news - web sites) and the first Kuwait Airways plane arriving to Iraq since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.

The flight carried humanitarian aid, a delegation from Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a team to investigate the fate of more than 600 Kuwaiti POW from the first Gulf War