***Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 4 JUN 03/Day 77 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere TexKat goes, or Ragtime Cowgirl transcribes... | 4 JUN 03 | null and void

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Operation Infinite Freedom

Link to the previous thread

Good Morning.

Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room.

It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.

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"If there is anyone in the world today who doubts the seriousness of the Bush Doctrine, I would urge that person to consider the fate of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq," - Vice President Richard Cheney

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Let FReepdom Ping!

[DollyCali]

Pong ?

[DollyCali]

Posted to a few at the 'end' of the former thread. to tired & lazy to redo..

Okay, Nully, is your heart back in synch? Gabrielle is a lovely gal....brains and all.. *g*

[DollyCali]

Okay, I realize I am talking to myself.. but the pix you chose really resonated with me.. the RED sea....

Lots of history there..

Lots of symbolism.

Wonderful shot.

THANK YOU !!!!

Another thought.. there will be much competition this year for pulitzer in photography, no?

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OK, Let FReepdom ping-pong...

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Another thought.. there will be much competition this year for pulitzer in photography, no?

It looks like it's headed that way...

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No synching feeling here...

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OK, I'll repost one:

To: Prime Rib

welcome to the land of lovely women, hunky men, giant hearts and tantalizing minds...

Who could ask for more?

160 posted on 06/03/2003 9:17 PM PDT by DollyCali (Authenticity: To have Arrived !)

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and funkle!

[DollyCali]

GREAT NULLY!


ok..LETS FIND 2 MORE FOR BRIDGE?

[DollyCali]

AFPhys is a bridge player ... but missing him lately

[DollyCali]

Night Nully...... It has been a long day beginning with a paranormal "experience" of major proportions at 5 AM........ wont give details now because someone would prolly have my account dropped.

But it was scary (and I am pretty tough, even w/this stuff) and I admit to being quite shaken (not stirred)......

maybe someday will share, at the right time.

Our world & the world we don't see, is very complex.....

Thanks to you & all for the sharing of information & sharing of your hearts.

/d

[TexKat]

Thanks nully for the new thread!!!

Thanks Prime Rib for the info on the ban on burning U.S. Flag. I am happy to hear that.

[TexKat]

Chirac's Show, Bush's Agenda (washingtonpost.com)

EVIAN, France, June 3 -- From the beginning, this Group of Eight summit of world leaders had been heavily scripted to showcase French President Jacques Chirac as the rich world's best advocate for the concerns of poor, developing countries.

Chirac loaded the agenda with his favored topics -- aid to Africa, famine relief, more funding for fighting AIDS and easier access for poor countries to cheap drugs. He developed a proposal to suspend export subsidies on European farm products sent to Africa on the grounds that they hurt farmers there. And for the first time he invited leaders of 11 other countries to sit around the table, including the presidents of South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria and Algeria, representing the developing world.

[TexKat]

Texan to Lead Forces in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)

BAGHDAD -- Maj. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who is about to become the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, began life on the poor side of a small town in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas.

"We lived on welfare, in a single-parent home" in Rio Grande City, he recalled in a recent interview in his temporary office here in an old airport warehouse. Sanchez, 52, did not come from a military family, but said he decided in eighth grade that he would become a soldier. "I saw that as a means of escaping poverty."

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I hear you never sleep and are the expert on posting news.

LOL, I get about 5 or 6 hours of sleep per night or day, whenever my eyelids refuse to remain open. And its a lot more hours than what I was getting mid April and early May. I am really a news addict, I watch Fox News until 10 p.m., then remote control back & forth between MSNBC and CNN to get everyones take and delivery on the news of the day. I guess I'm afraid I am going to miss something.

My timing has been off most of the year. But pretty soon I will be back to the old routine, bed at 10 p.m., no later than midnight and up and at um at 6 a.m. like the normal people. At the present I'm abnormal.

[TexKat]

Lawmakers say they are trying to protect decency

Democracy on the line in tussle between Pakistan's president and Islamic hard-liners

A standoff between Pakistan's pro-American president and anti-American Islamic hard-liners has paralyzed parliament and threatened this country's return to democracy. Now the dispute may be coming to a head, and the outcome is not likely to sit well with Washington.

The religious hard-liners are demanding that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf -- a military ruler who seized power in a 1999 coup -- give up his job as army chief and forfeit powers that allow him to sack parliament and remove the prime minister as he sees fit.