Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1 - LIVE THREAD

20 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

[An.American.Expatriate]

This is a thread to collect all the breaking stories regarding the Libration of Iraq

[killjoy]

Two small flasks found in lost luggage depot at French rail station

[Peach]

Don't feel badly - I'm being pretty ugly about the French, too, forgetting of course that there are perfectly innocent people in France who don't deserve to have an act of terrorism committed against them. Still, if it has to happen...

[Quilla]

Thank God and thanks for the update. God bless our troops.

[Dog]

Heavy fire in Baghdad...

[Fledermaus]

I would imagine we are communicating with Iraqi soliders, telling them SnA is coming and will be 100 times worse than what we are doing now!

Then we'll do some SnA for a half hour or so and contact them yet again..."get it yet?" Then more if they don't surrender.

Sounds like a theory to me! ha ha

[ChadGore]

Re :Have they surrendered yet

SKYNEWS reporting a rainstorm forcasted for Paris tomarrow . . . not waisting any time, chiraq surrenders. ;)

[glock rocks]

BUFF's still parked in england per sky news.

[Fledermaus]

No NCAA for me this year. I didn't even bother to fill out my annual losing office pool!

[Dog]

Peach.....(dog looking stern)

[Wavyhill]

This just in--France surrenders unconditionally to the Ivory Coast. President Gbagbo is on a jet to Paris to take over administration later today.

[PhiKapMom]

I cannot imagine flying a helicopter in these sandstorms -- I don't want to be in a helicopter on a bright, sunny day! They scare me!

[Quilla]

I believe the first heli incident was prior to the first attack on Iraq, last evening. The second one just occurred and both have fabulous endings - no deaths, no captures, and no injuries as far as I know.

[P.O.E.]

The French will blame the start of war as catalyst for terror attack.

But of course. The millions of Muslims they deal with both in France and in their colonies are a peaceful people. /sarcasme

[colette_g]

Just a reminder - Blair's address to the UK on in little under 45 minutes

[Dog]

Pentagon : Goal to inflict Pschy damage on Iraqi leadership...

[Fledermaus]

Fox reports U.S. Treasury to seize all "non-diplomatic" Iraqi assets in the United States.

[Peach]

hanging my head low...

[Consort]

What would Marcel Marceau not say about this?

[Michael81Dus]

Yep. Targets are government buildings - problem is, that we can´t be sure wether a building is really used by the Iraqi leadership or not. They´re masters of hiding.

[Timeout]

Colonel on Fox went through a long elaborate analysis of the battle plan...poke 'em, then see if they surrender; poke 'em a little harder, see.....

Then he said "That, or we're just screwin' with 'em".