***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 2-LIVE THREAD***

21 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

[An.American.Expatriate]

Good Morning.

This is the continuation Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1- 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.

To all who helped this get started yesterday, thank you!

[Cboldt]

I think your plan was heard, and has been adopted.

[retrokitten]

someone said it yesterday, it's wartime- spelling doesn't matter! (I'm taking full advantage!)

[theophilusscribe]

I'm looking through yahoo—though, you've probably already looked there, I realize. :o)

Iraqi soldiers standing together with their arms raised are silhouetted in a sky covered with black smoke as they surrender to U.S. Marines from the15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in southern Iraq (news - web sites) Friday, March 21, 2003. The cause of black smoke is not known. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

[Cboldt]

Please no O'Reilly for straight news -- I'm begging!

[Timeout]

Diapers. Hmmmm. E-mail that to Rummy. He's just crazy enough to do it!

Don't you love the way the administration let him broadcast that "loose cannon", out-of-control image?!

[Dog]

Word has it that 120 cruise missiles were used in that first raid... Media is saying another 200 or so are sloted to be used in Round II..

[knak]

really? dang I missed it

[Jorge]

Jorge you have to watch the full video clip....it was a sight to see.

I just saw some good video on CNN but Judy is interviewing some moron talking about ways the US can still lose and Saddam can win this war. I hate CNN.

[Lauratealeaf]

The FemiNazi's can rant all they want. If a woman wants to be on the front lines, she has to be as physically strong as a man. And she can't cry if things get too hard for her either.

That is so true. When my son was at West Point during Camp Buckner he had to help carry the equipment for a female cadet because she was not strong enough to. Even with her ineptness she got the "A" because they had to give out "A"s to a certain amount of females. Diversity of grades don't you know.

Our military has to be tough and strong and when they have to wait on the women it can cause horrible consequences.

They've even feminized Spiderman!

[headsonpikes]

"The cause of black smoke is not known."

That would be Tommy Daschle's presidential aspirations.

[justshe]

WELL!

I hope you got on the phone and called his Commander and said, "This is Eric's Mama, and *I* want to know what is happening with my son!"

Seriously.....have watched the progression from bootcamp to now of Eric (via your posts)....and I pray for his safety and his safe return. I also pray for you and the rest of your family that you weather this trial and find some semblance of peace until he returns.

But.....BUT!!!!!! You let me know if you want me to call his Commander! I'm ready! I'm there for you, ohio!!!!!!

[Fledermaus]

Tommy boy can whine about "failed dimplomacy" all he wants. What we have here is SUCCESSFUL FOREIGN POLICY!

Now the Dems have to attack and trash the economy, it's their only game plan left!

[RummyChick]

here is a dancing one

been looking through yahoo for the woman with the soldier. someone said Neil Boortz saw it so I have no idea where it is

[Fledermaus]

Seeing that picture reminds me that it's Disco on next American Idol! he he

[GraniteStateConservative]

It was reported in an AP story. I bet he was just talking about the incident from the story.

[theophilusscribe]

Good work, brave soldiers!

An F/A-18C Hornet returns to the USS Kitty Hawk in northern Gulf waters following a mission over Iraq (news - web sites)(AFP/Leila Gorchev)

U.S. Marines with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division watch the perimeter after taking the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions in a gun battle near Az Bayer, Iraq (news - web sites) on Friday, March 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

[ztiworoh]

Thanks, Im still involved, Im in high school (Senior year though, thank god) but Im an intern for my local congressman, Ric Keller, in the district office, so I stay somewhat involved. Heading to St. Joseph's University for a poli-sci degree next fall though...

[GraniteStateConservative]

Where is that reported? Usually they keep the theme under wraps.

[Nam Vet]

Welcome to FR.

My, my there are a lot of newbies on these last few days. The more the merrier.

Nam Vet

[Fledermaus]

Report on Fox.com about "peace" protestors. Hopy Rummy drops one on them!!!

TAOS, N.M. — War protesters trashed the grounds around a northern New Mexico home owned by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, placing "No War" stickers and throwing children's clothes around the property, authorities say.

No arrests were made during the demonstration Thursday, said Lt. Eddie Martinez of the Taos County Sheriff's Department.

The protesters were among 400 to 500 who began demonstrating at Taos Plaza and marched along U.S. 64 to two Rumsfeld properties at El Prado, a couple of miles northwest of Taos, Martinez said.

"They got onto his property, and that would be trespassing," he said. "There's issues and laws they need to understand. If their choice is a peace demonstration, then they should keep the peace."

Police and neighbors blocked the entrance to one of Rumsfeld's properties. Demonstrators then walked more than a mile to a dairy farm, also owned by Rumsfeld, where about a dozen jumped a fence.

They placed the "No War" stickers and other signs on the farm's house and grounds, said Mariel Nanasi, a protest organizer.

"They pulled the American flag off the garage door and wrapped it around the front door of his residence. They put up banners and tossed children's clothing around the yard," Martinez said.

The Associated Press left a telephone message Friday with Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant secretary of defense in Washington, D.C., seeking comment.

Protesters impeded traffic during the march along U.S. 64, Martinez said.

"Obviously, they get to protest because this is a free country, but stay as far to the right as you can to the shoulders of the road if you are going to march," Martinez said.

Taos is an art community known for its Hispanic and Pueblo Indian traditions mixed with a bohemian lifestyle. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the east overlook the town's narrow streets, which are lined with adobe homes and galleries surrounded by a sagebrush-dotted high desert.

Rumsfeld's 2001 financial disclosure statement showed he owned six homes in northern New Mexico, including properties in the Santa Fe, Mora and Las Vegas areas.

Rumsfeld has told friends he fell in love with New Mexico as a boy while visiting the Boy Scouts' Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron in northeastern New Mexico.