***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!

[MEG33]

It was on ABC web page.

[Diddle E. Squat]

CNN reporter talking about many peasants waving scarves and white flags. Reinforcing the liberation theme. Judas Woodruff just reached for another valium...

[SW6906]

good one!

[knak]

welcome to FR

[cactusSharp]

it's actually the size of Texas but that sound bite would let the media buttholes call it Dubya's War

[Dolphy]

I am kind of laughing as I watch FNC reporting, from the Pentagon, that Iraqi Command and Control is crumbling. Have they had any evidence that it was operating since this thing started:)

[rolling_stone]

Well to be a monday morning quarterback, if we had followed up with a few more cruise missles about 20 minutes after the first ones, there might have been no one left to carry a stretcher...I remember the first news conference when the two frantic clowns said something about an assasination, which at the time I thought was telling...

[Mo1]

Judas Woodruff just reached for another valium...

I hope she has something strong to wash them down

[slimer]

Saddam Hussein phoned President George W. Bush.

"I had a dream about the United States," he said. "I could see the whole country, and over every building and home was a banner," said Saddam.

"What was on the banner?" asked Mr. Bush.

"LONG LIVE SADDAM!" answered the dictator.

"I'm so glad that you called," said President Bush, "because I too had a dream. In my dream, I saw Iraq and it was more beautiful than ever; totally rebuilt with many tall, gleaming office buildings, large residential subdivisions with swimming pools in every yard; and over every building and home was a big, beautiful banner."

"What did the banner say?" asked Saddam.

"I don't know," answered President Bush, "I can't read Hebrew."

[Diddle E. Squat]

US believes they have pictures of SH being carried off on the stretcher, but you raise a good point.

[RummyChick]

i think we have understood finally that it was on 3/19/ the thing I still didn't hear for sure was if the panic digging was before saddam came out on a stretcher. He could have been dead on that stretcher. I wonder if they have some kind of heat detecting thing from the satellite that could tell if he was dead

[Cboldt]

Moving lots of armor. Figure 5 MPH, 10 MPH TOPS.

[ztiworoh]

If Saddam is dead, how much you wanna bet some liberal clains Bush violated the Exec. Order against assasinations of heads of state....

[SoldiersGirl]

http://globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1996/shock-n-awe_index.html


Interesting, I wasn't aware that the term Shock and Awe came from a book

[austex]

hehheh -rock on

[knak]

cute

[RummyChick]

yes I think they will because Judge napalatano on fnc said an argument could be made that it was illegal since war had not been declared ..or something like that

[SW6906]

Man, that's a good one! I gotta pass that on!

Reminds me of the joke about the Irish pub habitants who call off a war with Iraq because there's no way they can handle 2 million POWs....

[Cboldt]

It [French involvement with surrender negotiations] was on ABC web page

I still hope its BS.