***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 3-LIVE THREAD***

FreeRepublic - Day 2 ^ | 212 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate/null and void

[null and void]

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, thank you!

[Overtaxed]

Or maybe he went to NC State? Or maybe I'm confusing him with someone else? :)Or maybe I need more coffee!

[johnb838]

Bomb-cams, I wanna see the bomb-cams

[prairiebreeze]

"He has chosen unwisely and now he will lose BOTH!" I like this General.

Prairie

[GOPyouth]

Hopefully they will put these plasma-screens to good use and show us some hit-clips.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Two "cowboys"??? ~~ ;^D

[Timeout]

I've got S.A.&G. down, what's "D"?

[GOPyouth]

BOOOM! that blowed up real good.

[P.O.E.]

Tommy Franks: "We will use overwhelming force."

Translation: "Iraqi military - you ain't seen nothin' yet. Don't say we didn't warn you."

[Carolina]

Franks graduated from Univ. of Texas and his masters degree from Shippensburg Univ.

[steveegg]

Your wish is their command.

[quack]

Ask and ye shall receive. : )

[killjoy]

Somehow I knew I would wake up and be greeted by the belly shirt girl!

http://www.protestwarrior.com/images/protest_gallery/us/images/0065.jpg

[killjoy]

Sweet! They just showed gun camera footage from an A-10!

[Cboldt]

IIRC, that line was used by others, earlier. It's nice to have the administration speaking with a uniform voice. Some people (reporters) are really stupid (actually, have other intentions), and need the repetition.

[GOPyouth]

Discussing what was found at the ports. Found explosives that were "not meant for defenders."

[GOPyouth]

Nice shot of blowing the hell out of a boat.

[birdwoman]

Tommy Franks is from Midland, TX

[null and void]

I've been thinking. If Saddam was killed on the first night and the U.S. military knows and the Iraqi high command knows, then why would both of them want to keep it a secret?

Well the Iraqi high command would want to keep it a secret probably because if the Iraqi people knew that the brutal dictator was dead, why the people would probably riot in the streets (out of joy) and rip them to pieces. Hell, the Iraqi high command probably fears the U.S. military less than they fear their own people once they find out that Saddam is gone. So they continue to attempt to pretend Saddam is still alive so that they can surrender directly to U.S. troops and come under their protection.

The U.S. would want to keep this a secret because they also want to keep civil unrest in Baghdad to a minimum until they can secure the area. As well, they would prefer to negotiate a surrender with the Iraqi high command so that they can take them into custody and extract important information from them - such as where the WMD are located and other such information.

Anyway, those are the reasons I came up with regarding why both sides might want to keep a lid on this for now (if Saddam is indeed dead, as I believe that he may well be.)

Hmmmm. Makes sense to me!

[Overtaxed]

Yeah, I found that out. :) I think I'm confusing him with someone else whose name I can't remember.

[Carolina]

Ground move as far as the longest move in 1991 in 1/4 of the time.