***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!

[July 4th]

If they've made it across the river, things should speed up a bit. They'll no longer have the cover they had while on the west/southwest side of it.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"We have found no caches of WMDs to date." TV generation....instant gratification. Every journalist covering a war should be required to go without food, sleep, showers at random times, learn to handle a gun, see a brutal death close up, understand the Constitution, talk to at least a hundred veterans who have fought, waited, lost a comrade, left family behind, risked their lives.

[BulletBobCo]

Crap..Rita Crosby is on.

[Cboldt]

The ability to cross the river has been ours (at An Nasiriyah) for 12-16-24 hours.

[glock rocks]

small worlds? I saw a geneaology tree in Salt Lake City at the LDS that shows, from one guy, came Churchill, Nixon, Ford (under his real name) and GW Bush. It's wild!

you can't be serious!

who's the common ancestor?

[Peach]

This is almost more than I can stand to hear re what they're saying over at DU. WTC - civilians - no notice. Iraq - leadership targeted - lots of notice (over a year, actually). Now I need to rinse the bad taste out of my mouth.

[Carolina]

Rita Crosby is on.

Better than the BBC Commie babe masquerading as a journalist that I'm watching.

[justshe]

Well....at least we can get past the shallowness of critiquing her outfit....she's gone now.

I agree, it was NOT what I would have chosen. Luckily, we gave credit to the intelligence within, and didn't get too hung up on negating her words due to her fashion sense.

[Fledermaus]

I knew someone would ask...I don't remember. I might have it written down somewhere on in some literature.

Just got back from vacation one day before start of war...haven't really unpacked yet!

[lorrainer]

Crap..Rita Crosby is on.

Maybe she'll have some sssspecial information from her ssssspecial ssssssourcessssss....

[Maigrey]

As I said on a previous thread, I think that if a woman is qualified to go out and do the job, so be it. If she isn't, then she shouldn't. No PC to it.

I am also southern, so I do think that women shouldn't be in harm's way. (that's what men are for) If there is a need, and they can do the job, then they should also understand the risks that they could be captured or killed. No life is more important than anyone else out there.

A woman who knows the danger and proceeds is a treasure only a madman would spurn.

If a woman wants to help with the war effort, we should harness this enthusiasm and find a use for them, not spurn their desire.

[DonnerT]

Noah.

[ez]

I can feel my brain atrophy...

If you spend much more time at Free Republic, you will learn not to leave yourself open like this...

[July 4th]

who's the common ancestor?

I think GW and Winston Churchill go back to a Spencer - the same line of Spencers that Lady Di was part of.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

FN - Steve Centanni w/ Navy SEALS in Persian Gulf:

 

Follow-up mission to Thurs. nights' securing the oil terminals.

 

"...approaching Iraqi waters... in a Mark 5...looking for any suspicious vessels that might be carrying mines.

 

"We want to clear these waterways and make them safe for shipping."

 

"Looking for anybody who might be escaping from Iraq."  Found two men on an old wreck this morning waving white flags...surrendered this morning.

 

"Near the town of Umm Kasar (sp)....burning oil, 4 to 5 miles away...still contested. Not totally within our control."

[Maigrey]

I dunno. I had to do a light speed run to the grocery store. (Must have pop tarts and milk.)

[SoDak]

You won't find many people in SD this week that would disagree that Dasshole is a Jack___. I sure wouldn't.

[smokeyjon]

"you will learn not to leave yourself open like this..."

The jacket made me do it.

[Carolina]

I appreciate her tough style. She's a far cry from Clintonoid Dee Dee Myers.

[July 4th]

Bingo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2263945.stm

No mention of Nixon and Ford. Only GW, Churchill, and some royals.