***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 5 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 23 Mar 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - 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.

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To all who helped this get started, thank you!

Special thanks to An.American.Expatriate for staring the daily threads, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course, Belly Girl...

[austex]

wow - thats interesting.....done by iraqi tv no doubt - why can't we just bomb their tv station....
I'm sick of their propaganda

[Sacajaweau]

I'm just listening to these media war experts. They're making an awful lot of noise about the tragedies on our rear flank.

Do they realize how many would have been lost if we had engaged those cities?? They sure don't look at the big picture.

[Carolina]

Paul Wolfowitz with an Iraqi American on Beeb.

rtsp://rmlivev8e.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/news/now5.rm

Looks like a good interview!

[Anomaly in Illinois]

So, how many years does a freeper wear the 'newbie badge'? ;)

[don-o]

The wind has been like that all week.

Obs from CNN as of 3:12 am AST shows wind at 5 mph

[Diddle E. Squat]

Everything's up to date in Kansas City.

They've gone about as far as they can go.

[knak]

Is there any word on the pilots of the Apaches? I found this a while ago on yahoo, but don't know anything more:

HINDIYA, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq claimed it shot down two US Apache helicopters and boasted it could again parade captured and humiliated American troops on state television. An Iraqi officer speaking to reporters at the crash site said that the two Apaches had been shot down overnight while they were surveying the area around the southern city of Kerbala at low altitute.

Information Minister Mohamed Said Al-Sahhaf said that Iraq might show their crews on television later in a further blow to coalition forces, which launched the invasion to topple President Saddam Hussein on Thursday.

"A small number of peasants shot down two Apaches. We have shown the images of one of them on Iraqi television and we may show images of the pilots of the two aircraft or we may not show them," Sahhaf taunted.

[Carolina]

Q: What is your reaction to the Iraqis not being more celebratory?

Iraqi American: They are living in terror.

[Miss Marple]

Anyone who still belongs to the United Methodist Church (which I left last year), your money just paid for that Kumbaya ad which just showed on Fox.

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*sigh* HERE is the Belly Girl thread...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872283/posts

[TexKat]

I was real sorry to see Aziz was still had a pulse today!

And Mohammed Aldouri still walking his lying arse around in New York.

[austex]

can we send a cruise missile up his backside?

[austex]

I'm united methodist but conservative....as is Pres. Bush ;) He actually went to my church here in austin - Tarrytown UMC

[Miss Marple]

No kidding. Comb over has to go. Can't we pay some gangsta type to mug him?

[Tree of Liberty]

They showed the images. The Pentagon says they seem authentic.

[knak]

I sure hope so!

[Carolina]

Q: What do you say about more resistance than expected?

A: People who say that don't have any understanding of military preparations.

[Sacajaweau]

Aziz has a missile up his backside. It says "I own you, Saddam".

[ztiworoh]

Hmm just found out that one of the POWs from the Apache is from here in Orlando, named David Williams