***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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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...

[hobson]

Oh, God, Lautenberg giving every liberal talking point, tax cuts for the rich, blah blah blah

I had to switch to MSNBC. I'd rather eat dirt than watch Lautenberg.

[RummyChick]

another praying pic

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030316/capt.1047825605.kuwait_us_military_iraq_xits102.jpg
US Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, pray during a Sunday Mass held by Roman Catholic priest Rev. Ken Medve of Allentown, Pa., in the Kuwait desert, near the Iraqi border on

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I love it when a man stares down the whole press corp. GW, Rummy, Pete Pace, Gen. Franks, Lt. Gen. John Abizaird...I suspect every man and woman in the service would give the press the stare tonight.

O.K.,#4312 is in the running.(^;

[cajungirl]

I have good news and bad news. At warprotester.com there is another pic of belly girl on the first page of their gallery,,the bad news is she is with a guy and he is cute. sorry all you lusters after the BG!!

[DollyCali]

I saw clooney in this .. not for clooney. I am a fan of the screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman

[ztiworoh]

I enjoy listening to their useless and tired rhetoric, just stregnthens my resolve to fight back with the truth

[spectr17]

"You won't have Saddam to kick around anymore."

*LOL*

Au revoir Sodomy

[Wavyhill]

I am deeply saddened that Bush struck Saddam first and wiped him off the face of the planet, instead of negotiating for 2 more years so that we could get another 9/11 to hang around his neck.

[don-o]

Batchelor and Alexander coming on on WABC. Those guys used to just give me the creeps, but lately I find myself looking forward.

Except Paul is ill - have a sub named Monica, of all things.

[Socratic]

Being rather new to FReep, could you please explain how "series" came to be common usage for "serious?"

[commish]

Does anyone else have the MSNBC webcam up .. I really am curious -- is the Camera just going bonkers or is that a major sandstorm going on?

[Anomaly in Illinois]

I am Freeper hear me roar.

[lavrenti]

Somebody needs to point out to the Democrats that God's waiting room is Sarasota, not the Senate cloakroom.

[TexKat]

I believe it was the second day I was watching CNN, the reporters had their camera trained on somewhere between 10 & 15 Iraqi soldiers laying a wire across the road in Mosul under the Saddam dam over the Tigris. Above there were 2 Kurdis guards attending the entrance of the dam and also there were 3 or more Iraquis dressed in business suits. I could not tell whether the 2 Kurds were afraid or just being friendly, but it looked as though they were not in control. However CNN reporter left and I never heard anymore about it. Until later that day and either read about or heard about the threat to blow up a dam.

[glock rocks]

vey good question.

[spectr17]

I'm looking forward to Monica Beret Boy myself, the Iraqi Info Minister

[cajungirl]

MSNBC was reporting from Jordan and it was raining!

[RummyChick]

this pic is funny for some reason to me

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030324/i/1048548874.4093878345.jpg


As a police officer stands guard on a police line used to cordon-off anti-war
protesters, a members of the anti-war group 'Yoga for Peace' prays before her
arrest for blocking the entrance to the Transamerica Building in downtown
San Francisco as a protest against the war on Iraq (news - web sites), March
24, 2003. Demonstrators were specifically targeting the Carlyle Group, one of
the nation's biggest defense contractors, who have offices in the building.

[Fledermaus]

The picture CNN just had up didn't show a storm, pretty clear

[Timeout]

...threatening to use gas

I went to Yahoo weather and checked out the wind direction forecast.

Tonight winds SE, 20-30 mph. Tomorrow winds SE to SW, 15-25 mph. And then, tomorrow night winds shift to WNW, 15-25 mph.

Front what has been reported about our point of attack, seems like tomorrow night would be a good time to cross that "imaginary red line".