***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 8 - LIVE THREAD***

Various | 3/27/2003 | Me

[Centurion2000]

Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

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[Air Force Born]

Think Korea, Vietnam. Wait till you are whipped, then get an outside agent to arange a cease-fire. Then re-arm and continue to terrorize the population. Glad to hear that so far we aren't considering it.

[null and void]

From what I gather, SanDiegoConservative was banned last night. Looks like we had a full blown flame war about how wonderful San Diego is/isn't.

For the record I LIKE San Diego...

[RummyChick]

fnc has a clip of one of our tanks on fire but no one hurt in side..i am sure they will replay it

[ken5050]

I wonder who's really in charge in Bagdad now...I'd have expected to see Saddam's sons out in crowd shots, and more of Saddam himself...if the decapitation action seriously impacted all of them, then indeed, no one may really be in charge..it's like a bunch of headless chickens....it may complicate efforts to cause mass capitulation...

[fml]

You would also be terrified if Saddam was your leader. The lesser of two evils for a short time.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Place holder for later....

Gotta take the long ride home...

Back around 15:00 EST

God Speed

[ken5050]

Did you see American in Toyko's thread this morning?

[GOPyouth]

LOL he's gone? I know night before last there was a SD discussion. Somebody hopped on the thread and said how he/she hated San Diego b/c there are too many Mexicans here. Me, SDconservative, and Carne Asada and a couple others defended this place. :)

[Carolina]

Why would there be a ceasefire -- is it some media campaign for one or something?

The new trial balloon.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A British Army Challenger II tank crushes a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) at a former military training ground outside the southern city of Basra, March 27, 2003. British troops battling to take Basra, Iraq (news - web sites)'s second city, have taken over the local radio and television stations, Sky television news said on Thursday. REUTERS/Chris Helgren - Mar 27 11:10 AM ET

[ken5050]

IT literally "rained" mud...you had all the fine sand suspended in the air from the sandstorm...it takes a while to settle out...then the rains came....instant mud...

[retrokitten]

Is this the same thing?

[BulletBobCo]

No one needs to ever use syrup of Ipecac again.

You're assuming CNN will stay in business.

As long as there are liberals, there will be a CNN.

[CurlyBill]

Why would there be a ceasefire -- is it some media campaign for one or something?

I heard some report a day or two ago about a number of Arab countries trying to broker a cease fire. I imagine that they were probably again going to try to convince Saddam Hussein to go into exile. To me it sounded all too similar to the trick cease fire we fell for at Tora Bora.

[Cboldt]

I believe that SnA has been misunderstood by the media.

I found it again, a link to the "author" of the Shock and Awe phrase. In general, the term relates to speed of the opponent, the ability of the opponent to "totally change your position" much faster than you thought possible.

Achieving Rapid Dominance, by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade

Chapter "Shock and Awe"

[RummyChick]

CABLE NEWS RACE
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2003

O'REILLY 5.2 [RATING]
HANNITY/COLMES 4.2
GRETA 4.2
LARRY KING 4.0
CNN [8 PM] 3.7
AARON BROWN 3.7
MSNBC [10 PM] 2.9
MSNBC [9 PM] 2.9
MSNBC [8 PM] 2.0

[Peach]

That 5,000/month who die in Iraq from lack of food and improper medical attention is the one I'm using in my letter to the editor and the one used in the Washington Post and by George Will. Two thirds of those are thought to be children under 5. It's barbaric.

Sweet that the appeasers care that we left Kyoto on the table but don't care about the kids dying.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Hey nully, there was a bit of that here as well, but nothing amounting to a flame war (minor skirmish perhaps!!). I too heard that SDC was banned, but not word from the MODS yet on the posts - they were not offensive - just OT

[Mo1]

They need a caption thingy so we can figure out what David Bloom is saying and who he is talking about .. LOL

[RummyChick]

not sure..it seemed it was lighter out. I wasn't watching what happened. The clip may have shown it actually being hit.