***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 11 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 30 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...

[glock rocks]

amazing as it might seem, the best documentation of atrocities i have seen to date on tv is currently running on the Discovery Time channel on satellite (it used to be called Discovery Civilization).

it's done in conjunction with the old gay lady. running round the clock, with only moderate bias considering the source. (they are still in denial, but less outright lying than you'd expect.)

[Kadric]

The Liberal Media have a problem. They are trying to cover the war in any way they can against the Administration. The Arabic media is saying they are lying. The left is saying they are lying. The right and most of the center knows they are lying. In the meantime the reports from the imbedded reporters are not matching up with what the talking heads are saying. They see themselves as going the way of the UN in the face of the internet. Their news shows are quickly becoming quite exposed as opinionated talk shows not news.

[Daniel Ramsey]

i wonder if an underground fuel line was deliberately targeted? Run them out of fuel?

[johniegrad]

What link are you all looking at? I can't see much through the MSNBC2 bagcam.

[Green]

I'm watching a live cam view on fox news right now.

[glock rocks]

fox news channel

[Cboldt]

the best documentation of atrocities i have seen to date on tv is currently running on the Discovery Time channel

Oh, the information is out there. But the mention by a reporter, wondering why the news isn't reported more, illuminates a failure on the media's part. If anything, the media will project it's own failure as being a failure of a GOP administration; more likely, they will drop the subject. The comment was a time-filler by the reporter, nothing more.

[Miss Marple]

I do not use that term, nor have I ever. Therefore, please address your criticisms to someone else. And I would welcome a suggestion on a deragatory name for Saddam's henchmen. Thank you.

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He also said in Basara the townspeople destroyed 3 tanks. Isn't CNN going to do a follow up on any of this?

Not until they've finished their french champagne...

[oceanview]

the camera is panning now, but all the cable stations had it. fox just went back onto it (11:31AM EST)

[johniegrad]

Can't get to it. The old ball-'n-chain is watching Lifetime for Women. ROFL. Now I suppose I'll be chastised for my use of that term.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Now its being commented it looks like a pair of in-city ammo dumps cooking off, another thought...what if we hit a chemical dump?

[Green]

well that depends...did you mean it in a derogatory way? < g >

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This is all going to be very interesting as it all comes out after the war is over.

Fascinating link. Thanks. Did you see Shep's segment w/ Rick Leventhal last night? Viewers love the embeds! Terry Moran is not the most popular boy in school anymore. (^:

From the same link - United Way is divided over Susan Sarandon. This American would like to know why the United Way was ever united for Susan Sarandon. AP, Reuters...hmm?

[Socratic]

What term? "Lifetime for Women?"

[Consort]

The Liberal media is being edged out by the Socialist media, just like the Liberals are a shrinking segment of a Democrat Party that was taken over by the Socialists. Liberals no longer have a party of their own. At the same time, the Conservative media is growing.

[glock rocks]

smackdown!

[txradioguy]

Rummy talking w/ Tony Snow and Brit Hume now. Remember folks when you hear the lamestream talking heads start asking ab out us "bogging down".....and the Coalition is meeting "stiff resistance" we've moved farther and faster in 9 days than any army unit before and have only incurred 35 KIA's and a handful of POW's in the process. Go look at your history of what happened in the first 9 days of the U.S. involvement in Korea (Task Force Smith), Vietnam (Ia Drang Valley) or what happened to us at the Kaserine Pass in WW II. We are neither "bogging down" nor are we meeting the type of "stiff resistance" the media would have you believe.

[GOPyouth]

Fire! Fire! Fire!

[johniegrad]

Really torques me off when she watches that stuff. Puts men in a bad light. I told her that if I ever found her watching again I would beat the holy you-know-what out of her. Same goes for my mistress.