***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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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...

[ninenot]

The use of the "raghead" term should be reserved for those who are actively opposing the US action AND who are not ignorant. Ignorance IS an excuse. Those who oppose our action and know WHY we're in there (not to mention those who are shooting at US troops) are, at the very BEST, "ragheads."

[TheExploited]

Keep it up

[Ramius]

Wow! Amphibious submarines?

In one of those pictures of potholes in Baghdad... I could swear I see a periscope coming up through there. :-)

[Dog]

Shhhhhh coded message......shhhhh!

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Got that...

[POGIFFMOO]

Spies can have a sense of humor too, ya know.

[Cboldt]

Wow! Amphibious submarines?

Submarines with detachable flying exploding appendages.

[ninenot]

I heard today that two reporters who broadcast something the Bag-boys didn't like were arrested.Did they get to leave Iraq with their tongues intact???

[aloysius89]

Beautiful, just beautiful.
That Marine is making allies.

[Cboldt]

I think it was an MSNBC piece about 20 minutes ago, discussion related to sucide/car bombers and changes to the rules of engagement. The rules are if the occupants of a car do not respond to a "turn around" order within 5 seconds, the car is destroyed, regardless of the occupants (men, women, children, white-flags, etc.). The report went on to say that the good Iraqis were adapting to this rule very rapidly.

[Dog]

Get Fox on they have footage of a B-52 bomber carpet bombing a Iraqi frontline position up north....

[Straight Vermonter]

I've had similar thoughts but I would like to hear your theory.

[pitinkie]

CBS CAM back up.

[ChadGore]

The following image from the news wires on 2003-03-30

The 2 glowing glowing balls on the right side of the picture are bombed Iraqi SAM missles "cooking off" and Iraqi SAMS landing back into the city (follow the smoke trail).

More info :http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/880024/posts

[Dog]

Link please..

[muslims=borg]

Arn't the Rem 700's modified with McMillan parts ?

[Timeout]

"Pause"-talk was created in Washington by the chattering intelligensia who felt left out of the loop.

Here's how I see it. CENTCOM saw the forecast for that sandstorm blowing in last week. They decided it was time to hit the road before we got socked-in down in the Kuwaiti desert. Instead, they unleashed several armorned units and told them to skeedaddle to their pre-planned positions before the storm hit. Thus the early footage of long armored caravans screaming across the desert.

Some units had to drive thru the storm for a day, but by the 2nd day they were all settled in for the rest of the storm. Logistical support units, unfortunately, had to start their caravans in the midst of the storm.

Now, as the dark of the moon approaches, all are catching up and finalizing their positions, while air strikes prepare the battlefield for what's to come.

All you military vets out there: Doesn't this make as much sense as the "pause" theory?

[Green]

LOL..watching fox news - Jonathon Hunt says that the Brit Captain that has the Iraqi General in custoday is "politely requesting" that the general cooperate with them by giving them info on what is going on in Basra

[Consort]

...but I would like to hear your theory.

On which post?

[Straight Vermonter]

Your theory about why we wanted the deception that was going on in Turkey.

[ninenot]

Good insight.

Using the blabbermouth press to dis-inform the enemy is a time-honored tradition.

Of course, the Pentagon ALSO thunk up the idea of using "embeds" so that American viewers would get the REAL story---as opposed to the disinformation.

That line about S&A was a corker--it DID make SH think that we'd announce our arrival just like Desert Storm. Also fooled a lot of Americans...that's OK. SH took the bait.