***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.

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[Tree of Liberty]

Yes, the guy with the thick, slicked back hair.

[texxie]

well hello MrC how are you tonight?

[Tree of Liberty]

Iraqi National Congress

[r9etb]

CBS Baghdad Cam just went black.

I noticed that.

Sort of off topic, I happened to get a glance of a very long truck with a canvas-covered cargo passing by the cam. Looked military -- missile, perhaps?

[Mr.Crimson]

Cool...I just caught the tail end of it

[texxie]

ahhh ok I had them cornfused with the other group

wonder what that means then?

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox reported the other day that, while Congress has appropriated the money, and the President wants them funded, some bureaucrat at the State Dept. hasn't cut the check. So, I don't know what their current status is.

[MEG33]

Yea? but what have McCaffrey and Hackworth said about it.!

[spectr17]

Watching air war stuff on CNN. HC130 Lots going on in the air right now that we don't see.

We won't be seeing much of those air ops which is a good thing (OPSEC). Most of the daring deeds of SPECOPS will never be made public either.

[Centurion2000]

The Iraqi National Congress is the group the U.S. govn't wants to act as an interim authority

NOPE ..... treat the Iraqis like we treated the Japanese .... nothing less will do.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A fairy tale begins with, "Once upon a time, ..."

A war story begins with,

"... and this no sh*t. I was sittin' with --- one day and he ..."

[texxie]

lol that's a good one

[Consort]

Didn't work, but it was worth a try. Thanks.

[Tree of Liberty]

Even in Japan, there was a bureaucracy made up of locals that carried out MacArthur's policies.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox - Rick Levanthal back on live

[spectr17]

CNN, Art Harris embed with 2nd Marines in contact with enemy on way to An Nasiriyah. Gunships pounding enemy positions.

[Dolphy]

Who is this guy on FNC? He says that the coalition is Anglo American, not brown people, not Muslims and that we don't understand Iraqi nationalism. Apparently, according to him, Iraqis blame America for half their trouble and Britain for the other half.

[Centurion2000]

A war story begins with,

"... and this no sh*t. I was sittin' with --- one day and he ..."

Close ... the correct introductory quote is ... "and this ain't no sh*t .... "

Sea stories rock :)

[Nik Naym]

You get the idea.

A fairy tale begins with "once upon a time"

A war story begins with "no sh1t, this really happened!"

Nik

[CheneyChick]

Hang in there. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. We know who is on our side.

CC