*** Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 15 - Live Thread ***

Multiple ^ | April 3rd, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked thier lives to rescue her!

Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo	Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo

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Please have mercy on us dial up limited FReepers! Limit the big graphics, post links instead. A brief description of what the graphic is would help: To all who helped this get started, thank you! Special thanks to null and void for keeping these threads running on the weekends, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course,...

[knak]

that's ok, I laugh about it now too. But he's still a jerk!

[cajungirl]

OH, that was clever!! Is the poor girl deaf???

[retrokitten]

I think it's kind of like that scene in "Independence Day" with all those idiots on the roof partying and holding signs ("Stop and Party!") when the aliens were coming to blow them up.

[valleygal]

A shocker coming from Blitzer and NYT!

[Carolina]

Sky Banner: US Forces found tunnel system at SH airport.

[knak]

interesting, hope they tell more

[AFPhys]

How many in an Iraqi division? and who was the guy on the tarmac if it was being defended. This is truly the "fog of war"

Classically, a "division" is about 10,000. In most armies, it is pretty safe to figure out about that many. For our military, it is reasonable also, but the type of division is pertinent to know - infantry, armored, etc. If you know the type of division in the US, you can get a real good idea. I believe an Iraqi "division" was scheduled to be a fair bit larger than 10,000.

"Element of a division" is just some part of it - it could be only a couple hundred or nearly the whole division.

Given the massive attrition which has been inflicted on these Iraqi forces, I suspect that there are far less than 10,000 around the airport. One of the major divisions was essentially deployed in that area, though, and may be fairly intact.

[Mo1]

MY mom threatened us with the Dreaded "I'll drop you off at Father Baker's" .. Large Catholic Orphanage in Buffalo.

Yep we heard the Orphanage too .. worked till we were about 10 yrs old .. after that we knew she'd never do becuase of what the neighbors would think

I still remember having to shut all the windows when she would yell at us .. She never hit us but OH Man did that women have a set of lungs on her .. LOL

[bvw]

Good one.

[epluribus_2]

Is it just me or is this a very slow news day. Guess another day in the Quagmire just doesn't punch up the newsrooms the way it used to. And with only a few days left in the Quagmire, they had better get going.

[Air Force Born]

I guess you could say we are going through the Rep.Guard like Grant took Richmind. Lots of superficial similarities

[prairiebreeze]

There's a big political crisis brewing in Europe. Called the EU. MadIvan posted this yesterday. Really disturbing.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/883299/posts

Prairie

[Mo1]

FOFL ... Oh My

[cajungirl]

Haha,,the quagmire may be shorter than they think,,sort of like, well, a teeny mud spot. And the retreat isn't going too well either what with the pesky cheering enemy holding us up.

[Mo1]

Sky Banner: US Forces found tunnel system at SH airport.

Did they say where it leads to?

[AFPhys]

I see some benefit in getting along with Turkey, Russia and China, but Germany and France can't hurt us or help us much it seems.

I unequivocally, fully second your observation.

[cajungirl]

Okay Dude,,lets not bring up the late unpleasantness as we in the south call it. No more War between the STates comments.

[glennaro]

I've got the CBS cam link up and running. You're right, you can't see much except the faint outline of a palm tree or two in the lower right and the headlights of an occasional passing vehicle. But the sound works fine. If you turn it up you can hear the vehicles go by and an occasional horn or explosion in the distance.

The camera I'm accessing with a DSL connection is at: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/video_display_new.html?clip=LiveWebCast

[Jaded]

This 'un

rtsp://193.159.246.23:554/farm/*/encoder/ntv/livecam_300_new.rm

you can hear all kinds of chatter. some of it is in the President's own English.

[valleygal]

I knew what you meant. :) I was just being humorous. I realize they have put up a fight but they have a habit of "big talk" as in the '91 "Mother of All Battles".