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

Multiple ^ | April 3rd, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

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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,...

[eyespysomething]

British Marines play Iraqis in Soccer Match

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/884288/posts

[CurlyBill]

Just too damn quiet in Baghdad!

[Air Force Born]

Yeah, see what he started? An off-topic discussion.

[Carolina]

News from southern Iraq: Iraqis loot Ali's palace

A palace that housed the man dubbed Chemical Ali for his role in gas attacks on northern Iraq during the offensive against the Kurds in 1987 has been looted by the people he used to govern.

[AppyPappy]

Hey, quit whining about his whining

The Iraqis stomped some Brits in a soccer match.

[Redcloak]

I thought that I heard Vin Scully a while ago.

[Catspaw]

You betcha. Very stealthy, too. Of course, if he wants the thread to be All About Him, I doubt if he's succeeded. From this point on, I'm ignoring him.

[Carolina]

Major Garrett just reported we now have 9,000 EPW...double yesterday's total!

The newsies are skeptical. They want proof, video.

[Cboldt]

The road into Baghdad is too easy. Now comes the bunching up and chems.

Could be that "now comes the bunching up." But if that was the plan, it would occur whether we took 2 weeks to get to Baghdad, or 2 months.

As for "too easy," that's a perception we have based on news reports and not being there. My take it that this has been a huge, difficult effort, with some conflicting objectives, and that the coalition has done a very good job so far. I trust the military leadership to continue to exercise good judgement.

[Catspaw]

Hey, quit whining about his whining

LOL!

[hawkaw]

Now Sky guy with 3rd is trying to say that American military commanders expected the Iraqi regime ot fall by the time they got to the Airport.

What an idiot.

hawk

[Air Force Born]

With ya 'paw

[rumrunner]

What link are you using to get skytv? I haven't been successful all day in logging in.

[DonnerT]

Me too. I find myself opening a prayer when I wake and forgetting to close it before I fall asleep.

[Bryan24]

Thanks for the civil response.

I didn't mean to offend with the chit-chat remark. I love disussions where you can go off on a tangent. It makes for great conversation.

I view this thread more as the switching back and forth between 2 TV channels trying to hear as much as possible. When that is going on, I don't talk or discuss, I try to listen as much as possible and keep the remarks directly related to what has just been said.

Think of it as watching 2 football games and after a food commercial, your wife and mother-in-law start trying to discuss the grocery list with each other across the room.

Personal preference, to some extent, I guess. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Back to news monitoring.

[gop212]

Great Pics. Doubt you'll see this on ABCNNBCBS

[aloysius89]

Soccer in Umm Khayall...
That's the best news of the day. Is this count as an international friendly match for the Iraqis.

[TonyInOhio]

NPR (yeah, I know) reporter says she saw large numbers of persons listening to shortwave reports all around Baghdad today; they know that we have arrived.

She indicated that the western and southern exits from the city have been blocked by the regime.

[Green]

so does this mean we have secured Basra? or how will CNN spin this one?

[Carolina]

Iraq TV saying that 5 US tanks have been captured near the airport.