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

Multiple ^ | April 3rd, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Wailing children, the wounded, the dead: victims of the day cluster bombs rained on Babylon ^

posted for reference only - read at your own risk...

[The Wizard]

Did they get the pilot of the F18 that went down

[blondee123]

Special ops has command and control in Baghdad.Inside

Just ran back in here after I heard that, what FABULOUS news!!! Go USA!

[Tree of Liberty]

There's been no update on that for several hours

[MEG33]

How can this be? Where is Baghdad Bob?Inquiring minds want to know!

[LikeLight]

911 International is good . . .

[Timesink]

WHERE'S THE QUAGMIRE?!?!?!

Bwa-ha-haaa! "Special Republican Guard" my butt. Saddam's Kindergarten Killers is more like it. They're really big bullies until the adults come out onto the playground and bring the paddle.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Special Ops In Control of Iraqi Command and Control in Baghdad!

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

How can this be? Where is Baghdad Bob?Inquiring minds want to know!

Hopefully captured.. or even better, captured during his press confrence today as he is lying through his teeth on TV.

[LikeLight]

Quagmire International . . .

[Fledermaus]

I bet this is payoff for all the reports we heard over last week that our command was "in contact" with Iraqi command.

Saddam is dead or, as Col. Hunt on Fox reported "with source", on actual life support.

[spectr17]

Where is Baghdad Bob?

He caught the last train to Clarksville if he's smart.

[Fledermaus]

LOL...you win! That's perfect!

[Timesink]

Fox: "Close to the Tipping Point." Theoretically, this could all be over in 24 hours or so. Probably too much to hope for, but not at all outside the realm of possibility.

[Fitzcarraldo]

U.S. troops in northern Iraq prepare to move on Baghdad

"...KANILAN, Iraq - A U.S. airborne brigade in northern Iraq is preparing to move south toward a ridge of hills northeast of Baghdad, backed by U.S. air power, special operations forces and tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas, according to U.S. and opposition officials.

Some of the 173rd Airborne Brigade's combat forces left their base in the north Wednesday on armed patrols to probe for Iraqi forces in the direction of the oil-rich northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. Another battalion was expected to do the same soon.

But the officials said the withdrawal of Iraqi Republican Guard divisions that had been guarding Mosul and Kirkuk appeared to have opened the way for a U.S.-led force to move toward Baghdad, rather than concentrate on securing Kirkuk, Mosul and the oil fields as originally planned.

"We soon will be closing in on Baghdad from all directions, including the north," a senior administration official in Washington said..."

[MEG33]

If we control water, etc we can keep them from blowing it up.Inside fall meant WE would be inside.

[Professional]

Private Lynch was fighting to the death, didn't want to be captured alive. Gee, why wouldn't she want to be captured? I have a tremendous amount of respect for this true hero. Contrast THAT bravery with our "heroic" athletes...

This lady deserves some serious medals for bravery and guts!

Women on the battlefield? At least, for the next 30-40 yrs, women will have no illusions of what it is they're signing up for. If they want to take the risk, knowing full well, then let them.

[spectr17]

Whoraldo Inernational?

Jerry Rivers Inernational?

[Tree of Liberty]

Excellent point.

Fox - Presidential palaces are on the outskirts of Baghdad. "Coming and going as they please" means that SpecOps has no resistance.

[The Wizard]

Good morning