*** Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 16 - Live Thread ***

Multiple ^ | April 4th 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

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

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[commish]

Lots of nice Smoke Plumes on the BAGCAM looks like we have been busy today ;-)

[AppyPappy]

I can't get good sound from MSNBC2 on Media Player

[Big Bad Bob]

Seeing the situation from here in the GoE, it seems that the Reds are becoming more and more like noentities by the day, don't worry about them, they not exactly going to be worth worrying about when we are on the brink of throwing out the most evil bastard of the past 25 years.

And that's a fact!

[Green]

off to work now....see you all later on

[commish]

I've got great sound on MSNBC Camtoday and crappola on CBS Cam.

[RippleFire]

Someone must have flipped the big honking switch by accident

[Carolina]

Breaking: US found second suspicious site near Baghdad.

Sky Guy in Kutter whining that Gen. Brooks was not "more forthcoming" with information about the first site.

[Big Bad Bob]

Regrettably I'm still living in the 'stone age' of TV so I've still only got the usual four channels, on a similar note I would like your views on the Conduct of the BBC during the war, see if they are the same as mine.

[MEG33]

The people in Baghdad have been detached even with the bombing..I saw one report of life going on as normal..as if nothing going on concerned them.

[Cboldt]

The more these Dems. like Kerry and Tommy D, keep shooting their mouths off . . .

The Dixie Chick recently said that "The more flack I get (over my remarks) the prouder I am." There is a thread on it.

[The Wizard]

Background story on Brian and Col. Hunt:

About 2 months ago Col. Hunt was on in the morning, and Brian, in his off hand comic way followed up the thank you to "Col" Hunt with a throw away line about not making General......

I immediately emailed them and told them that to men in the military, Rank is very important, and someone better get to Col. Hunt and make nice....

This morning Brian asked a Brian type question; ("so we can take Baghdad without taking Baghdad?") and the Col. Looked at him like what the hell did you say, and after they put it in real words, the Col. said, as an aside, "you had it coming, "'didn't make General'"

so I guess that is now ended.......see how long it stuck in the back of the Col.'s mind

[Catspaw]

Someone must have flipped the big honking switch by accident

As the nun who taught me in 3rd grade said, "It's a mystery."

[commish]

The first site sounds like a Chem warfare school. The Vials they found may be Decon agent .. you sprinkle it on yourself and it absorbes liquid chem agents.

But you only go through extensive Decon training like that if you are protecting yourself - from others OR YOUR OWN

[AppyPappy]

Quatar = Kutter

[commish]

I can sum up my feeling about BBC coverage this way -- I am shocked they didn't immediately hire Peter Arnett when NBC fired him.

[MEG33]

I was certain BBC would hire Arnett!

[Straight Vermonter]

If we don't find WMD then the op most certainly is a failure and we will be seen as barbarians. WMDs legitimize what we are doing. Liberating people is great but that is not a national defense isue. Only a national defense issue justifies a pre-emptive war.

[Big Bad Bob]

Hmm. Interesting...VERY INTERESTING!

[Timeout]

Dennis Miller on Jay Leno last night:

Dixie Chicks might as well open world tour in Basra with "Walk Like an Egyptian"

Demonstrators who misuse Hitler: Bush is HItler, Ashcroft is HItler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only one who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache who drops you if you disagree with him

Peter Arnett: How can I trust a guy with a combover like that? Dude, we know you're bald?

Michael Moore: How can such a big guy be such a small man? It is that stupd moron's right to be utterly completely wrong.

[Catspaw]

You are SOOOO good.