*** 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!

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

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[Big Bad Bob]

And this is Democracy! Blix's was in reality, Saddam's own weapon inspector, so no wonder Blix didn't want to make any finds for obvious reasons.

[Carolina]

Oh geez .. did they really ask that?

The line last night was, "Where are all the RGs? Why isn't there more resistance?"

So our average Joe Reporter was trying to connect dots. No fighters at airport...no more fighting...war done...

[commish]

Welcome to FR. Once you cross the line there is no going back! LOL!

[Daniel Ramsey]

just to add a personal info of myself briefly, I live and work in Alaska in construction, often outside in winter when its -45, normal summer for us is about 3 months of 65-75 degree days, anything over that and we get heat exhaustion, its acclimation, when I was younger I worked in 125 degree Las Vegas heat, got used to it. Our troops will work it out.

[RummyChick]

Monkey Boy provides great entertainment

[Quilla]

Welcome to Free Republic! We understand your sentiments, as we can't keep our mouths shut either. :)

[Big Bad Bob]

Damm Right, that man!

[retrokitten]

Thankfully, no black ice yet. It's supposed to be 46 today, but Saturday and Sunday I don't think it's supposed to get out of the 30's.

[Carolina]

Sooooooo. At ABC, when it says "Live" on the screen....it's not?

Hahahahaha! Liz the producer messed up the audio.

[pitinkie]

Beautiful and warm here!!

[dogbyte12]

ambulance going by on bagdad cam

[commish]

Sirens and BOOMS on the Bagcam .. couple of small ones on outskirts sounded like

[Sacajaweau]

An imbedded reporter said the lead Marines at the Baghdad front door had a tough 5 hour fight with many casualties. I'm not seeing this yet in official news but it sounded pretty serious. He was pretty shook.

I thought some of 4ID had landed.

[Daniel Ramsey]

i just heard something about the "powder" its an explosive? didn;t catch all of it.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I hope they replay the sing-along.

Turned on MSNBC in time to see that NBC's own chem. testing - the same tests CIA and UN weapons' inspectors use - found traces of deadly (illegal) chemicals. Guess NBC wasn't going to trust the Bush Admin. Heh.

[Poser]

No golf here. I was supposed to ride one of my motorcycles over to Manchester today for lunch at a restaurant named after the sound an owl makes. I rescheduled for next Wednesday.

[Lauratealeaf]

Unfortunately that's exactly what I think, probably executed. PFC Lynch was from the same unit - we saw 4 dead and 5 on TV, now we have 9 dead. Sadly the math adds up.

I think you are forgetting the four bodies that were found buried last week. So, there have been 13 bodies recovered in all but haven't heard about identification. So if those were the two soldiers seen sipping tea on that video that still leaves five who were seen initialy, (including Shoshana) the two captured after the helicopter crashed and the missing girl named Lori. One other I am not sure about.

[Big Bad Bob]

It's bloody nice over here in the GoE, 56c in Folkestone.

[Wyatt's Torch]

AFPhys - thanks for the link. I'll read over the weekend.

I would like to get your thoughts on this brilliant (in my opinion) column by Victo Davis Hanson on NRO: The Train Is Leaving the Station

[two23]

I saw that too --right now, The minstry of (dis) information is on