***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 19 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 7, 2003 | Various

[commish]

A-10 on the Bagcam .. ain't she a beauty!!!

[Mo1]

This is the father that sent his response to invite for the Fla Rally for AMerica.... nice letter read at Rallystating he would be there except he was going to be at his son's funeral...

Oh Wow ..

I saved that link and will look at it later, I can't right now or I might lose it

Thanks for the link

[Timeout]

I believe they're grabbing strategic real estate right inside the city to use as bases of operations. Clean out the rats, set up a perimeter, then do raids from right inside the city. OMG, this is so aggresive!

[umbagi]

Great view of a warthog on the webcam!

[Poser]

That one is a drone.

[Tree of Liberty]

ARRRG Lost picture on NTV

[dogbyte12]

we have to be really confident we got most of their AAA to be flying that A-10 so low.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

CNN - TV. Gunfire heard in the distance.

[MEG33]

Close..

[mhking]

Lots of small arms fire...

[An.American.Expatriate]

From last nights thread ....

May I make a suggestion to whomever re-starts these threads every day?

Would it be possible to make 2 separate Sit Room threads -- one would be for ACTUAL NEWS / WAR RELATED, and the second one would be for COMMENTARY / CHIT CHAT / JOKES / OFF TOPIC stuff.

This would make it MUCH EASIER for people to get caught up on the NEWS when they check in, rather than having to read through a couple THOUSAND posts that are mostly just banter. I love the banter, and I am an active participant in that. But I have also spent 4-5-6 or more hours just catching up because the thread is so long and you have to weed through so much to FIND the news.

And it would be easy enough for regulars to have both threads open in separate windows at the same time (the NEWS thread and the CHAT thread).

Just a friendly suggestion, and I hope you will consider it.

Thank you! :-)

Noted.

I started a separate belly girl thread for this purpose, but people will do what people do.

An.American.Expatriate, any thoughts from Switzerland? How about you, Centurion 2000?

MY 2 CENTS - The Sit Room is designed for discussion of the events as they happen.  Links should be provided to other threads (where "in depth" discussion  happens).  During lulls,  a bit of chit-chat breaks the tedium and is desirable.  Excessive OT banter is distracting and each poster is encouraged to use common sense.  There are Chat Rooms available or you can create your own and link to it.   On a related topic - excessive posting of pictures can be a problem for the braod band challenged.  The Mod Guys suggested a while back that, before posting the pic, get the dimensions and post the with the pic, this allows the browser to continue to load the rest of the page even though the pic is not fully loaded.  Example:

< img src="http://www.piclink.org/pic.jpg" alt="Cool Pic" width="100" height="150" >


Take out the space between < img & "150" > !!!

[Fledermaus]

Plug it back in Achmed, quit stepping on the cords.

[adaven]

HOLY COW they're close!

[Consort]

Acmhed spassed.

[mhking]

NTV video gone; audio continues...

[AlextheWise1]

must have video

[Poser]

The one on Fox sure isn't a drone.

[bootyist-monk]

A-10 on NTV Cam, then lost picture. Sounds of battle very close.

[commish]

Drones don;t have those distinctive engines... I just lost my picture GRRRR

[amom]

Hey my friend. My video just went to black..but boy the audio works!