***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 21 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[Consort]

She's on MSNBC.

[AFPhys]

It looks like they are going to be in this position for at least two weeks, the sergeant says," said a Reuters reporter with U.S. forces in central Iraq.

Ah, yes... I remember that article well... thanks for the dig at the mediots

[Tree of Liberty]

ROFL!!! He's probably trying to print out his resume, getting an error and saying "No! Not again! Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam! I swear to God one of these days I'm just going to kick this piece of $%(^ out of the window."

[GOPyouth]

heh heh damn she's back. :)

[umbagi]

WOW! David Chater may be turning from the Dark Side! He just admitted that there are armed men hiding in the Mosque.

Okay, that's cool -- if he doesn't jump into a ten-minute extemporaneous diatribe on what a brilliant strategy that is, and how they've been forced into it by coalition treachery...

[Tree of Liberty]

Oh, what I'd give for a Marine to "correct" that helmet with his rifle butt

[thedugal]

He just said there are armed men in the buildings around him. Give him a bit of a break. (reserving judgement)

[Tree of Liberty]

Wow, they have landmarks named after hobbits?

[umbagi]

Yeah I love the look of the cockeyed helmet.

I wonder if he worked as hard at that as 3-2-1 Rick does with his hair?

[TomGuy]

Chater "wouldn't comment" on the fact that Iraqis were beating Saddam's pic with a shoe (insult)...

Chater doesn't seem to be a happy camper this morning.

[Timeout]

Mornin', Howlin! BaghDaddys celebrating and looting...some said "Thank you, thank you, Mr. Bush!". It's happening all over Iraq, sounds like. This has only been going on for about 1 1/2 hrs. Anarchy rules. You're still in time for the scene on the BagCam..nothing's happened there yet..not tanks.

Meanwhile, Lyin' Lyndsey was just broadcasting on the BagCam and, in mid sentence, she just went **POOF**---she disappeared! Vaporized. Wish we could arrange that for a few more "reporters". We just hope we're seeing live shot and not tape.

Looks like a good morning in Baghdad!

[Daniel Ramsey]

Man that was weird, I blinked and she was gone, at first I thought she was hit by a sniper or hit the deck when a gun shot rang out, so whats the explanation?

[Prince Charles]

The Bagcam wench is on MSNBC!

[Timeout]

Lyndsay's on MSNBC

[Timeout]

Let's see if she disappears! LOL!

[Consort]

Yes, Lindsey Hilsum, ITN.

[Howlin]

I'm looking now......where are the women?

(And isn't it scarey how they look the very same when they're chanting for Saddam and when they're chanting for freedom?)

[Prince Charles]

LOL

[goldstategop]

"Good Morning Baghdad." (With a backhand slap at Robin Williams' Role in THAT other movie.)

[kcvl]

Posted on Wed, Apr. 09, 2003

New life for some after Saddam's rule
TECHNOCRATS PUTTING EXPERIENCE TO USE
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Mercury News

BASRA, Iraq - For much of his adult life, Dr. Yaseen Taher served Saddam Hussein. As an Iraqi military general and a high-ranking official in Saddam's Baath party, Taher was in charge of the doctors who patched up Iraqi soldiers fighting against U.S. and British forces.

That all changed Tuesday. Taher joined the enemy and launched a new life helping to rebuild a postwar Iraq. He came out of hiding after British military commanders spread the word that Iraqi military doctors would be spared from prosecution under the Geneva Convention.

As British forces tighten their control over Basra, attention is turning toward the postwar phase. Technocrats of the old Saddam government are becoming valuable assets for the U.S.-led coalition's goals of rebuilding poorly equipped hospitals and other rundown infrastructure projects to win the confidence of ordinary Iraqis.






http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/5592274.htm