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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[steveegg]

M-88 getting clear before the statue falls.

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Hume - gesture is a "good-bye wave".

[abner]

I'm recording on my computer. I uploaded it right away.

[Howlin]

I bet he is, too.

[dsw]

Adios, my friend.

[Anamensis]

The trouble with shaving is that these people would consider it a badge of honor I say give them ''big hair'' and make them wear a pretty dress and heels. That would really freak them out.

LOL... whenever I'm confronted with hippies I just brandish a bar of soap at them like a crucifix and they shrink away... Haha, Brit, "That gesture his is like a good by wave, isn't it?" (Statue)

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Am I right that the Iraqi flag being displayed doesn't have Saddam's cynical "Allahu Akbar" on it?

(The three-star flag itself actually predates the Ba'athist regime).

[SCWard]

Worth repeating:

Let Freedom ring
Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today
Is a Day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong
Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away
Let the guilty pay
It's Independence Day

[Timeout]

Brit Hume just said that statue looks like it now "waving goodbye!" Ha Ha Ha

[Abigail Adams]

Richard E. now on CBS bagcam. Be quiet!

[manatee]

Brit says the gesture is a good bye wave now!!! LOL See ya later buddy!! LOL

[Mo1]

BTW ... Where is Bagdad BoB????

[Herodotus]

is the Iraqi flag on the top of the crane? i thought i saw it sway in the wind

[AppyPappy]

Not coming down. That baby is anchored in deep,

[Cboldt]

Yes, MSNBC reported this, coming from Chip Reid today.

Selfish twerps. My 6 year old is more mature than these idiots.

[Severa]

*blink* there's a cameraman on the ARV...

[melodie]

BUH...BYE

[retrokitten]

I just want to say that I hope tomorrow at the CentCom briefing BGeneral Brooks comes in and doesn't take any questions and just shows a video of the people celebrating and this ugly statue coming down then gives the press the finger and leaves. I know he probably has too much class for that, but it sure would be great.

[steveegg]

Down goes Saddam! Down goes Saddam!

[Conan the Librarian]

WHOOOOO HOOOOO!!!! ITS TIPPING!

[dfwgator]

Down goes Saddam, down goes Saddam, down goes Saddam...