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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[TheLion]

Will they (libs) now be bashing Fox for this unsensitive photo?

[spectr17]

Ewwwwww beggggggie. CNN showing a female pilot explaining how to drop bombs from fighter.

"Then we just squeeze the pickle button."

I think I'm in love.

[GOPyouth]

I don't recall saying that you were one of those, but if I did, I apologize.

[O Neill]

Is there a civilian medal for enduring CNN for so many hours?

Yes, you may qualify for a Lewinsky!

[amom]

lol

[Fledermaus]

That wacky stuff makes me laugh. The website has pictures posted from idiots that think the light hitting lens of a their digital camera is a UFO.

My favorite was the pictures of "dancing ghosts" this one woman posted of her digital camera picking up rain.

[MEG33]

The German sounds stressed. I wonder if it's just normal from"volitile situation" he mentioned.(war) or the Iraqis?

[Consort]

Friendly fire(?).....Collateral Damage(?).....Organic Debris(?).....Wasn't the media was warned weeks ago to leave Baghdad?.

[bootyist-monk]

Couldn't agree with you more. Shep got this one wrong. There is no comparison.

Any "journalist" who agreed to stay in Baghdad as a "guest" of the Iraqi government basically agreed to become a propaganda tool, since they can't say or show anything that their minders don't want them too. Our embedded reporters, on the other hand, have been showing live, real-time images directly from the front lines.

Thankfully, we have seen steady US victory, but it is just as easy to imagine a situation where Greg Kelly is live as a Bradley takes a kill shot, or even worse, one of the soldiers riding in the vehicle next to him takes one. It could have happened, and still might, so to compare the two seems a stretch to me.

[Prince Charles]

No problem... anyone FReeping at this late hour HAS to be a good guy.

Cheers.

[stlnative]

No Problem... I go through them nightly, so why not share as many people may miss out on seeing them.

[spectr17]

CNN, CENTCOM Brig. Gen Brooks on sniper fire from press hotel in briefing today.

Too early to say what happended. We don't know enough yet to have the big picture.

[nicollo]

lol!

Either that or I'm lost here. Please say that you understand my comments to regard the attitude of the press, and not our shells... please?

[najida]

It is a war! Hello!

Journalists! Those big SUV's with tracks are tanks...
Those guys with guns are soldiers....

Those things flying by your ears are bullets....

I know you weren't staying here for the Baklava..

[Fledermaus]

Thanks, I saw here already. Laurie just said she likes watching those statues come down.

She can help make my statue come down any day!

[thedugal]

I hope they liberate the hotel tonight.

You mean from traitorous western press?