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

Multiple ^ | April 9, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Operation Iraqi Freedom

This thread is dedicated to the brave men and women of the

 Armed Forces of the United States of America.

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"Wish You Were Here"

For all the free people that still protest.
You're welcome. We protect you and you are protected by the best.
Your voice is strong and loud,
but who will fight for you? No one standing in your crowd.
We are your fathers, brothers, and sons,
wearing the boots and carrying guns.
We are the ones that leave all we own,
to make sure your future is carved in stone.
We are the ones who fight and die,
We might not be able to save the world, Well, at least we try.
We walked the paths to where we are at
and we want no choice other than that.
so when you rally your group to complain,
take a look in the back of your brain.
In order for that flag you love to fly
wars must be fought and young men must die.
We came here to fight for the ones we hold dear.
If that's not respected, we would rather stay here.
So please stop yelling, put down your signs,
and pray for those behind enemy lines.
When the conflict is over and all is well,
be thankful that we chose to go through hell.

Corporal Joshua Miles and all the boys from 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines,
Kuwait 3/9/2003

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Links to the past threads

Day 1	Day 8	Day 15
Day 2	Day 9	Day 16
Day 3	Day 10	Day 17
Day 4	Day 11	Day 18
Day 5	Day 12	Day 19
Day 6	Day 13	Day 20
Day 7	Day 14

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Mhking's live cam links 

Live Video/Audio Feeds: (If you can't reach a feed by clicking on it, make sure to try copying the address, and pasting it in the appropriate browser -- WMV=Windows Media Player; Real=Real Player/RealOne; MP3=WinAmp/Audion/other streaming MP3 player; QT=QuickTime) FR: Final Update: Streaming Video/Audio Links (Includes info & HTML/Javascript code on how to create your own multi-feeds page)
"Mother Of All War Websites" (Additional links to live audio/video feeds)
VirtualTuner.com - Showdown in Iraq
WWI-TV Portal (WorldWide Internet-TV Portal Site)
Abu Dhabi TV (Real - Arabic)
BBC/Baghdad Cam(Real)
BBC News 24 (Real - 56)
BBC News 24 (Real - BB)
CablePulse 24 - Toronto (WMV)
CBS/Baghdad Cam (Real)
CBC RadioOne - Toronto (QT)
CN8 Philadelphia (Real)
CNN+ (Spain) (WMV)
CNN Baghdad Cam (WMV)
CNN Radio (WMV)
CNN via KGW/Portland (Real - mostly down)
DW-TV Berlin (Real - German/English)
IraqiTV (Real)
IraqiTV (WMV - #1)
IraqiTV (WMV - #2)
IraqiTV (WMV - #3)
ITN News Channel - London (Real - Audio Only)
MSNBC/NBC (WMV/Feeds page)
MSNBC (WMV - Audio Only - Headlines & Breaking News)
MSNBC Bagdad Cam (WMV)
N-TV Berlin (Real - In German Where Available)
NTV Baghdad Cam (Real)
NWCN, Seattle/Portland (Real)
Reuters Feedroom (Real - Raw Video Feeds)
Sky News (56K - WMV/Copy/Paste)
Sky News (BB - WMV/Copy-Paste)
SNN6 Sarasota, FL (Real)
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMV - Fox Affiliate)

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Cboldt's Goody Bag

Baghdad City Maps

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/baghdad_nima_2003.jpg <-- 1.6 Mb
http://www.stripes.com/02/dec02/baghdad.pdf <-- 440 Kb

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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - LIVE THREAD.

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To all who helped this get started and keep it running, thank you!

Special thanks to Null and Void for keeping these threads running on the weekends, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, Ragtime Cowgirl for her Exclusive Live Transcription Service™, Fledermaus for his 15 minutes of fame, and, of course, Belly Girl...

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[melodie]

"slant?" What slant? It's just an illusion...snicker snicker

[POGIFFMOO]

Just what I used to do every time I hit one of her soliloquies. There was one in Fountainhead, ran about 75 pages.....made the book go faster.

[oceanview]

anyone watching CNN? They are not giving up, still focusing only on negative things. Its unreal.

[EllaMinnow]

Hi Jonathan!
Good luck and prayers go with you.

[cyncooper]

What if you beat someones mustache with a shoe?

This happened in the very first days of this campaign in Safwan. The troops arrive, people decline to be identified in the meda by name, but pics of Saddam's pic being torn down are published.

But FIRST, the first image of a man beating Saddam's image while saying "I curse your mustache".

Ever since I have marveled as we were treated to endless questions from the briefing bozos about "when would we see Iraqis celebrating their 'liberation'". It was beyond deceitful conduct when the press surely was aware of incidents like the above.

[ztiworoh]

I believe the accepted form is "Shame be upon your moustache!"

[retrokitten]

GOPprincess asked the same thing earlier in the thread. Neither of us has heard if they are or not, but we both e-mailed Fox sugguesting that they release a DVD and/or video of their coverage. It's something that would be great to show kids or grandkids in the future...provided they don't invent something else to watch movies on in the future.

[Cboldt]

Hitchens - Leftist Demans Met <-- Link

Read that, read it now.

Read it! Hitch is "on fire," in a polite way.

What a way with words.

[Wyatt's Torch]

I bet Daschle is truly "deeply saddened" today. Except he is sad it was so successful.

[cyncooper]

>P>no frenching way goatgirl not in the bottom 3

LOL!

Arizona does not do daylight savings so now we're the same time as California and I really have to wait to see a show you all are seeing now.

May I say, I said last week I like Carmen, but I thought after last night's performance she would be off for sure!

Now I'm not sure if I should keep reading the thread or not, since I would likely find out who is tossed before it airs here. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

[pitinkie]

so is CBS..how terrible Basra is..no water or electricity..as if we did that to them. Saddam shut it off!!!

[bvw]

Baath is, I guess, sort of the radical socialist party in princible. I don't care to understand, differentiate, heed or entertain all the fine distinctions between types of socialists anymore than I do of American conservatives. I don't think it matters -- I think moral and ethical princibles matter very much, as do individuals, and in the course of human affairs, allowance for small individual foibles and favors -- the tiniest -- matter as much as grand, ornate and byzantine categorizations of social or political ordering.

Syria is ever been a flux of ruling and rulers, and that flux is not settled by established rules, order and law, such as we have enjoyed in the US and Britan for hundreds of years, It is ad hoc, by coup, by death, by presented opportunity.

The "Baath" party rules as I understand from reading in that it has persisted through changes and so it enjoys a "name branding" maybe more than anything we might ascibe to it by politics. Politics there is connections, and balance of powers, of forces, those forces are family, sect, and international, one's political allies easily cross borders. and positions of power in most of those Arab states can only be held by balancing one's allies and one's enenies as much abroad as at home -- and in the case of Syria, the current ruler may have burdened his Iraqi Baath connections too much for his own good.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I so apologize for trailing off here...the day's excitement is catching up. I'm back at #5865, been behind all day. It's like nitrous oxide, without the annoying spit-sucking hose. Good for me only. (^:

[ztiworoh]

Colmes and Michael Reagan getting in quite an argument....

[oceanview]

Alan Colmes is DYING. Just said Pelosi supported the war from the beginning!

[Severa]

Has the major media networks reported about the childrens prison?

[angelwings49]

Excellent article!

[babaloo]

Allan Combes is having a meltdown attacking Michael Reagan.

[cyncooper]

I switched over to MSNBC for a moment--They had a BEAUTIFUL two minute tribute to the days events--not kidding, I started to cry!

I saw the same thing. See #5778. It was very, very well done.

[Severa]

God he actually said 'shame on you'! *LOL*