***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 22

To: The Wizard; All

Good morning, Situation Room!! I don't think there is enough caffine in the western hemisphere to keep me awake this morning. I'm going to call the Guiness Worlds Record people because I think I've some world-class bags under my eyes today.

821 posted on 04/10/2003 5:54:46 AM PDT by retrokitten (She's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon)

I *love* CC, even though my hearing is fine. You should mail them about this!

Hey Kip. I have been emailing Fox News about this since last summer. Never got an answer from them. We've had many FReepers bombard them with emails. All to no avail. I even emailed Rush since he's very sensitive to deaf issues and he's good friends with Roger Ailes. Nothing. And we're convinced Fox News read these threads so that's why I started doing these daily attention grabbin' messages in hopes of them taking notice of this and perhaps finally taking a look into it.

822 posted on 04/10/2003 5:54:51 AM PDT by Vol2727 (So they could race the sun.........)

To: BagCamAddict

I wrote: "I doubt they would care if the Kurds didn't occupy a large portion of Turkey."

Should have read:

I doubt the Turks would care if the Kurds took over Kirkuk and the oil fields if the Kurds didn't occupy a large portion of Turkey.

823 posted on 04/10/2003 5:57:16 AM PDT by BagCamAddict

>>Lots of smoke over Bag today

maybe the 3rd ID opened up a Billy's Barbecue on the east bank of the tigris.

824 posted on 04/10/2003 5:59:09 AM PDT by epluribus_2

I read that nuke facility report, read the ones about weapons filled with mustard and sarin gas, read the report about the children, some that were just toddlers kept in a prison for 5 years, heard of many other disgusting acts that still has me in shock.

But whats a letdown is that these news reports are not being talked about more, unless all the facts are being laid out and documented. If not I suppose its going to be just forgotten about and most people will never hear about it.

And especially the report of nuclear research, I believe Saddam has working nuclear devices...they(the Iraq government) kept saying with complete confidence that they will have their revenge, I believe it whether its a detonation in Iraq near the airport where most of our troops are, in Baghdad itself, or even one planted here in the states.

And recently the president has asked that there be no live video of him entering Airforce One.

825 posted on 04/10/2003 5:59:34 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey

Anyone hear anything more about the US flag that was put on Saddams face yesterday? I heard it was flown over the Pentagon on Sept. 11, but I'm not finding any articles to back it up just yet...

826 posted on 04/10/2003 5:59:43 AM PDT by retrokitten (She's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon)

Consider too, Hurt was playing an anchor who looked good but never understood the news he was reporting....apt, huh?

That's why that Pretty Chicken poem the other day was soooooooo hilarious.... it was soooooo accurate.

827 posted on 04/10/2003 6:00:10 AM PDT by BagCamAddict

The Amercan flag/Iraq flag moment was a stunning metaphor:

short lived American control until free Iraqis can run their own country.
__________

I never did see where the Iraq flag came from. Did Cpl. Chin's unit get it from the crowd or did they bring it all the way from Kuwait?

828 posted on 04/10/2003 6:01:15 AM PDT by Timeout (...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)

To: BagCamAddict

Pretty Chicken poem? What was that? I missed it!

829 posted on 04/10/2003 6:02:32 AM PDT by Timeout (...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)

the whole statue event was a perfect metaphor for the war - the locals always wanted this down - even tried to do it with a rope, which broke - then the USMC let them climb up a vehicle, put up a chain and with US help the Iraqi's topple Saddam's symbol of oppression. They could not do it alone and knew what to do once it came down. (drag the head through the streets)

830 posted on 04/10/2003 6:03:34 AM PDT by epluribus_2

I heard the same thing on FNC this AM, kitten.
The GI made sure that he brought it with to B-dad because he was working at the Pentagon when it was attacked on 9-11.

831 posted on 04/10/2003 6:04:17 AM PDT by Jackie-O ("WANKER" is my new term of endearment for the Antis!!)

Corporal Chin had it in a utility pocket of his BDU. The Iraq flag was passed up to him.

I have no objection of the flag event, we gave up a lot for the Iraq people and we have no plans of conquest, many folks cannot grasp that scenario.

My biggest concern in the future is black market/drugs and organized crime coming into Iraq like how the USSR became.And AIDS.

A lot of work to keep Iraq secure in the future.

832 posted on 04/10/2003 6:06:47 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey

Yeah, I heard Don talking about it on Don and Roma this morning. It had me balling like a baby in my car on my way in. I am just hoping that it's not urban legend, since I haven't seen any articles or anything about it yet.

833 posted on 04/10/2003 6:07:59 AM PDT by retrokitten (She's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon)

To: An.American.Expatriate

Was in the other room, but thought Tom Aspell on MSNBC said Kirkuk fell without a shot being fired.

834 posted on 04/10/2003 6:09:09 AM PDT by TomGuy

And now from the Left:

The celebrators were CIA paid plants
We needed to take Baghdad airport so we could sneak in Jew-controlled Hollywood props that look like WMD.
France and Germany need to control Iraq to prove that the US/UK didn't fight Iraq for its oil
We had to take over Iraq so we could start selling Iraqi oil to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy
Israel masterminded the whole campaign.
Saddam was about to expose the American and UK's support of his repression.
The scenes of repression are faked.

835 posted on 04/10/2003 6:09:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Made In Prolonging The Problem.)

Had anyone posted this cute story yet? There was apparently a photo that goes with the story... can anyone track down that picture?

The Atlanta Journal
-Constitution: 4/9/03 ] David Kamerman / Boston Globe

Puppy dogs of war lift spirits of troops in Iraq

By ART HARRIS
For The Journal-Constitution

NASIRIYAH, Iraq -- After one firefight on the Euphrates River, the acrid smoke cleared and a U.S. Marine handed Staff Sgt. Nelson Hidalgo two casualties of the war and poverty in Iraq.

The mother was dying of hunger, unable to nurse her young, who were on the verge of starving, too.

The "barbarians," as Marines with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance unit are called, were about to become proud parents.

"We scooped the babies right up," said Hidalgo, nodding at the white puppy chowing down on a military MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) of pasta and vegetables beneath the gun turret of the armored vehicle.

"She only eats Italian food."

Hidalgo's platoon was fresh from fighting its way out of an ambush 80 miles south of Baghdad.

The Marines got out, and so did Mary Jane, an all-white fluff ball, and her twin brother, Nas, named after the southern Iraqi city where the unit has been fighting. He is black with white paws.

Consider them two very lucky pups of war.

"Makes you feel good they are not living like other dogs in Iraq," said Hidalgo. Mary Jane rides with him and his crew. Nas rides with tough-talking Gunnery Sgt. Russell Strack, whose post-puppy personality change has stunned some of the Marines.

In the last week, Strack and Nas have bonded.

Nas travels on Strack's vehicle and curls up at night in Strack's sleeping bag. He bites Strack's ear and yips when he needs to get out.

"He's one smart dog," said Strack.

When Nas was missing in action one morning, Strack and his fellow Marines scrambled to find him. He was nowhere.

Then one Marine said, "Gunny, did you check the sleeping bag?"

Sure enough, when Strack shook the sleeping bag, there was Nas.

"He wasn't very happy with us," said Strack, "but we gave him a beef and mushroom MRE, and he got over it."

"Gunny is hard-core, a real tough Marine," a lance corporal said. "Ever since he had the puppy, he's like a little kid. He doesn't yell as much."

"I never yell," said Strack. "I just motivate."

Indeed, he's motivating Nas as part drill instructor, part adoptive dad, taking pride as the pup parades about the 17-ton LAV as if it was a giant doghouse on eight wheels.

Both Nas and Mary Jane love to be petted, and the Marines can't seem to keep their hands off the unit's unofficial mascots.

The pets have perked up spirits, many Marines said, at a time when no one has had showers in three weeks and soldiers sleep on the rock-hard ground.

"It helps your morale. It gives you something to play with at night when you are on watch, instead of smoking a cigarette. You can play with a dog," said Caleb Green, 18, of Tupelo, Miss. He loves dogs, and said he grew up with a German shepherd and a golden retriever.

"It kind of makes Iraq feel a little bit like home."

Strack did not think the dogs would survive, given their condition when they were found.

"I didn't think Nas would make it at first," he said. But after several feedings of Similac mixed with water, Nas quickly graduated to MREs -- high-cal, high-protein Marine Corps food.

"I've got a big back yard near Camp Lejeune" in North Carolina, said Strack. "I've told all the guys Nas can run around there and live with me until he's ready to go home with one of my Marines."

But first the Marines have to try to figure out how to get Nas and Mary Jane home.

And that could involve quarantine and fighting a war with bureaucracy that could be tougher than the one on the ground in Iraq.

"We've brought back all sorts of things before," said one Marine. "If I have to, I'll smuggle Nas and Mary Jane back. We ain't gonna leave them here to die in Iraq."

836 posted on 04/10/2003 6:10:39 AM PDT by BagCamAddict

MANPAD?

Reminds me of the manzire or the bro.

837 posted on 04/10/2003 6:10:46 AM PDT by retrokitten (She's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon)

I never did see where the Iraq flag came from. Did Cpl. Chin's unit get it from the crowd or did they bring it all the way from Kuwait?

IIRC, it came from someone in the crowd. Not sure though. It was a great moment and I really don't want to overanalyze it. But the mediots are having a cow over it.

838 posted on 04/10/2003 6:12:19 AM PDT by Carolina

MSNBC is showing live shots of Kirkuk main statue coming down right now.

Awwww... aren't you sweet. Yes, I did miss it yesterday. I don't have cable/satellite TV, and I have a dial-up modem. Is it on the MSNBC BagCam? I'm on the CBS BagCam right now.

839 posted on 04/10/2003 6:12:31 AM PDT by BagCamAddict

I'm not so sure that that is mud...
Once again, these soldiers go places I wouldn't dare!

840 posted on 04/10/2003 6:12:37 AM PDT by US_Pride

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