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

Multiple ^ | April 10, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Operation Iraqi Freedom

This Thread is dedicated to the Countries of the Coalition

Afghanistan
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Uzbekistan

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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	Day 21

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Good Morning.

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

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

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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...

[TomGuy]

New Washington Post/ABC poll shows support for the war at 80%. [That'll gall Peter Jennings. Hope he reads it first thing in the office this morning.]

[prairiebreeze]

Good mooooorning Situation Room! What a day yesterday!!

Anybody know the time the Prez is to speak?

Thanks, Prairie

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Morning Wizard. Sorry to hear the Brits are saying the locals in Basrah should be disarmed. We need to work on deprogramming these PC-infested socialists. Armed Iraqi locals could have prevented a Saddam Hussein.

[Jackie-O]

I know ,my emotions are still all over the place too! I cried so much yesterday that my eyes are puffy like they are during allergy season!
But yesterday/last night was sooo much fun here on FR, wasn't it!! ;0)

[retrokitten]

That is a very sweet story!

[Carolina]

Reminds me of the manzire or the bro.

Uh-oh. Don't remind me of that nightmare. Ugghh.

[epluribus_2]

Jennings: It's only a small crowd

[BagCamAddict]

Dr. Bob says two journalists just got hit in An Nasiryah. Preliminary info, not much more known at this time.

[An.American.Expatriate]

A couple of interesting threads...

Alert for ‘Iraqi tankers’ off Crete with top Iraqi government officials on board

CIA Officers Pick Up Saddam Hussein's Dentist, Confiscate Patient Records Midnight Wednesday (debka) ^ I SAY AGAIN - D E B K A

[BagCamAddict]

Wasn't An Nasiriyah... somewhere else that I couldn't understand or spell if I wanted to.

[An.American.Expatriate]

The leftist press just can't give it up: American troops don't like this war; even the name rankles ^

[retrokitten]

Morning, prairie!

But yesterday/last night was sooo much fun here on FR, wasn't it!! ;0)

It was fun! I am sooooo sleepy today! Everyday I say, "No FReeping tonight- sleep!" Then every night I end up right back here.

I don't know if it's because the snow is all gone now and my allergies are acting up or what, but I am totally stuffed up. I think it might be my body telling me NO freeping tonight! LOL!

[BagCamAddict]

Re: journalists who were hit, at An Nathia or something like that. Big battle according to the Iraqi that Dr. Bob is talking to. More as it comes in.

[kcvl]

To congratulate the Iraqi people on their Independence Day go here...

http://www.al-iraq.org/contactus.htm

Aziz Al-Taee, of the Iraqi American Council, was just on Fox and Friends and he is GREAT. He said he didn't care what the "Arab Street" said. Some of his family still lives in Baghdad and the way they communicated about the war was to call it the "BIG WEDDING".

[Timeout]

Just spotted these lines in Howard Fineman's Newsweek column. Referring to Bush's trips to military bases during this war, both to boost troop morale and his own:

From top to bottom, the U.S. military loathed his predecessor, Bill Clinton. They seem genuinely to adore Bush. I saw this on a Thanksgiving trip I took with him to Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne. When he arrived to speak to a sea of Screaming Eagles, they literally were screaming. The president, wearing a bomber jacket for the occasion, beamed like a man in his element. It was like a rock concert, star and audience as one.

I won't link the whole thing...it's just the same ole, same ole...other than that quote.

[prairiebreeze]

I know what you mean kitten! I came home at 10 determined to call it a night, checked out FR "just once" and was here until nearly midnight!! Yawwwwnn!

Prairie

[BagCamAddict]

Re: journalists hit

"We just received word that 3 French journalists were injured... in a bombing there... trying to get more details."

[An.American.Expatriate]

Slamming the Media: Hall of Shame--Media recriminations after VB Day. ^

[retrokitten]

That title is a little misleading. Stupid press.

[oceanperch]

This is my kind of story being a mom to an 8 and 11 year old Lab boys.

I love dogs for just what they provide to the human spirit.

Be nice to see some pics.