***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 23 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 11 APR 03 | An.American.Expatriate

[Jaded]

That it's 1/4 of what it was in 1990? He gutted the military. Clinton is responsible for disgracing this country. GGGGGGRRRRRRRRR

I'm glad I'm cube-bound. I'd throw things at the TV.

[MEG33]

I can't believe the amount of stored ammo,etc they've found.

[EllaMinnow]

Isn't it funny how the same media who turn a blind eye on the rioting and looting that go on in major American cities after basketball championship wins are all in a swoon about the Iraqis doing grab-and-runs on their oppressors' offices and palaces?

I continue underwhelmed.

[Aaron0617]

Look what Geraldo has found. For the love of Christ...

This country is overflowing with Ammo, Guns, RPGs and all kinds of crap. Not the mention all the paid mercenaries and terrorist training camps.

Why are people poor? Why are they living in mud huts in slums???

[Jackie-O]

Bookmark for home...Thanks RC!!!
Later all!

[Dog]

He said there was 6 other rooms full of ammo....wow.

[Lauratealeaf]

Is he wearing his hat?

Nope. He said that everywhere they go ordinary Iraqis are saying, "Good, very good, or Bush good!"

[retrokitten]

According to the anti-war folks, it's because we starved them with UN sanctions.

[MEG33]

The reporters need their own personal Tank to feel safe. They are having the vapors..Big Time.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Wanker-Spanker big time!!

Big time! I can not possibly type as fast as Rummy can expound when Rummy takes off after a wanker! I just sit here typing and ginning and enjoying the moment....hoping to capture at least the flavor of the rant for our cubicle-bound Freepers. Today's transcript will be a keeper. (^;

[null and void]

Look. I am not heartbroken about a museum being looted. Good grief. As far as we know it may have just had Saddam Hussein's baby booties in it. Don't let CNN get you to squalling over some ole dead bones.

It's a bit more than that. Mesopotamia, the old Iraq, is the very cradle of civilization as we know it.

Their past is, in many ways, our past.

It is also part of their future - tourism - which will bring a an ongoing friendly western influence to the new Iraq...

[Carolina]

OMG, Beeb is showing an interview with Combover. He's crying as he talks about watching the scenes from Iraq. He says he's withdrawing with dignity.

[cyncooper]

Christian, the war slut, said that we should have left some of the Iraqi government intact ie Republican Guard to contain this barbaric looting.

You just know that she knows everything this CNN bureau chief knew and knows, plus more, I'll bet.

I don't think I could bear to look at her right now. And just think who she's married to. I'll bet he knew during his tenure with clinton.

I think we can link the CNN coverup with the clinton administration easily.

[TonyInOhio]

I'm still looking for some one special to give the name McWanker to...any ideas?

How about the sniveling, sneering, holier-than-thou John McWethy of ABC News? He certainly fits the bill.

[nicmarlo]

I can't watch t.v., dog; I'm at my work prison, lol! Describe, please; where's Geraldo anyways, I thought he was in Qatar???

[Lauratealeaf]

Christian, the war slut, said that we should have left some of the Iraqi government intact ie Republican Guard to contain this barbaric looting.

War sluts don't get to say what is to be done. Barbaric looting my a$$!

[Carolina]

Christiane's hubby is an embedded pundit with the Beeb. I put him on mute each time he's on.

[EternalVigilance]

Why I Support the Reelection of President George W. Bush

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/891075/posts

[TonyInOhio]

Christiane's hubby is an embedded pundit with the Beeb.

And a former high ranking Clinton bootlicker, to boot.

[Catspaw]

Why are people poor? Why are they living in mud huts in slums???

Good question.

Saddam lived large. Check out this LA Times article (you'll have to register) to see how HE lived:

Hussein's 64-Bath Getaway
At one of his palaces, troops explore 22 kitchens and countless bedrooms. They also find cheetahs, bears and packed suitcases.

By David Zucchino, Times Staff Writer

BAGHDAD -- For the record, Saddam Hussein seems to prefer Italian suits, double-breasted, by Canali. He favors silk ties, some by Hermes, in solids or subtle patterns. He brushes with Colgate.

The dictator's clothes were hanging Thursday in the wardrobe of a luxurious upstairs bedroom in one of the dozens of compounds within a palace complex that stretches for two miles along the west bank of the Tigris River here. On a coffee table lay a wedding album containing photos of Hussein cutting a wedding cake, and on a bureau were snapshots of his sons, Uday and Qusai, as young boys.

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The palace was so large that DeCamp had his men count the rooms and write the numbers on an index card: 142 offices, 64 bathrooms, 19 meeting rooms, 22 kitchens, countless bedrooms, one movie theater, five "huge ballrooms" and one "football-field sized monster ballroom."

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In a closet were 20 to 30 black and navy blue suits, tailored for a tall, barrel-chested man. Many were still inside garment bags, tailors' tags on their sleeves. Dozens of shirts with French cuffs hung in long rows.

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DeCamp moved on to another ornate compound where, the night before, his battalion had discovered a hoard of luxury items. He dragged open a door. Inside were vast supplies of TV sets, Moet champagne, Russian vodka, imported American cigarettes, 150 Persian rugs, Parker pen sets, French wines and expensive Lladro figurines. These, according to the colonel, were gratuities handed out by Hussein's functionaries to favored members of the ruling Baath Party. He offered no explanation for the cache of UNICEF children's clothes and toys.

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