***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 26 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 14 APR 03 | An.American.Expatriate

[hmmmmm]

I hear them too, it's such a great sound.

[Ymani Cricket]

CNN talking to the Brit about Russia spying on Tony Blair. pretty heavy stuff. Check it out.

[umbagi]

They were out yesterday, about the same numbers (~100), and it would probably have been the lead story this morning if the good news about the POWs hadn't displaced it.

Counting the people in cars looking for parking spots (and those quadruple-parked over to the right in front of that building), there are about three times as many people _not_ protesting, but the media won't notice that...

[hmmmmm]

They'll start up just as soon as a camera points their direction.

[amom]

LOL


Chanting again

[hmmmmm]

There seems to be 3 men organizing them, like choir directors. Now a bunch are leaving, including the guy with the sign.

[Brad’s Gramma]

VERY good possibility. Let's see if it turns violent. Please, Lord, no.....

[Mo1]

This has to be organized by members of the former government.

Yep .. you will notice the one guy in the yellowish shirt that keeps raising his arms to get them to chant more

This looks like something out of the DNC play book

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

I'm serious, it actually sounded like that. I think I should go to bed.

[BagCamAddict]

I need help... just had a 1-hour conversation with a friend of mine. I had no idea how Left he was until this. Anyway, I didn't have a good rebuttal to a couple of his points, one of which was:

If Saddam was in fact selling WMD to terrorists, then why haven't we seen any chemical attacks in places like Israel (like we see suicide bombings).

I didn't have an answer, other than that I don't know how complicated the delivery system is for a chemical "suicide" attack, so it may be too complicated for individual terrorists to pull off. Any suggestions for a more substantial rebuttal for his question?

[Cboldt]

CENTCOM (per FoxNews, Brian Wilson) says April 2 shootdown of F-18, pilot killed, was via Patriot missile.

[hmmmmm]

There';s also a guy in a white shirt and another in a pink shirt.

[umbagi]

Protestors quiet

And some appear to be giving up and leaving.

Sounds like a good time for me to sneak of and go to bed "early" before something changes my mind :-). G'nite, y'all -- hold down the fort!

[Mo1]

Looks like the camera guy went away cause they are starting to leave now

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Maybe, just maybe, Iraqis will notice that these guys can demonstrate against us without getting fed into a shredder, and the whole thing will backfire.

[Brad’s Gramma]

GO! (and sleep well!)

[TheLion]

Later

[Mo1]

LOL .. the camera guy is back and so is the chanting

[amom]

Humm a TV van drove by and they didn't up the volume and the sign was down.

Chanting again

Oh I see the chant directors...in the middle of the road...looks like they're conducting an orchestra. lol

[amom]

Planes and pop pop pop sounds