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

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

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

This Thread is dedicated to the Countries of the Coalition

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We know who our friends are. They stood with us.

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[Sacajaweau]

Most of the relics from this civilization are elsewhere and archeologists have been complaining about looting of acheological sites for years.

The Arabs are famous for their smuggling, their exquisite manners, their beautiful language qualities and their shrewdness. I have some delightful circa 1850 books written by an historian as he traveled through the Arab countries. It gives a better perspective of these people and their customs. He was occasionally called "dog", enjoyed the baths, dickered in the market place, visited the then existing palaces. Very interesting.

[Timeout]

I apologize for capitalizing "fedayeen".

[BagCamAddict]

Baghdad Bob has been a bad boy....

AMMAN, Jordan, April 14 (UPI) -- A Jordanian journalist said Monday that Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf threatened to cut off his hands over a report on the advance of U.S. forces on Baghdad.

Majed Abdel Hadi, a correspondent for the Qatari al-Jazeera television, told United Press International that al-Sahhaf, who has vanished since American troops entered Baghdad last week, stormed the channel's offices in Baghdad and threatened to cut off his hands and dump him in the desert if he kept on reporting that the U.S. forces were approaching the Iraqi capital.

Abdel Hadi said al-Sahhaf "accused me of being a U.S. agent and asked me to deny the content of my reports."

Abdel Hadi arrived in Amman a few days ago with the body of his colleague Tarek Ayyoub who was killed last Tuesday during the U.S. bombing of al-Jazeera office in Baghdad.

(That's the full article, but the thread can be found here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892799/posts

[TomGuy]

Canada shut out of postwar contracts in Iraq

[sheikdetailfeather]

Fedayeen story sure was interesting. He just wants the basics. So many have been forced to die for the regime.

[BagCamAddict]

I decided I wanted to fly to Baghdad and tour some of the beautiful sights there...

I called a friend, who agreed to pick me up at the airport. He said to meet him at the curb and look for his car. It's the white one.

[Timeout]

The Sydney Morning Herald compares Greenpeace to Baghdad Bob....and BB comes out on top! After relaying the lies and delusions of Baghdad Bob, they report this:

"In Australia, the rearguard action of behalf of Saddam's regime was fought by Greenpeace. Within 12 hours of al-Sahaf's last stand on the roof of the Palestine Hotel, Greenpeace executed an ambitious public relations guerilla raid on the Australian Navy. Last Tuesday, as HMAS Sydney was leaving Sydney Harbour en route for duty off Iraq, where it will protect the shipping that will bring most of the humanitarian aid to Iraq, a flotilla of 20 small craft and motorised rubber dinghies broke through a cordon of water police craft and sailed in front of the warship.

Two Greenpeace activists on high-speed dinghies hooked themselves onto the side of the ship and unfurled "No War" banners. More ominously, Greenpeace activists had dragged a heavy chain across the passage where HMAS Sydney was sailing, which would have caught and wrecked the propellers, immobilising the ship. The message was not subtle: stop the ship or we will.

One policeman was injured and 10 Greenpeace activists were arrested, including a Greens MP, Ian Cohen. What did Greenpeace want? Describing the war in Iraq as "illegal and immoral", Greenpeace issued this demand: "No more Australian troops should be sent to Iraq, and the ones that are there should be sent home immediately."

Al-Sahaf would have been proud."

They conclude with a message to potential Greenpeace contributors: Remember "its docility towards Saddam Hussein when he was in power, and its fury when he was deposed. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf wasn't the only illusionist exposed last week."
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I didn't think I could get any happier, but this war may just succeed in demolishing the entire enviro-wacko, "for the children", hate the military mindset of the left.

Now, THAT would be delicious!

[Timeout]

:)

[Timeout]

Oh, and be sure to visit the Palestine Hotel and give a Freeper cheer in front of the webcam!

[MinuteGal]

Lest people get carried away with the ongoing beatification of Dickie "the Toe" Morris, here's a sentence inserted in an article he just wrote (which was in other respects complimentary to Bush's war effort):

"I don't agree with very much of his (Bush's) domestic programs. It is too limited and based on an assumption of governmental activity that I don't share. I THINK THAT BILL CLINTON WAS THE BETTER PRESIDENT UP TO THE WATER'S EDGE."

Morris just can't shake his adolescent emotional attachment to his former boss. Remember, it was Hillary that Morris was always attacking.

This Dick is another "charming" but amoral Clinton ex-operative that lurks in the DC shadows and sewers.....a con man extraordinaire who makes a buck blowing whichever way his own polling enterprise tells him to.

Leni

[TomGuy]

Many such organizations have benign names, but are supported by some of the most subversive groups in existence.

[sheikdetailfeather]

At the start of the war, I noticed that almost every car horn would beep as it came past the MSNBC camera. My brother (Gulf War vet) told me that over there, at intersections Allah decides who makes it through at all. If you get killed, Allah wanted it that way. haha!

[Jackie-O]

I think that number changed because a soldier was MIA during a firefight...his body was found. If I'm not mistaken, its a soldier from Decater, IL..it was all over our local news yesterday.

[prairiebreeze]

Good mooooorning Situation Room! I was out most of the weekend. What blessed news about the recovery of the POW's!! Yippeeee!

Prairie

[Consort]

What does KEYE mean?

[BagCamAddict]

Thank you. His query about not seeing chemical attacks in Israel wasn't confined to just the war time... he meant at any time over the last 10 years. His point was that if Saddam is SELLING the WMD to terrorists, and if Saddam is blatantly supportive of suicide attackers in Palestine (against Israel), then why are all those attacks "low tech." Why haven't there been any NBC attacks in Israel in the last 10 years?

My friend's main beef is with the bigger-picture motivation of Rumsfeld, et. al. and their world plan to spread American democracy far and wide... he also strongly believed that we botched the pre-war diplomacy, such as when Colin Powell used plagerized, outdated, and false documents to make a case to the UN. My arguement for that was that it didn't really matter whether we spent 3 months on diplomacy or 3 years, the outcome was going to be the same: France, Germany, and Russia were always going to be against it because they are complicit, and Saddam wasn't going to become a nice guy EVER. So why not go in now and save tens of thousands of Iraqi lives? He said "I think it would have served the United States better in the long run if we hadn't shoved it down everyone's throats."

I couldn't help but put that response in the category of "I don't care that innocent people are being tortured and murdered, as long as it's not in my backyard." Sometimes you have to do what is right, regardless if the world gets in a tizzy in the short term. Three more years of inspections and/or diplomacy wouldn't have made one iota of difference.

[Jackie-O]

I miss all the good stuff while I'm at work...cannot get any cams. :-(

[Consort]

KEYE must be call letters.

[OldFriend]

LOLOL sounds like your hubby is watching the History Channel, we call it 'all hitler, all the time'.

[Carolina]

I miss all the good stuff while I'm at work...cannot get any cams. :-(

Here, something to get you through the dry spell.