***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 14 - LIVE THREAD***

[budman_2001]

US Marine platoon to Ollie North on live sat-phone (unsolicited message to viewers):

Fox Rocks!

Message back from budman---

YO!

[JLS]

I can get the CBS cam via AOL on dialup.

[TigersEye]

There is also one here, for CBS. Top, middle of the page. That works for me too and has sound.

[SamAdams76]

"Clearly, I am going to have a very bad day today."

[hobson]

maps

[TigersEye]

I'm afraid I don't know Baier.

[spectr17]

Geraldo is the resident cartographer.

LOL, Was

[two23]

Maps on the right side of this FNC web page; look for drop down menu.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79630,00.html

[Aaron0617]

Wonder why this reporter on CNN right now isn't wearing his flack jacket or helmet? He's in the middle of a battle

[Toskrin]

Good maps here - try the Baghdad tactical pilotage map.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html

[JLS]

I bookmarked this map:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iraq_wall_det_2003.jpg

[Xphantasos]

I really "Dhue" love our brave young men.

[Mo1]

LOL .. Belly Girl?

[Ymani Cricket]

"When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a Boche will get him eventually, and the h-ll with that idea. The h-ll with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one. We'll win this war but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans we've got more guts than they have."
-Patton

[spectr17]

Sabertooth's Iraq weather & maps

[Cboldt]

Karbala fell in a flash...Baghdad may go faster.

Ollie's group came in from the east, Karbala is "coming in from the west," and AFAIK, is still "hot."

[two23]

That's a keeper....thanks (I'm a map junkie: X-Drafter)

[SoldiersGirl]

okay..
I left for 5 minutes, then spent 10 minutes lost in days 12 and 14 or 13 or somewhere.
I'm waiting for tweedledee and tweedledum to lead me to the chesire cat

[StevieB]

We could see coalition tanks in Baghdad tomorrow.

How could this be possible. Those tanks are stalled in the desert, waiting for extra drivers and more food for everyone! Did someone screw up and forget to tell them that there was no possible way they could move -- except in retreat?

Time will tell what the original plan was, but I feel what has happened has the makings of a brilliant military action. The initial rapid push towards Baghdad basically forced the Republican Guard divisions to stick in one place -- in front of Baghdad with limited room to move down. Once they were pinned in one place, it became easy to start decimating them with B52 runs.

Like they used to say on the A-Team: "Don't you love it when a plan comes together?"

[spectr17]

Sorry, I'm still adjusting from Fox Flyover on big screen