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

[militarypolicetom]

I guess we need to petition Fox to put up a audio only feed for the people that want to know the truth and don't have access to the airwaves at all times :-)

[AppyPappy]

Sky showing MPs pounding Tony about post-war Iraq. How come America will run it?

That's better than last week. Last week, we were going to lose the war.

[AppyPappy]

I like the webcam. When I am coding, I can just listen to the background noise.

[Daniel Ramsey]

I wonder if the military has ever consider a mass hovercraft attack up the Tigris? or its feasability?

[Mo1]

Sky showing MPs pounding Tony about post-war Iraq. How come America will run it? Boo hoo.

Aren't these the SAME people that didn't want us going to war?

Don't worry Brits .. you stood by us so far .. we aren't gonna leave your side now

[mewzilla]

You know what amazes me? I caught a part of the briefing this morning and here is a print journalist, a chick who makes her living with words, asking Gen. Brooks how we deal with the Iraqis in that mosque when we can't (her word) fire back. I thought the General's repsonse was terrific, that we can but choose not to fire back. But the way that reporter asked the question left me wondering how in heck she got her day job.

[MEG33]

Love that picture.

[AppyPappy]

But the way that reporter asked the question left me wondering how in heck she got her day job.

Two words: Tee Uts

[Timeout]

Sorry if this is a stoopid question, but I don't understand what the 101st Airborne Division does. Is it chopper air support? Or is it paratroopers?

(I said it was stoopid! Ok, y'all, flame away!)

[oceanperch]

OMG! I dosed off at the keyboard (just got back last night from a 17 hr road trip) and just woke up from a horrible nightmare....my son and I were being eaten alive by river rats! Real ones!

[militarypolicetom]

Down in Taegu.... Our Bn the 728th has been here more than 50 years..... me I've only been here since 99 :-)

[TomGuy]

MSNBC's webcam 6 is running live (no sound). Not showing much except terrain and occasion view of some of the guys. Looks like they are in rest mode at the moment.

mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc6

[Carolina]

But the way that reporter asked the question left me wondering how in heck she got her day job.

Well, my kids use our local paper here for grammar and logic exercises.

[July 4th]

The CBU-105 is one mean mother.

"And there is the Sensor Fuzed Weapon, designed to pulverize tanks, light armor and troops over a vast 30-acre landscape. The weapon is dropped from an airplane, opens in midair and releases 10 projectiles, which float down to the battlefield on tiny parachutes. When the projectiles are close to the ground, rocket motors spin them back up, where each of the 10 releases four warheads the size of soda cans, 40 in all. Each warhead is equipped with infrared and laser sensors. The infrared sensor scans the battlefield looking for preprogrammed heat signatures, like those emitted by tanks and other vehicles. Once a target is located, the laser sensor then guides the warhead into it. If the infrared sensor locates a tank or other vehicle, it fires an armor-piercing slug. But if no vehicles are spotted, the sensor detonates the warhead just above the ground to spray the battlefield with thousands of lethal fragments, or steel rain."

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/cbu-97.htm

[mewzilla]

Not going there. Wouldn't be prudent :)

[Cboldt]

No such thing as a stupid question. Well, there is, but your's wasn't one (-:=

I'll hang back and wait for somebody who knows, to answer. Or, I may go look it up. For use around the RG (Medina and Hammurabi Divisions), I beleiev they are "close air" support via attack helicopter, and maybe fixed wing (A-10)

[clouda]

Love that picture!!!

[mewzilla]

As in lack of? Or maybe your paper is better than either of our local wastes of newsprint.

[Mo1]

asking Gen. Brooks how we deal with the Iraqis in that mosque when we can't (her word) fire back

These are the same people that *itched and whinned that we would be bombing women and children in Bagdad and then when we didn't .. they then asked why haven't be flatten Bagdad yet

BTW .. I really like Gen Brooks, he knows how to handle these idiots

[Carolina]

The CBU-105 is one mean mother.

Wow! Who makes these?