***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 17 - LIVE THREAD***

EVERYWHERE!!! | 5 APR 03 | An.American.Expatriate

[SoldiersGirl]

Yeah I did, I slept really well too, so I'm up nice and early.
I swear, I really do leave here.

[maica]

Thanks for the correction. I took a brief 'timeout' from TV last night, and just realized what i was looking at this morning, while I was reading this thread. Still thrilling even in rerun mode. ;^)

[cajungirl]

Either don't tuck in the bottom of the sheet or just tuck it in but Dont do the nice spiffy corners,,,only democrats make beds that way.

[Green]

My fav thing that Shep said to Rick last night was:

Hey Rick, if you had AP now you would have learned 4 minutes ago that we are now in Baghdad. But if you had Fox News there you would have learned it about 2 hrs ago, but that is a different issue altogether.

LOL!

[TomGuy]

MSNBC now....Cpl. Alex Rivera...great interview....must see......

[Timeout]

Shep gets the best-quote-of-the-war award.

Last night he was talking to Rick Leventhal, showing pics of Greg's unit rolling into Baghdad, and he said he was getting emails from people asking how they go to the bathroom out there.

Shep looked at the cam with that bug-eyed look he gets, and yelled:

"ARE YOU LOOKING AT WHAT HE'S STANDING ON? DO YOU HAVE A CAT?!"

LOLOLOLOLOL!

[Damagro]

HOSPITAL CORNERS!! I love that term and first post of the day. You know I do hospital corners on my beds to the amusement of my children who think it is a sign that I have obsessive compulsive disorder!


Nothing wrong with being OCD , most productive people have it to some degree. Hospital corners are not the same as washing your hands 300 times a day

[Carolina]

Is that the nut who said we weren't even in the country?

Yup. And called us all kinds of names.

[Catspaw]

Is that the nut who said we weren't even in the country?

Yup. And as we were going into Baghdad International Airport, he said we were 100 miles (kilometers) away...and today he said the Iraqis had retaken SADDAM International Airport.

I think of him as comic relief.

[POGIFFMOO]

And for that Fox is accused of "excessive patriotic pornography."


And me without a pornograph!

[Green]

Yes...that would be Baghdad Bob.

[ztiworoh]

Good Mornin'

ANything big happen overnight??

[mystery-ak]

US Army pay

standard base pay

BATH..according to rank and dependents

BAS....if dep don't live near base

separation allowance.per mo..$100.

Hazard duty pay.per mo..$150

Hostile fire pay.per mo..$150

Combat tax Exclusion...(not FICA)

[nicmarlo]

Someone spotted an Iraqi (probably fedayeen) on top of a farm building using flag signals to another unit.

Last night, Mo saw, several times, flags in round about; Mo was thinking the flags (and horns honking) were being used as some kind of signal....this was occurring just about the time when Greg Kelly and Ollie had entered the city

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin' ! . . .

[Catspaw]

Gee, no--unless you count the 3rd Infantry and the Marines going into Baghdad.

[Carolina]

And me without a pornograph!

Awwwww.

[BagCamAddict]

Qusay dead, Saddam wounded, according to:

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030403-101300-9688r

Snippets from the article:

Strikes by F-17s fighters and ship-launched cruise missiles wounded Saddam and is also believed to have killed his son Qusay, 37, who was being groomed as Saddam's successor, according to half a dozen former and serving U.S. officials.

A senior administration official told UPI that Saddam had suffered two burst ear drums, and "was bleeding from the nose and mouth." This source added that Saddam was so disoriented by concussion damage that he was "in a vegetative state" for hours after the strike.

Another administration official said that Saddam was "definitely alive" after the strike and appeared on Friday, March 21, wearing glasses because of concussive damage to the "capillaries of his retinas."

[Green]

You're kidding, right?

[mware]

1.Greg Kelly from FOX first into Baghdad.

2. Marines knocking down a wall, where stuff is said to have been hidden inside the wall of a school.