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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

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Special thanks to An.American.Expatriate for staring the daily threads, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, Ragtime Cowgirl for her Exclusive Live Transcription Service™, and, of course, Belly Girl...

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Mhking's links:

Abu Dhabi TV (Real - Arabic)
BBC/Baghdad Cam(Real)
BBC News 24 (Real - 56)
BBC News 24 (Real - BB)
CablePulse 24 - Toronto (WMV)
CBS/Baghdad Cam (Real)
CBC RadioOne - Toronto (QT)
CN8 Philadelphia (Real)
CNN+ (Spain) (WMV)
CNN Baghdad Cam (WMV)
CNN Radio (WMV)
CNN via KGW/Portland (Real - down)
DW-TV Berlin (Real - In German Where Available/Some programming in English)
ITN News Channel - London (Real - Audio Only)
MSNBC/NBC (WMV/Feeds page)
MSNBC (WMV - Audio Only - Headlines & Breaking News)
N-TV Berlin (Real - In German Where Available)
NWCN, Seattle/Portland (Real - down)
Sky News (56K - WMV/Copy/Paste)
Sky News (BB - WMV/Copy-Paste)
SNN6 Sarasota, FL (Real)
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMV - Fox Affiliate)

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[Poser]

"Is there any other way?"

Fitted sheets.

[aloysius89]

It bugs me that people whose business is words don't seem to know what words mean.

Symbolic... yeah, right.

The Detroit Free Press reported the Baghdad Airport was under siege. What could that possibly mean? They also described the battle for Baghdad as erupting as if it were unplanned.

BAH, HUMBUG!

[AFPhys]

>>>Yesterday at FreeRepublic, in this thread there was discussion about Tony's pic in his FOX bio looking like a High School picture. He just announced that he updated the pic in his bio.

Get right out of town!! That was me and two23 who were complaining about that! How funny is that??

HELLO TONY!!! Say Hi to your fans!

[Timeout]

Hey, Poser.

I've been outta pocket all afternoon...babysitting. She's taking a nap now...any big developments?

I tried all the cams. Looks like all connections are down. Have there been any BagCam shots on TV?

Thanks to anyone who can give me a brief news bulletin!

[CasearianDaoist]

Gosh...

[Consort]

I found a working webcam.

...Only Saddam's webcam is working.

[fiesti]

I have not been able to watch TV or sit at PC since last night. Has anyone seen Ollie North? I have not seen him since last night when they lost contact with him

[Tree of Liberty]

Who's this Tony guy everyone's talking about?

[POGIFFMOO]

Gee, I thought he was fixated on Monty Python (and now for something completely different......)

[umbagi]

I've even gone through all the Universal Remote device codes, and can't find one that works.

Come on, Achmed!

[brydic1]

I believe that Saddam was convinced that pick up trucks with mounted machine guns was the way to defeat the US Forces since it worked so well in Somalia. He did not reckon that under Bush unlike Clinton we would not take away the support of heavy armor, artillery and a full array of Air support for our forces. In other words, Saddam was not dealing with an incompetent leader this time.

[Poser]

Not much new here. Lots of booms in Baghdad. All cams went down about a half an hour ago. We're still argueing about whether Saddam is dead.

The best new stuff is the Chemical Ali is Dead Iraq Shave verses (like Burma Shave signs).

Fox has been showing their "exclusive video" over and over.

[TigersEye]

How the heck did he take over and hold the country for 30 years if he's that militarily stupid?

You start with gun control--to disarm the populace. Then you create a band of thugs (feydaheen/gestapo ATF/DEA) to enforce order. Then you can starve the people and use the nation's oil wealth (institute socialized medicine, tax top 10% wage earners, create hate thought crimes, cripple education at its foundation and throw money at it as a cure) for your personal use. Make the people dependent on you for even their daily food.

Hello, Hitlery! Seig heil! (Welfare victory!)

[Tree of Liberty]

According to his former mistress, he watches "The Godfather" all the time.

[Timeout]

Have the cable channels shown a live BagCam since we lost ours?

[johnnyd]

Most Excellent!!!

[Socratic]

I see Channel Up and Down, Volume Up and Down and a whole lot of numbers.

[umbagi]

Have the cable channels shown a live BagCam since we lost ours?

Good observation... I don't believe they have. The last one I saw on FNC was the same pic I was seeing on NTV at the time.

[brydic1]

Yes, he was on for a short time today, I think around noon. He still sounded very tired and a little down since he worked the medivac helos and their very quite a few casualties. He was full of admiration for his Marines.

[Green]

Since we have a little lull here..thought I would post a link about the rebuilding going in on Afghanistan:

http://www.centcom.mil/CentcomNews/Stories/Operation%20Enduring%20Freedom/04_03/4.htm