Icreadible LIVE Coverage of action in Bahgdad

[TNGTony]

I don't know if anyone is watching at this time of day, but I've been riveted to the TV for the last several hours watching troops taking Bahgdad. One of the most interesting moments was the Iraqi information minister holding an outside press conference saying that they have repelled the attack and the Americans have been slaughtered while at the same time on a split screen live pictures of U.S. troops in front of the Presidential Palace are being shown.

I don't know if it was a coincidence but exactly at the time that a huge explosion went off on one of the other news feeds the Minister scurried off the press conference!

This is incredible stuff!

See ya
Tony

[jrjcd]

tony, i work the midnight shift at the airport and it's CNN 24/7-keep in mind that the palace that we took over is RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the ministry of information adn just down the street from the hotel where all the reporters left in bagdad are staying...while i suspect he is saying what he is saying at gunpoint, it's wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that "bob" was the ultimate cockeyed optimist!!!!

btw-weren't the pics from INSIDE the presidential palace something to see!!!!

[Richard King]

I don't know if anyone is watching at this time of dayWho needs sleep when you can watch history live.
One of the most interesting moments was the Iraqi information minister holding an outside press conference saying that they have repelled the attack and the Americans have been slaughteredHe stated that they had killed 3/4 of them and that many others were committing suicide. I wonder if he is mixing up sides.

[BobMurdoch]

OK, who knew that the Iraqis would wind up looking stupider than Boris and Natasha from the old Bullwinkle cartoon!

<Bullwinkle's narrator voice> "Meanwhile, back in Baghdad..... Another clueless propagandist tries to keep his story straight..."

[RandyAB]

Man, All I have to say is that Saddam must really love himself. It seems that on every wall is some picture or statue of himself.

[waydwolf]

Originally posted by RandyAB
Man, All I have to say is that Saddam must really love himself. It seems that on every wall is some picture or statue of himself.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Like Adolph Hitler, a self-absorbed egomaniac. Like the short little German putz, Hussein wants everyone to believe that he is their personal hero and saviour. His kind of delusional is the worst sort, who imagine something and because they imagined it, it must be true and instantly becomes true. The kind who might proclaim the sky purple by decree and claim that it really is and what you see is a trick of your eyes. We've seen this sort of ruling idiocy and nonsense all over the third world.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Worse yet, he had weasels from a dozen nations willing to turn a blind eye to his imposition of his insanity in the worst ways on his countrymen just so they could get cheap oil and make money off him selling weapons.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Money that was supposed to have been buying nothing but absolute necessities for Iraqi civilians who it seems have been starved somewhat as food and medicine was hoarded for the Republican Guards, and Husseins terrorist guests.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It reminds me, this moronic refusal to&nbsp;even consider caring about those who are&nbsp;tortured and killed,&nbsp;of Eddie Izzard's observation that as long as they kill lots of their own people, we're fine with that and when they kill enough, we are almost in awe and ready to give them a medal and say, "good show".

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My grandfather described in horrifying detail what his unit found in a death camp in Europe as WWII drew to a close&nbsp;and you know, this kind of thing must be rooted out with ruthless military force, and prosecuted with ruthless legal diligence, and made completely unacceptable among the nations of man&nbsp;with ruthless political aim.

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