FOX: Huge Blast in Baghdad. CNN interrupts press conference.

More to come.

So I switched to Fox and they were leading with a "huge" bomb blast issue right in front of hotel.

All FOX reporters there reprtedly hit the dirt!

hmmmm suppose Gen. Kimmett got a wake up call to his "everything is peachy" speech?

and saying,"so you think it's all calm huh?" these aren't a bunch of Hollywood stand-ins who simply follow the script :crazy:

oh shit, it was a missile?! :scared:

prevail". Did you hear that? It was the reporter on FOX!

pLease keep us up to date. gracias

can keep the good news from getting out, the bad news will prevail.
Unfriggenbelievable!

I was just surfin back and forth between CNN and FOX when I heard that on FOX!

The reporter in Baghdad downplayed it big time. Nothing to see here, all is well... :eyes:

to push the good news. The hit on the Sheraton put an end to that BS quickly. Seems the Iraqis understand the slanted news the world is getting from these liars.

As horrible as it all is, there is a certain black humor in the image of the Fox reporters diving for cover mid-reassuring speech.

and had ro rewind it (Tivo)to be sure I heard it right. WTF? 'Orwellian' kept coming to mind

he started that statement exactly? Was it "they understand that information is key" or something like that? It was the beginning of the comment that made the rest hit home with me. All I could think of was "truth" from FOX? Who is this masked reporter and I wonder how much longer he'll have his job?

Let us hope that Orwellianism takes a permanent vacation after November.

Call the War President and tell him someone brought it on

That's all I can say. Wow. So True.

A War President's gotta take a vacation sometime, you know?

resident Bush leads a tour of Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas with wildlife conversation leaders and sportsmen leaders, Thursday, April 8, 2004. Pictured with the President from left, are Jeffrey Crane, Director of Policy and Programs, Congressional Sportsmen Foundation, Bud Pidgeon, President, U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, and Michael Rogers, Safari Club International Senior writer. (AP Photo/White House, Eric Draper, HO)

I mean, how much more obvious can it be that the guy isn't in charge? What do they have to do, show him on the floor doodling with crayons?

Nice reference.

I think he's in his pickup truck showing hunters around the ranch today.

Motherfucker should be in the goddamned White House. Irresponsible traitor.

He should be incarcerated at Leavenworth.

Nazi whore family fortune...just him and his *wits*
He'd starve within a month if left to his own intelligence.

"Pockets of resistance?? I'd take pockets of acceptance at this point"

...on the ground. They were there on the scene. FAUX news has declared this missile fire just an effort to be a nuisance, and is not to be taken very seriously. Nothing to see here folks, move on.

when the nusiance kid next door shoots rockets at my roof just to be a pain in the ass.

before you can get back to counting your oil money. That's the real bitch.

I have people to count my oil money for me! and they have people who count it for them.

A loud explosion was heard in Baghdad this morning near the Sheraton Hotel. Meanwhile, the U.S. military paused in its offensive against insurgents in Fallujah to allow for talks with city leaders, but reports from the scene said sporadic fighting continues. Also, a general returning from Kut told CNN that U.S. forces have been engaging in heavy fighting to retake the city


http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/09/iraq.main/index.html

Mortar Attack in Central Baghdad, No Casualties
2 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A mortar round landed close to Baghdad's Sheraton Hotel on Friday, causing a thunderous explosion that echoed across the city center, but there were no casualties, a Reuters correspondent at the scene said.


The mortar landed in the grounds of a house near the hotel, sending up a large plume of smoke.


U.S. forces had been on high alert for major guerrilla attacks in Baghdad on Friday to coincide with the first anniversary of the ousting of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).


Many foreign contractors, businesspeople, diplomats and journalists are based in the Sheraton and the nearby Palestine Hotel.

Bush and Co have made sure that no real news gets out from Iraq. Reporters have to clear everything with US military. Just watched a news clip from the BBC. Their reporter on the ground said that area around Sherton was a closed area today. US forces had announced that the area was completely shut off today and anyone entering area without permit would be shot on sight. yeah, but remember according to US military, Baghdad is under control and calm.

Also, no reports of any celebrations marking the one year anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam. Strange, if the Iraqi people were so happy to be "liberated" why no celebration????

"That bastard the American Minister of Defense Rumsfeld, and I won't say shamelessly, because they don't know what shame means. These are criminals. The whole word can hear the warning sirens. This criminal sitting in the White House is a pathetic criminal and his Defense Minister deserves to be beaten. These criminals lie to the world because they are criminals by nature and conditioning. They consider this a military site! Shame on you! You will forever be shamed! You have ruined the reputation of the American people in the most terrible way! Shame on you! And we will destroy you!"

"Faltering forces of infidels cannot just enter a country of 26 million people and lay besiege to them! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Rumsfeld has been saying, he was talking about his own forces. Now even the American command is under siege.

"They (the U.S.) are deceiving their soldiers and their officers that aggressing against Iraq and invading Iraq will be like a picnic. This is a very stupid lie they are telling their soldiers, what they are facing is a definite death."

"The shock has backfired on them. They are shocked because of what they have seen. No one received them with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Now, the game has been exposed. Awe will backfire on them. This is the boa snake. We will extend it further and cut it the appropriate way."

"W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see
that he is brought to trial"

"I think the British nation has never been faced with a tragedy like this fellow (Blair)."

"We're going to drag the drunken junkie nose of Bush through Iraq's desert, him and his follower dog Blair...There are 26 million Saddams in Iraq"

Not so funny now.
Not so funny at all.

He nailed it, didn't he ?


:hippie:

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) is greeted by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, April 8, 2004. n Powell, who served two tours in Vietnam, said Iraq (news - web sites) is not 'swamp that is going to devour' the United States. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

It's much more like one of these:

Where is that photo from, it seems familiar?

And I think I saw Muad Dib on television yesterday...

Sandworm!

buncha neocon thugs. Way to go boys. Way to waltz us into another Quagmire.

and related (I think) to the highway is the attack (and blowing up) of a convoy including oil transport.

Am I missing any of this morning's highlights - seperate events?

How tragic for all - more loss of life, more destruction, and yet the president keeps up his pace of 40% of his time in office spent on vacation/respite at the ranch, camp david or up in maine. Wasn't he the one pushing "personal responsibility" in his last campaign - yet he can't take the responsibility for his policies and at least treat things as very somber and serious and in need of constant TOP attention?

No matter how loudly his defenders yell things like "It's not the President's job to find you a job" and "What is he supposed to do...go over there and fight alongside the Marines?" and "It's Clinton's Fault for (insert any current problem in America)"...

By November, enough people will see he passes the buck on everything and even if they can't admit he is lying, they will have to admit he doesn't seem to give a damn about the real problems.

The bad news is becoming overwhelming. I don't see how anyone other than the terminally stupid will vote for him if this keeps going the way it is. I expect the economy to take a nose dive buy the end of summer too.