[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sources say U.S. shipping tanks to Gulf

[Straight Vermonter]

I had a political science teacher who said that mobilizing an army was so expensive that leaders felt once it was done they HAD to fight. Seems we are in, at least, the initial stages of mobilization.

[Chad Fairbanks]

the Mother of All Battles

Can't the guy come up with something new? Of course, this could explain why the libs like him - he recycles... ;0)

[chance33_98]

Tanks? We don't need no stinkin' tanks. What we need is a pretty mushroom cloud from whence the bright flash will be burned into the retinas of the rest of the arab world. Or maybe a few stealth bombers with enough daisy cutters to level bugdead once and for all. Sodomy WhosInsane will probably be hiding out in his rebuilt babylon though, so we better hit that too. Though I would not put it past him to flee just before it starts and hide in mecca.

[chance33_98]

"We have prevailed before and we will also prevail in Umm al-Ma'arik (the Mother of All Battles) in the end, God willing," Iraq's state television quoted Saddam as saying in an open letter to the Iraqi people.

Paging Michael Newdow...some leader said God! Oh wait, you only complain about America. Maybe if you spent more time serving in the military defending it you might appreciate it more.

[1Old Pro]

tick tock, tick tock

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeah -

I saw several of those trains going down that direction a few days ago.

Figured it'd be better not to make too big a deal over it at the time .... But now, it appears to be a nice "signal" of increased determination from the WH.

[American in Israel]

We have prevailed before and we will also prevail in Umm al-Ma'arik (the Mother of All Battles) in the end...

One would think last time he would have learned that he is not fighting mothers, a normal Islamic target. Seems Jihadists do not do so well when fighting men...

[Magnum44]

This is the sign that most here have been impatiently waiting for. Nov, Dec, Jan at the latest.

[rightwing2]

Bush sending heavy M-1 tanks to the Gulf to fight Saddam? This must really be embarrassing for the Chief of Staff of the Army and those other DoD/Army unilateral disarmers who continue to sing the siren song that "tanks are obsolete". What ever happened to Bush's secret plan to drop the 82nd airborne on Baghdad to accept the 425,000 man Iraqi Army's surrender on behalf of the US with the aid of a few thousand light infantry Special Forces troops. Why aren't we sending our Stryker armored car brigade to Iraq for battle testing. The answer-because the Stryker light armored car brigades would be utterly decimated by Saddam's heavy tank forces, but better now than later when the entire US Army is reduced to a tankless army of 1930s era armored cars armed primarily with 50 cal machine guns.

[RightWhale]

the Iraqis would emerge victorious from any showdown with their enemies.

Without a doubt. Iraq will emerge without Saddam, without the Ba'ath party, and with fresh international contracts and a lot of new foreign investment. Happy times are just around the corner.

[mhking]

The United States will ship tanks and heavy armor to the Middle East this month as President Bush tries to garner domestic support for efforts to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Let's try that sentence again:

The United States will ship more tanks and heavy armor to the Middle East this month as President Bush tries to garner domestic support for efforts to tells Congress and the American people what we will do to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

[reagan_fanatic]

"We have prevailed before and we will also prevail in Umm al-Ma'arik
(the Mother of All Battles) in the end, God willing,"

Ever notice how every boast, every threat these diaper-heads make
against the United States always ends with 'God willing...?'

I think the English translation should be 'If we're lucky..'

[VaBthang4]

""We have prevailed before and we will also prevail in Umm al-Ma'arik (the Mother of All Battles) in the end, God willing," Iraq's state television quoted Saddam as saying in an open letter to the Iraqi people."

This statement alone confirms the absolute need to remove Saddam....nobody is that stupid....he has to be a deranged monster.

[Senator_Palpatine]

Goood...everything is proceeding as planned.Baghdad will soon be under my control..."

[PhilDragoo]

We are shipping tanks and Daschle is stuffing more socks in his shoes and underwear.

Saddam is telling the people "We will win" and none has the balls to say, "What you mean, 'We', Camel's Rump?"

(Russia is rumored to have offered him asylum, and German engineers designed his deep bunker complex.)

Tariq Aziz tells Kofi the Klymer that Iraq is considering allowing inspectors.

Tariq, you disgusting Camel Dropping, we aren't getting jacked around in those little convoys of UNSCOM four-wheelers.

When we want to examine a site, we'll be calling it:

BOMB DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

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