[Hugh Akston]

there is no reason on god's green earth why we have not acted by now.

I can think of a few reasons, such as getting the right assets into the right place, and performing the reconaissance that the field commanders think is appropriate.

[HiJinx]

Well said, Hugh.
It took us from December '41 to Aug '42 to respond with the Doolittle raid.
It took from Aug '90 to Jan '91 to respond in Kuwait/Iraq.
Why are we expecting this to happen so quickly now?

[dep]

I can think of a few reasons, such as getting the right assets into the right place, and performing the reconaissance that the field commanders think is appropriate.

if in this day and age this is the best we can do, then we've managed to catch up with the brits at about the time of the boer war. it does not take any field commanders or resources in place to transform saddam's palaces into miniatures of the current world trade center. it takes no troop movements to wipe out saddam's industrial and electricity generation capability, as well as every military asset he has. it does not take three weeks to get into a war, and if it does, then the war is lost already.

dep

[StriperSniper]

Plus trying to short circuit the second wave that will probably follow our attack.

[Aggie Mama]

Remember what Bush said in the speech before Congress...some of our victories will never be known. We live in a voyeuristic and microwave society -- everyone wants to see everything NOW. It ain't gonna happen that way.