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Big Military Strike Not Soon Expected
Associated Press ^ | 10-5-01 | PAULINE JELINEK

Posted on 10/05/2001 2:30:33 PM PDT by MichelleWSC

WASHINGTON (AP) - Administration and European officials are signaling that a major military action may not come anytime soon, even as U.S. troops, warplanes and ships gather in the Gulf region.

Meanwhile, Taliban soldiers were reported Friday to be taking heavy weapons into the mountains of Afghanistan to await an assault.

There were growing signs that the coalition the United States is assembling for the anti-terrorism campaign is still struggling to decide exactly what to do


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To: MichelleWSC
HERE'S a thread for you to consider.
81 posted on 10/05/2001 3:08:33 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: American Soldier
If CNN had their way...we would all be mocha colored hermaphrodites pledging allegiance to the United Nations.
82 posted on 10/05/2001 3:08:36 PM PDT by awgie2
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To: madison46
Your right. I'm tired of it as well, but you can bet I'm going to hold the Admin to its promises. And you can make me eat my words anytime ;-) If I have to eat them, we are probably kicking somebodys life force to death....and that is what I want.

Agreed.

83 posted on 10/05/2001 3:09:21 PM PDT by SunStar
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To: all
The danger of waiting is that people are drifting already, and GWB cannot get this suffle of public opinion to rise twice.
84 posted on 10/05/2001 3:09:34 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: Heisenburger
Is (1) Bush not attacking because he is a coward, or because (2) Bush is getting his ducks in order. I choose the later.
85 posted on 10/05/2001 3:10:04 PM PDT by MagnusMat
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
If this coalition gets any more confusing, we won't know for whom to cheer.

Let alone who to cheer, there will be no one left to attack. WORLD PEACE maybe what they are going after :P.

86 posted on 10/05/2001 3:10:29 PM PDT by Cool Guy
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To: MichelleWSC
"When you least expect it
You're detected
Bombs are on the way......"


SMILE, You're on laser-guided cannon"
87 posted on 10/05/2001 3:10:37 PM PDT by lds23
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To: MichelleWSC
I'm really astonished how many people are jumping the gun on this. Enough Monday morning quarterbacking. Bush is railroading Muslim nations into assisting in ensuring the total anhialation of Bin Laden and his people. He's NOT telling these states he won't take swift and decisive action against them once Bin Laden's finished and we've uncovered evidence justifying bringing the full brunt of our resources (and the international coalition's) against them as well (not to mention if they so much as look at us the wrong way). And rest assured, Saddam won't survive this war either.

One at a time, guys. And let's do it right. Fools rush in. I believe Bin Laden's network is completely hamstrung right now and the Taliban are doomed. Time's on our side, not their's. They may be able to pull off a few relatively small acts of terror, but nothing on the scale we've already witnessed. If they were capable of effectively unleashing bio/chemical weapons on a large scale against us, they should have done it before we thoroughly dialed up our intelligence and domestic security. For Bin Laden to have succeeded in this game, he needed to hit a number of cities hard and suddenly to really paralyze our economy and our ability to act. Now his remaining cells are in pieces, his funds frozen or else otherwise useless to him, the Taliban are defecting, the Northern Alliance is advancing on Kabul, the Afganistan borders are closed, and the military might of America and her allies are closing in with single-minded purpose. As FDR's speech writer so eloquently coined, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." The war on terrorism is in excellent hands.

88 posted on 10/05/2001 3:11:55 PM PDT by fire and forget
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To: MichelleWSC
Everyday it looks more clearer that Bush is going to do nothing!

Upon what information or great personal insight do you offer this statement?

And please also enlighten us with the details of your plan only three weeks after the fact? What coalition would you have built? What Army Divisions, Navy Battle Groups and USAF air wings would you have mobilized for the attack? Where would they be based? How long would it have taken them to get in position? And after they are forward how do you supply and sustain them with bullets, missiles, food, jet fuel, maps, intelligence, etc, etc? Do you really think the last adminsitration left anything near "go to war" stockage levels on those essentials?

Get a life. Instead of complaining because you are impatient to send someone else into battle be grateful that you have a President who has chosen to surround himself with a cast of professionals. They'll do the right thing. At the right time. And not a day sooner.

89 posted on 10/05/2001 3:13:57 PM PDT by O6ret
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To: mombonn
My feeling is, Mombonn, if I knew what was going to happen next, probably so would the Taliban! Let President Bush do his work. He surely looks good to me.
90 posted on 10/05/2001 3:14:35 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: MichelleWSC
Wanna bet, Michelle?
91 posted on 10/05/2001 3:14:51 PM PDT by GLDNGUN
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To: steveo
I don't know if it's just me but I think I would wait for the darkness of a new moon.

Yes, my thoughts too. We went into Panama when there was no moon. The same happened when we went after the Iraqis. In addition, please correct me if I'm wrong, I seem to remember that Ramadan was also going to be a problem in the war with Iraq, so we had to do what we were going to do before it started. By the way, when are the next moonless nights through November and when is Ramadan?

92 posted on 10/05/2001 3:15:12 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: fire and forget
So true! The fact that Bush is not just aimlessly shooting missles is a clear sign that he intends to win this and win it big even if it takes a while.
93 posted on 10/05/2001 3:16:22 PM PDT by MagnusMat
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To: fire and forget
nicely stated at 88
94 posted on 10/05/2001 3:17:04 PM PDT by eureka!
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To: SamAdams76
He couldn't care less about satisfying the morons sitting at home with a bowl of popcorn in their laps, hoping to see some "bombing action" on CNN on a boring Friday night.

Have you been peaking in my windows again:?

95 posted on 10/05/2001 3:17:29 PM PDT by Pete
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To: dirtboy
Go sit on a block of ice. I guess you forget all the times that the American military screwed up by reacting too quickly or by bowing to popular opinion.

You are probably correct, but, no matter what, SOMEthing in the way of attack, whether consequential or not, whether effective or not, had better be done before they hit us big again. If that happens, we have serious problems, not the least (and not the greatest) of which being GWB is political toast.

96 posted on 10/05/2001 3:17:38 PM PDT by jammer
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To: MichelleWSC
Bush has a cat doesn't he ? I love to watch cats catch and kill mice. They are never, ever in a rush. The patiently wait for the mouse to make a mistake and they pounce. Then they play with it until they are bored and finally kill it.

If these guys were inside our borders we would be surrounding them and waiting them out. Is it a bad strategy if we get ourselves in a posistion where bin Laden cannot have access to cash, has no outside communications, no allies that can assist him, we purchase the favor of the Taliban with 300 million, we get closer to his hidden cells in the US and we slowly tighten the noose on the political, economic and military fronts ?

As long as we control the board, so to speak, whats the rush ?

97 posted on 10/05/2001 3:18:10 PM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: fire and forget
Good insight. People need to understand the GWB is an extremely astute politician (unlike Bush 41)... 43 understands that he has put enormous political capital on the table with the war against terrorism... if he fails to protect his right flank, he'll be toast in 2004.
98 posted on 10/05/2001 3:19:00 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: mwl1
GWB cannot get this soufflé of public opinion to rise twice.

How can you be sure he doesn't want to see the soufflé totally collapse? Today he's focused on tax cuts. It doesn't sound like he's on a wartime footing anymore to me.

Contrast this with his father's "rallying the troops" mode before Desert Storm. I remember it well. From the time he decided to go to war soon after Saddam invaded, he gave a new speech every day equating Saddam with Hitler and the like. None of the speeches from August of 1990 to January of 1991 were about tax cuts (maybe because he already knew he was about to go back on his "read my lips" promise and raise them instead, but that's another kettle of fish).

99 posted on 10/05/2001 3:19:19 PM PDT by longleaf
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To: Cool Guy
Good comment. Thamk you.
100 posted on 10/05/2001 3:21:38 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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