Secret US plan for Iraq war

The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 12/02/2001 | Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver

[OwenKellogg]

Damn, Pokey...it's not a secret anymore.

[Chapita]

Piss on the European Union and the United Nations; thet are not responsible for the protection of the American sovereignty!

[Pokey78]

I'm sure before I read it, it passed from the hands of the Observer/Guardian editors into the clutches of their anti-American friends. So by now it is old news.

[codebreaker]

Southeast Asia replay with no jungles to hide in this time?

[JD86]

Now, if the Russians just stay on the sidelines, we can get the job done.

[codeword]

Piss on the European Union and the United Nations...!

Would you like to take care of this this personally?

[carpio]

Piss on the European Union and the United Nations; thet are not responsible for the protection of the American sovereignty!

Precisely my first thought. Well said.

[Dog Gone]

There is no chance that we could count in Iraqi opposition groups for any meaningful assistance. It has been crushed.

[Sueann]

That's exactly what I was going to say - It's not a secret any more.

[The Vast Right Wing]

BUMP, I say we bomb and if the Europeans don't like it let them do something about it.

[a merkin]

Although I empathize with your anti-globalist senetiments, I wish that some posters could contain themselves. There's no reason to wet yourself, old girl.

It is the language used on these threads not the content which has the servers at some employers, schools and other institutions blocking out this site.

[TWRepublican]

huh? secret plan for war posted on the internet?

[Incorrigible]

[Incorrigible]

[alloysteel]

I say, that just for the general good of mankind, Saddam Hussein should be deposed, whether he was involved in September 11 or not. And every one of his neighbors should be willing to join in on the effort. Sooner or later, Saddam will commit the country of Iraq to something so horrendous, so outrageous, that the world will have no choice but to go in after him, with resulting collateral damage far greater than a coup engineered by the efforts of the US, and involving some expatriate Iraqi dissidents.

[Arleigh]

There is no chance that we could count in Iraqi opposition groups for any meaningful assistance. It has been crushed.

And if any were left, they'd be idiots for trusting us after we left them high and dry so many times in the past...

[mrb1960]

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TELL YOU PEOPLE. DON'T POST MILITARY INFORMATION HERE YOU HORSE'S PUTTIE!

[okie01]

"There is no chance that we could count in Iraqi opposition groups for any meaningful assistance. It has been crushed."

Visibly, yes. The nominal government-in-exile, the Iraqi National Congress, under-funded by and unable to trust the Clinton administration, is reduced to begging for crumbs. Beyond posturing, they are certainly incapable of mounting any meaningful resistance effort.

On the other hand, the Shiites in the South continue to make themselves troublesome. Witness the mortar attack on one of Saddam's palaces only last week. The Iranis are evidently giving active support to these activities.

In the North, the Kurds have gone to ground but you can bet that the Kurds continue to nurse their grudges and await only the opportunity to slit some Husseini throats.

An effective internal resistance movement is something the Clinton administration never could have brought off. Nobody trusted him. But the Bush administration -- with a re-vitalized CIA, active support from the Turks and at least tacit support from Iran -- may well be capable of generating some sparks.