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[OldFriend]

Saber rattling never phases Saddam Hussein......he has a death wish and hopefully we WILL oblige.

[snopercod]

I sure wish I could have been a fly on the wall during the Bush family father-and-son conversation regarding Iraq.

[Mahone]

No, not that, not 25,000 British troops! What's next? The comfy pillow?????????????

[vbmoneyspender]

The request for such a large number of troops is unprecedented in peacetime.

Peacetime?

[Eternal_Bear]

How many more soldiers will be needed if Iran joins in the fun? I feel a draft.

[Steve Eisenberg]

The Observer is a leftist paper. Why is it that I can't find a story similar to this at the web site of Britian's best paper, the Telegraph?

I think that opponents of British-American friendship are floating this 25,000 number in order to discredit any cooperation.

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[BJClinton]

In a separate development sources say more than 5,000 US fighting vehicles, mothballed in Kuwait since the end of the Gulf War, have quietly been overhauled

If I'm correct, some 1200+ of those would be Abrams receiving an upgrade to the M1A3 variant.

[recalcitrant]

Blair to Bush: "I'll see your 25,000 and raise you two missile cruisers, a satellite, and two partial carriers groups, deployable by next thursday, Shall I bring the tea?"
Bush to Tony: "You bring the tea, and WE will provide the TOAST. Heh heh."
Tony Blair has NEVER been so popular.
Give him another two or three years with Bush and he might turn into a conservative, of historical stature.

[taxtruth]

Bush is full of himself.Americans are all to STUPID to learn for themselves to know better.They don't even know that America is a REPUBLIC and NOT even a democracy.The world is laughing at a country that dosen't have a clue at what type of government they really have.Read your Federalist Papers America because BUSH can't read.AIRHEADS!Please!tell Americans where in the "CONSTITUTION"the word "quoted" "DEMOCRACY" the founders qouted and founded.?The founders hated it!

[RightWhale]

24 Longbow Apache attack helicopters

These are equipped with the latest high-capacity armor killing spud guns. Saddam has no defense.

[Don Myers]

My first thought was, does the UK have this many people?

[Hugin]

The request for such a large number of troops is unprecedented in peacetime.

Peacetime? Hasn't anybody told them there's a war on?

[Red Jones]

we still don't know how many US troops this might involve. Iraq has been said by some journalists to be strong in weapons of mass destruction, of course chemical & biological types.

[glockmeister40]

From a military standpoint, Iraq is not an easy place to invade. Kuwait might be an ally, but you'd still have to bring all your forces up the gulf. It would be difficult to bring that much stuff overland from turkey. It might be better to just go after basra and the surrounding oil fields. Start sending the oil for free back to the US. This would cut off most, if not all, of Iraq's income. You can't buy or build weapons without money.

[My Favorite Headache]

September 11 brought the UK fully behind us. It looked like Blair was moving into The White House he was here so much. Now we have people in the UK calling this "Peace Time", and just wanting to get out of the war we are in Afghanistan. I believe when Big Time shows Blair what is up...Iraq will be glassed like we never could imagine by Summer.Then the people in Parliment and the doubters will shut up because I have a feeling the evidence is something that is going to shake Blair up.

[monkeyshine]

One Minister described those who had questioned Blair's policy of fully backing a US military campaign as 'appeasers'.

The gall of these leftist slime to call those who want action against terrorists, dictators and brutal thugs "appeasers"! The appeasers are those who will leave terrorists, thugs, dictators and brutal murderers in power. Like the British PM Chamberlain gave Hitler Czechoslovakia, these British MP's are appeasers to the worst elements in the world -- the Saddams, Arafat's and other brutal murderous Nazi slimeballs.

Yes, I said Nazis. Saddam and Arafat both were trained in leadership and ideology by a self-professed Nazi lover who recruited and aided Hitler and encouraged the expansion of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. Saddam and Arafat are both clinging to this antiquated genocidal ideology, and as such must be destroyed for the betterment of the free world and the people who suffer under their brutal regimes.

[English Rose]

IMHO it's Saudi we should be going after first.