This is bull$h!t. If it were so they would have been milking it in public for all it's worth. Just a few days ago when they were contending that there hadn't been any other big shoes dropping and none were really needed to justify an invasion.
The leftists attempt to prevent us from protecting our citizens is whats bull$h!t.
Agreed. Watching for Perle's denial. I think our "friends" in Europe with the Iraqi economic interests are making up stories that will be discredited.
By the way, I think the best time to invade Iraq would have been 9-12-2001.
No, up to now we need misdirection more than more public support. A few months ago the world community, perhaps even Saddam, was not convinced that we were committed to invasion.
We have the legal authority to invade right now. And we still have a narrow majority of public support.
We weren't ready to invade until now, needing satellite guided weapons replenishment, Afghan wrap up, special training, forward deployments of equipment, airstrip construction, vaccine restocking and the fall climate change. But we didn't want to over-forecast our intentions, certainly not almost a year in advance. One year of firm notice would have given Saddam more time to commit to more elaborate counter attacks, justifying them by our overt threats, and would have allowed international opposition time to ferment, more so than now.
At some point we will need to shift over and trade operational ambiguity for public support. Perhaps that time is now, to coincide with the 9/11 memorials.