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Are These The Detailed Battle Plans For The Most Heavily Trailed Military Attack In Modern History
Independent (UK) ^ | 9-23-2002 | Rupert Cornwell

Posted on 09/22/2002 4:09:02 PM PDT by blam

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To: Teacher317
Once again, Israel has to tolerate military attacks...

I think they will be coming along this time. It is a different world. A post war Iraq would be an ally to Israel. The only question is how fast the Arab nations would get in line to be friends with a pro-west Iraq/Iran/US/Brit/Russia/Israel coalition after the war. Either you are with us...or else we don't buy ANY of your oil.
21 posted on 09/22/2002 5:37:08 PM PDT by AdA$tra
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To: blam

22 posted on 09/22/2002 5:39:43 PM PDT by Skooz
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To: M Kehoe
My son is in Kuwait,at a base called New York,named after 911,along with Virginia,Pennsylvania and New Jersey.I am also an arm chair warrior and proud of all millitary personnel involved in the eradication of SH.Lord knows where this will all end but one thing for sure,muslim extremist must be eliminated if the free world wants to continue to exist.There is gonna be alot of dead bodies in the future,better them than us, I say.
23 posted on 09/22/2002 5:40:07 PM PDT by eastforker
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To: Cicero
unprovoked?

Yes, unprovoked. As in when Adolf Hitler "unprovoked" the Frenchies and the Brits in 1935 by renouncing the Treaty of Versailles and anouncing his decision to re-arm.

Too bad Hitler didn't a little try harder to actually provoke the Brits in 1935. It would have saved the Brits a lot of trouble in 1939-1945.

24 posted on 09/22/2002 5:40:17 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: blam
Gonna be a whola lotta bodybags before this one is over.
25 posted on 09/22/2002 5:46:09 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: Spacetrucker
OK, thanks for your help.
26 posted on 09/22/2002 5:47:12 PM PDT by Ligeia
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To: eastforker
May the Lord bless our military and watch over your son. Please thank him for me (and our country) for his service.

5.56mm

27 posted on 09/22/2002 5:54:46 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; weikel; hchutch; PsyOps; Robert_Paulson2
>>>>>But even though Iraq's forces are weaker than in 1991, and those of the US even better armed today, General Franks knows that few military plans survive the start of the fighting. "We are prepared to do whatever we are asked to do," he said yesterday after visiting US servicemen in Kuwait.>>>>>>

"This bickering is pointless. General Franks will provide us with the location of the Iraqi fortress by the time this station is operational. We will then crush the Republican Guards with one swift stroke."

28 posted on 09/22/2002 6:07:28 PM PDT by Senator_Palpatine
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To: Senator_Palpatine
It was I who allowed the Jihadist to obtain the battle plans for the Iraqi invasion... they are falling into a trap.. oh Im afraid our smarts bombs will be quite operational when the US Air Force arrives
29 posted on 09/22/2002 6:23:15 PM PDT by weikel
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To: JoeSixPack1
Benjamin Netanyahu wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal Friday. The first paragraph and the last paragraph summed it up. I'll save you all the rest of the reading.

"Sept. 11 alerted most Americans to the grave dangers that are now facing our world. Most Americans understand that had al Qaeda possessed an atomic device last September, the city of New York would not exist today. They realize that last week we could have grieved not for thousands of dead, but for millions."

......

"Today the terrorists have the will to destroy us but not the power. Today we have the power to destroy them. Now we must summon the will to do so."
30 posted on 09/22/2002 6:26:52 PM PDT by Higgymonster
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To: meenie
February or March is giving the Iraqis a lot of time to prepare. Why is the United States so fearful of a small country like Iraq? This is like fighting California.

Not quite like fighting California.

However, the more we see "February" or "March", the more one should think "December" or "January". The dezinformatsiya is flying around so fast and furious I wonder how Rummy has time to come up with all this bullsh#t.

He's a busy man, that's for sure.

Once Bush gets his Congressional Resolution, all bets are off. Take that to the bank!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

31 posted on 09/22/2002 6:35:25 PM PDT by section9
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To: Higgymonster
"Today the terrorists have the will to destroy us but not the power. Today we have the power to destroy them. Now we must summon the will to do so."

How True.

I've always liked this guy. You know his brother died in the raid (rescue) at Entebbe. (..and Big Dadda is laid back in the life of luxury in Saudi Arabia.)

32 posted on 09/22/2002 6:52:56 PM PDT by blam
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To: Senator_Palpatine
"Soon the Iraqis will be crushed, and the Iraqi oil production will be ours."
33 posted on 09/22/2002 7:32:16 PM PDT by hchutch
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To: Tacis
Ah, yes, we settle all the old scores in one fell swoop.

It will be a day long remembered...
34 posted on 09/22/2002 7:34:33 PM PDT by hchutch
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To: section9
"I wonder how Rummy has time to come up with all this bullsh#t."

Perhaps with his crack staff of professional bs'ers.... maybee even some freepers, jeepers creepers... this website being privileged to spread the "bandini"....
"Bandini is the WORD for fertizer...."

BTW: What if it isn't iraq???
35 posted on 09/22/2002 9:37:38 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2
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To: hchutch
But... do the Iraqi KNOW about the clone army???
36 posted on 09/22/2002 9:52:15 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
But leaks of military plans do not happen by accident. Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, may fulminate about them in public, with the straightest of faces. But they serve the administration's purpose ... Perhaps Saddam reacts to threat by moving things around, which our eyes in the sky follow.

Our preemptive strike is being done in self-defense ... The dimocrats are trying hard to sell the slogan 'pre-emptive' and paint it as some new and dangerous precedent. The fact is, taking out Saddam and disarming Iraq will be the correct continuance of the Gulf War, enforcing the U.N. resolutions Saddam has ythumbed his nose at and sinkEmperor failed to address! don't let the damn lying crimina; enterprise dimocrats set the rhetoric and the agenda. They want this to appear as a pre-emptive strike, to paint it as a terrible 'new precedent'. It isn't even that!

37 posted on 09/22/2002 9:58:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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