[mhking]

no point in doing something like that too far ahead of time because these folks go through so much information they lose alot over a few weeks

One of the big signals from CNN & Ms.NBC will be when Christiane Amanpour and Ashleigh Banfield show up in Baghdad. And yes, although we joke about it, don't be surprised if Geraldo shows up there before the fur flies, either.

[Oregon W.oman]

It's true that you can't get ready to wage a war without the
news networks knowing. Even if the exact strike date is a closely guarded secret, the number of people in the government who know it's 'close' has got to be in the thousands.

There are plenty of leftover Clinton bureaucrats who pass everything that crosses their desks on to the liberal networks. We've seen it happen time and time again.

The only thing different about this 'leak' is that Rice will have been on the phone to them asking them to withhold reporting until it starts (like she did before the Afghanistan strike). Of course, the networks start to put their people in place for the coverage and the liberal ones start their shrill anti-war screaming which tips us all off that an attack is imminent without them having to say so.