Riddle me this, then: Wouldn't Saddam have some clue about this, and wouldn't he be screaming bloody 'ell over invasion of his territory, sovereignty, etc.? That's the part I don't get.
How wouldn't everybody know about it?
I'm with you, now completely clueless on the timetable.
The scenario posted on this thread scarily, to me, sort of explains any pussy-footing.
To: Travis McGee
The fact Bush may invade Iraq underscores the magnitude of the risk of an imminent CBN [chemical, bio, nuke] attack in the U.S. Politically, there's nothing in a war for the Administration. Sure, winning would be nice, but any outcome less out-sided than the Gulf War would mean the end of Bush's career. Folks like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Rice are desperate because they know slightly more than the average citizen. Nobody can imagine what an unconventional attack would be like, but conservatives can imagine it more readily than the left. After such an attack, America would recall September 11 with nostalgia. Imagine "only" 3,000 people killed and $50 billion in property damage in one day. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
90 posted on 12/07/2002 4:09 PM CST by Man of the Right
Probably the first thought that crossed his mind but when he sent his boys into the desert they didn't come back.
That's when he announced his "new" plan to defend the cities with hand-to-hand tactics and pulled all his troops back to Bagdad. Remember?
If this report is essentially true--and I think it is--Hussein's in a cache 22 if he tried to complain about an "invasion". The weapons would immediately be seized and shown to the world...