'....this is a bluff and that Bush will never order an attack on Iraq because Saddam has planted enough WMD in this country to be able to kill us in the millions and lay our cities to waste.' I think the theory is more along the lines of explaining why the attack has been delayed so long. Personally I think the attack is happening very soon, but I also thought that quite a few months ago. Delaying has given Saddam and the terrorists more time. It has also allowed North Korea to become a big pain.
Consider: we have sent upwards to 175,000 combat and support personnel to the Gulf.
Thats what perplexes me. We had close to that amount for Gulf War 1, when Saddams Military was much stronger then it is now. This buildup shows that either Bush has expanded his mission beyond Iraq or that something along the lines of TGS theories may have been in play.
We have decided that Iraq is a major battle in the war against Al Qaeda; we wish to deny AQ the possibility of Saddam acting as their quartermaster. Not to achieve such an end would be a major defeat in the battle against Bin Laden and his pals.
Its not a possibility. Its an established fact now. See. Even Bush et. al. agree that Saddam poses a great threat to the US. Wonder why ? You did see Colin Powell talk about the unmanned drones capable of spraying biologicals and chemicals, right ?
We would have concentrated on Al Qaeda or the North Koreans, and we would have made a seperate peace with Saddam.
You cant make peace with someone as diabolical as Saddam. That would have been a guaranteed loss.
That's why none of what GS wrote makes any sense.
TGS has been correct up till now, no full scale attack on Iraq, but like TGS stated, Bush has had his foot on the accelerator while the rest of those 'in the know' have had their foots on the brakes. IMHO - The brakes are about to melt off. Now you can jump up and down about being right when that happens, but you might want to be a little careful because they still have 'no clue' as to who sent the anthrax and the blackmailing letters.
TGS has been correct up till now, no full scale attack on Iraq, but like TGS stated, Bush has had his foot on the accelerator while the rest of those 'in the know' have had their foots on the brakes. IMHO - The brakes are about to melt off. Now you can jump up and down about being right when that happens, but you might want to be a little careful because they still have 'no clue' as to who sent the anthrax and the blackmailing letters.
No, that's simply stating: "the attack hasn't happened yet, ergo, my first assumtions about the situation are entirely correct". Then insert cut and paste links about anthrax to prove your point, Q.E.D.. That's just nonsense. If you follow Occam's Razor, the more prosaic and realistic reasons have to do with logistics and political factors (i.e.: getting troops in place and lining up allies, something that wasn't in place last summer) appear far more reasonable.
The only people who have had their feet on the brakes have been the folks at State, if only because that's the institutional culture of that department. I don't believe it has anything to do with anthrax. The rest of the "in the know" crowd, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Cheney, have all been full speed ahead on the entire issue.
One thing: I am in no way denying Saddam's potential ability to use anthrax, VX, etc., on a massive scale in this country using cutouts. I am saying that I believe TGS to be wrong when he indicates that the attack will not happen because Saddam has seeded this country with anthrax-carrying sleeper cells. That was the central thrust of his entire thesis. It is as wrong as wrong can be and is easily disproven by a casual look at the current deployment schedule.
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Chris