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. Occam's Razor is a concept developed by a hairless ape living in a complex universe.
The only people who have had their feet on the brakes have been the folks at State,
Russia. Which has otherwise been with Bush. Remember Putin and Bush riding in his truck together ? Russia's current stance is even more odd since it just banned the mere existance of some Islamic Organizations within Russia. I wonder if they got UN approval to do that ?
The rest of the "in the know" crowd, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Cheney, have all been full speed ahead on the entire issue.
That the Bush Team, minus of course Powell who was recently still looking for an exile golden parachute for Saddam.
It is as wrong as wrong can be and is easily disproven by a casual look at the current deployment schedule.
Okay. It appears to be close to a full moon. Next new moon is in about two weeks. We began the air war in gulf war 1 on a new moon. Of course to me this is 'deja vu all over again'. Been looking at the moon since prior to mid-term elections.
Okay. It appears to be close to a full moon. Next new moon is in about two weeks. We began the air war in gulf war 1 on a new moon. Of course to me this is 'deja vu all over again'. Been looking at the moon since prior to mid-term elections.
Well, thing is, unless the 101st already has a lot of prepositioned equipment in the Gulf (which I suspect might be the case), then we won't be going until the Ides of March or thereabouts. So I'm betting on March 10th-15th.
Which misses the new moon mark, but otoh, allows us to do a full court blitz with everything we have.
Funny thing about the Russians. They must be holding out for something else.
Be Seeing You,
Chris