Bush, Blair give Saddam 21 days to disarm or face war

The Times of India ^ | 2/21/03

[mhking]

Too damn long.

[Mulder]

If Iraq is such a threat to the United States, Congress should declare war and Bush should get on with it.

The rest of the world might not like it, but 'them liking it' really isn't a requirement.

With each passing day that this drags out, it's becoming apparent to me that this whole episode has more to do with legitimizing the UN and the New World Order than anything else.

[hchutch]

Gotta get folks in position. Get intelligence data. Wrap up a few more tango nets...

First things first.

Besides, it gives me a little more time for some practice at the range... :)

[TheBattman]

21 stinkin' days??????

What in the world are they thinking? First of all - why would they give such a precise time for war to begin - doesn't sound like good strategy.

Second of all - Is 12 years and umpteen UN resolutions not enough warning or chances? We discuss the irrelivance of the UN when they keep putting this off, but now we are falling into the same trap. I find it hard to believe that Saddam is such a danger if we can continue to put off any real action.

[Bogey78O]

Another 21 days?

[Southack]

What an odd conclusion for you to draw...

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Mr. Mojo]

Meanwhile, in an apparent quickening of the pace to war, President Bush and Blair are reported by at least one British paper to have decided on a 21-day deadline.

Quickening? Hardly. Our window of opportunity is closing fast. Let's get this damn show on the road already!

[snippy_about_it]

ping

[livius]

21 days? March something? I thought we couldn't do anything after March 1 because of the heat. This is too strange. Are Bush and Blair TRYING to lose support?

[MississippiMan]

Gotta get folks in position. Get intelligence data. Wrap up a few more tango nets...

Puh-leeze. This is about appeasing the UN. Nothing more and nothing less. Please don't spin it as anything else.

MM

[areafiftyone]

I know it is. But I think this is all planned out. It seems like Bush is always one ahead of Saddam.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Is this, like, before or after St. Patrick's Day?

Oh, just looked. COOL. We can take care of this over the weekend, and enjoy an event free Guinness and Lamb Stew..

[goodnesswins]

"The rising rhetoric of a "moral war" comes as the heads of both the Catholic Church and of 70 million Anglican Christians around the world, have firmly rejected the morality of bombing Baghdad into submission.",

These idiots are no more moral than Hugh Hefner....while they fiddle faddle....the Iraqi public dies.....oh, I am beginning to wonder about ANY church these days.

[hchutch]

Yeah, sure...

[PhilDragoo]

The Times of India does not name the "one paper" which cites the 21-day limit.

This article has nothing of substance to offer.

Therefore I advise we attack Monday March 3 the next new moon:

1) Jacques Chirac
2) Hollywood
3) Kofi Annan
4) Gerhard Schroeder
5) Saddam Hussein's stocks of Viagra
6) Iowa

Then we get series.

[Thane_Banquo]

The paper said the two men, who had a 30-minute telephone conversation on Thursday, had agreed to give Saddam Hussein until March 14 to disarm or face war.

As President Bush once said, "Those who know aren't telling."

[Blue Scourge]

Well, I will say this, the heat starts going up really soon, they must be uber confident to give them such a short window of decent weather.

[goodnesswins]

I think YOU are correct...I don't think there will be much need for men on the ground sweating it out.....the targets are known, IMHO, and we've got the "munitions" necessary to wipe them out....then it's a matter of cleanup.