The War and the Clock

STRATFOR ^ | Mar 26, 2003 - 0025 GMT

[Arkinsaw]

Not bad.

[EternalVigilance]

Pretty darn good, in fact.

[SubMareener]

As has been said, over and over again, "Those who know the plan are not talking." Now, you are getting to see the plan as it unfolds. Please, rest assured that when you are told that we are on the plan, we are on the plan!

The plan has many branch points. These branch points are taken based on real things happening on the battlefield. Not the feelings, fears, hopes, or dreams of journalists or even retired Generals.

No matter which branches are taken, they all lead to the same result: WE WIN!

[headsonpikes]

Stratfor is best at these sorts of things.

They should leave the conjecturing to DEBKA.

[okie01]

"[Saddam & Co.] can't win unless they achieve their strategic goal: to create a political crisis in the United States that compels the Bush administration to accept a cease-fire. Their means to this end would be to inflict as many casualties as possible and to make the war last as long as possible, in the expectation that political support for the war will dissolve internationally and in the United States and Britain."

"However, the manic-depressive mood swings of...the media force us to into a different mode."

Saddam has many allies in the media. One White House press conference is sufficient to prove the point.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Saddam has many allies in the media. One White House press conference is sufficient to prove the point.

Amen to that!

[John Locke]

They can't win unless they achieve their strategic goal: to create a political crisis in the United States that compels the Bush administration to accept a cease-fire.

There is nothing Iraq can do that would achieve this goal. The political crisis, if it comes, will be fabricated out of lies and propaganda by Saddam's faithful allies, the liberal media and the liberal Democratic party.

I hope President Bush is keeping a sharp eye on the enemy within the gates; they are by far the more dangerous pole of the Axis of Evil.

[EternalHope]

Good article.

MEMO to U.S. media:
1. It's OK to take some time to win a war.
2. We are going to take some casualties.

The media really does not understand casualties. Our military understands that they are risking their own lives. They are doing so willingly. We owe them a huge THANK YOU!

The media, on the other hand, act as if casualties somehow prove we were wrong to fight the war in the first place. They attack our leaders and our soldiers when we lose someone.

Instead, the media should be honoring every death with an even stronger determination to persevere.

[Grampa Dave]

What a great summary of this article and what has happened since this got started. Thank you!

As has been said, over and over again, "Those who know the plan are not talking." Now, you are getting to see the plan as it unfolds. Please, rest assured that when you are told that we are on the plan, we are on the plan!

The plan has many branch points. These branch points are taken based on real things happening on the battlefield. Not the feelings, fears, hopes, or dreams of journalists or even retired Generals.

No matter which branches are taken, they all lead to the same result: WE WIN!

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent article and very timely. Thanks for posting it!

[DeuceTraveler]

Americans have realized when we began to take casualties that this was a war, not a video game. War is horrible and sickening, but sometimes necessary as it is now. Salivating journalists eager to film bloodshed is worse.

[the_doc]

This is a very good answer to Gove's article on the other thread. The war is actually going great at this point.

(Thanks, Dave.)

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks your excellent points. Your analysis is right on target just like our people in Iraq!

[jocon307]

Great post.

"[T]he core Iraqi assumption is that the United States will not be given enough time by the American public to defeat Iraq. That is the essence of the Iraqi war plan. Over the past few days, it did not seem a foolish assumption."

This is THE point. Now, let us see then how very, very important our "little freeps" are. Just as during the Florida Fiasco (as I have come to call it) it is more important than one realizes for us, for the right, for the people who love this country and have their heads screwed on properly to be out there. With our flags, our signs, with our bodies, our selves (to steal a phrase from the left wing lesbians, if I may). No matter that it is only a dozen, or a half, or a score, or a thousand, we can't fail to get out there. It is important for us to be there, important for others to see us there, and never mind the media for a sec.

Saddam was VERY emboldened by our opponents (those stinking commies and their useful idiots) protests. It is very important to the outcome of this war, which is only round 2 in the fight against World Terrorism and Islamofacist Oppression, that we stay focussed, that we stay involved, that we keep DEMONSTRATING our SUPPORT of our COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF and the ARMED FORCES he commands.

[John Locke]

Yes, war is hard; war is hell. I'm remebering another quote from the fight against Napoleon:

Hard pounding, this, gentlemen; try who can pound the longest

- the Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo.

[Brian Allen]

Thanks for the ping, G'Dave. Good one, Axion! It'll take what it takes but it won't take long. And once the Iraqis know for sure that Saddam is dead? It's all over.

[William Tell]

From the article: "Therefore, they clearly must believe -- rightly or wrongly -- that their forces have improved or were not fully tested in 1991."

I lost interest in this article soon after this line.

I believe that the Iraqis thought that the US would never come and so their strength was not really an issue.

[Rockitz]

Nevermind, I thought the title said, "The War and the Glock."