[xkaydet65]

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but don't you think that the sealift neede for an entire MEF might have been noticed unloading in Haifa and the vehicles rollloing across northern Israel to Jordan?

My own purely amateur slant is to connect some Marine movement with the 173rd taking an airfield near Mosul. Airlifting two MEUs from the Med, say Cyprus to Mosul would be doable. As they come with their own air in cobras and harriers two MEUs combined with the paras and spec ops could form a formidable striking force from the north, and could be deployed with some sped.

[JayP56]

I also remember seeing the other day a report about some Marine General running around in nothern Iraq meeting with the Kurds.....

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They don't need to roll across Isreal, they could and probably did unload in the gulf of Aqaba and rolled right through Jordan. This area, by the way, is nothing but the driest of sand and small rocks with almost no population all the way to Baghdad.

This could also explain why we haven't seen even a single Scud shot towards Isreal, the Marines took them out !