[Interesting Times]

Where are the three thousand missiles that were supposed to be raining down on Baghdad? Whatever happened to them? What happened to "Shock and Awe"?

Nobody said 3,000 missiles would hit Baghdad; that was for the entire country -- and it was bombs and missiles, not just missiles. And If you add up the number of reported sorties over the last 10 days, you get much more that.

But that isn't the point. You claimed loudly and vociferously that we'd never attack Iraq for fear of WMDs. Now you're trying to salvage your obliterated theory by claiming in the face of all available evidence that we really aren't trying all that hard -- as though a crazed dictator would watch 100,000 troops take over half his country and say "Well, they seem to be holding back a bit, so I'll put away the anthrax."

A more honest approach would be to simply admit you were wrong.

[The Great Satan]

I admitted I was wrong about my proposition that there would be another stall. However, I was right that the story of "shock and awe" and "inside out" was BS, and I was correct in predicting that, if we decided we would could not afford another stall, we would go with an "outside in" strategy, which is what we now see coming to pass.