Secret plans for 10-year war: Generals rule out 'D-Day invasion'

The Times (UK) ^ | SEPTEMBER 20 2001 | BY MICHAEL EVANS, DEFENCE EDITOR

[cajungirl]

Oh here we go, the damn CHILDREN. The thing is, we adults don't want to die either. The terrorists don't give a shit about their children let alone ours. The children can't make it without their adults alive for god's sake. The adults gotta make it first then we will worry about the children. Remember when you get on a plane they say if it depressurizes put your mask on before you put on the kids. I have three kids and three grands and believe me their lives are not more holy or more deserving than yours or mine or granny's. I am sick up the wazoo about hearing about the damn CHILDREN from the dems in their attempt to socialize the world. Let the damn village of hillary's take care of the rug rats. So there, a rant.

[xclusiv1]

If this is going to be like the war on drugs. We will lose!

[ConsistentLibertarian]

"The analogy to the drug war is frightening." You noticed that too? I can't believe they used that analogy. Have they no sense of _irony_?

[Diddle E. Squat]

This has all those little tidbits designed to peel off the wavering clueless, like soccer moms. 10-years? "Gee, that's a really long time." War on drugs, war on poverty? "But didn't they fail?" Its genesis is Dick Cheney. "Cause Bush is too dumb, and doesn't that guy have heart problems?" Make war by talking. "Yeah, If we just reason with them and listen to their feelings, they'll respect us."

This has the smell of DNC infowar.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

The movie _Brazil_ comes to mind ...

[AC86UT89]

How many of our nuclear reactors, dams, subways, airplanes, and bridges can the terrorists sabotage in 5 to 10 years?

[M. Thatcher]

The war on terrorism could be likened, they said, to the war on drugs or poverty

Prima facie evidence that this article is complete BS.

[madison46]

None if they are dead

[BigBobber]

This article is garbage. The author compares the War on Terrorism with the War on Drug and the War on Poverty---both abject failures.

George Bush told the rescue workers the people who "knocked down this building will hear from all of us soon...." I take the man at his word.

However, I do like the idea of bin Laden's group shivering or sweating in their caves for a while wondering when the attack will begin.

[garyhope]

From your mouth to God's ear, hand and gun. Assassinate, assassinate, assassinate. No war, just assissination. Much cheaper, more effective.

[TKEman]

This is funny. How secret can all this be if it's published on Free Republic? Not very, in my estimation. This looks to me like some sort of PR stunt, to show they're thinking about the long term in this war, while doing something in the short term.

While I have every confidence in the Vice President and Secretary of State, and even our British allies, I must say that the immediate crisis demands the death of Bin Laden.

We can certainly plan for a long term war, but first we must get through the rest of the year and the beginning of the next. I think this whole crisis demands the death of Osmana Bin Laden. The public simply won't stand for anything less than his death.

Anyone in his or her right mind doesn't expect a D-Day type invasion. Hell, there's no coastline to storm. What we do expect is the death of Mr. Bin Laden.

[Petronski]

Is it possible that they have no good plans at all? That this 10-year plan is really a determination to REACT?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Pressholes making things up again.

[Crouching Intern Stolen Sofa]

I agree this is bunk. The Hussein family will be checking out by 2002...

[TKEman]

Yes, I forgot about that in my post. If they're going to use the War On Drugs as a model to fight this war, then really, I must riot. I want to win this war. Not lose it. Nor fight it for the next 30 years.

[TKEman]

Well, they'd better be planning to get Bin Laden, even if they have to put up $100 million dollars for his head.

[CJ Wolf]

Ten years is too long. I don't want my kids to grow up in a war. I want this to take no more then 4. We beat the Japanese and the Germans in four. The Great war was less and when we beat the south it was four. Come on, Leeeeet's take this up a notch.

here is some other news on the Newstrolls daily

[Salman]

bump

[WRhine]

How exactly does a president with a four-year term "plan" to wage a ten year war? The analogy to the drug war is frightening.

Most people don't like to change horses in mid-stream. Take it as a good thing.