Rumsfeld Says Troops To Go In 'Within Days'

The Times (UK) ^ | 11-02-2001 | Roland Watson

[blam]

Let's roll?

[cmsgop]

GO RUMMY GO!!!!!!!!!


And God Bless Our Troops!!!!!!

[anniegetyourgun]

And the media says they aren't getting enough info on this war. How much more clear can this be? Unless, of course, this is just a means of telegraphing for other purposes.

[america-rules]

"a switch in US tactics"

Rumsfeld was asked point blank if there was a switch in tactics and he said no and this idiot makes this up!

[eureka!]

Could be disinformation too. Get the Taliban troops moving in anticipation then "Ahmad, do you hear planes? Oh, Allah, here I come...BOOM". Or, it could be true. Taliban, go ahead punks, which is it? Make Rummy's day....

[Harp]

Nothing new really. The Times are squeezing Rummy's words pretty hard in order to get a headline that sounds like it might be an Afgan D-Day. We'll keep putting more people in. We'll get people in Afganistan controlling an airport before hard winter (my guess) -- I think that's well within what a military plan might be.

[JmyBryan]

We be rollin'!

[Liberals are Evil Socialists!]

Mis-information or evidence that not much remains?

[RobbyS]

Golly Gee, but these reporters have been looking at too many video games. We are moving far faster than we did in Lebanon in 1959, when we made a comparable buildup of forces. The difference is that IKE was able to conceal most of that effort from the view of the media.

[Milosevic2]

Until Wednesday, American bombing runs had largely avoided frontline Taleban positions, concentrating on military installations and infrastructure.
Mis-information or ... ?
"*Breaking*" the Pentagon releases first photo of infrastructure destroyed (green humor, Nov. 1)

[colorado tanker]

Those seventy Janet Reno virgins will be working overtime soon!

[eureka!]

I think they've been hard at work already. ;^)

[beatnik]

I hope this is true. It's about f-ing time.

[Interesting Times]

It takes a while for serious war materials to be brought into position. We're just now at the point in the timeline where we could reasonably expect to intensify our current level of activity.

Our remarkable high-tech weaponry tends to make people overlook the more mundane requirements of logistics...

[Gumption]

Our remarkable high-tech weaponry tends to make people overlook the more mundane requirements of logistics...

Change "make people" to "make journalists" and I would agree completely. The people, even my sweet Aunts, mother, and sister seem perfectly content with the progression of things. It's almost instinctive or something. It's like everyone has a firm grasp on what going on and what's needed except for the press corps charged with the duty to know. I hope you follow what I'm saying because I can't think of any other way to say it. Probably cause I don't understand it myself.

[TGIAO]

But Mr Rumsfeld insisted that the Pentagon had made “measurable progress” towards all its aims. He also tried to put the war in an historical context, stating that it had taken the US four months to respond to Pearl Harbor and three-and-a-half years to defeat Japan in the Second World War.

And they only signed the unconditional surrender after we dropped 2 atomic bombs on them.

Just an observation.......

[nm_james]

The bombing looks impressive, but I wonder how many kills they get with them.

Even big bombs have a limited affect against a well dug in enemy. You get what you hit, and not much else.

[flyover]

Along with supplies can you imagine the intel data base that has had to be accumulated in this very short period of time. Each bomb mission has had to have been photograped several different times, a photo interpreter has had to look at, pictures blow them up and specifically identify what we evidently are defining as "valid" (military) targets, maybe with the help of a collaborator, or possibly from historical data, or maybe even with Russian help, he then had to read several sequences of these targets into a computer, distribute the data base to the fighter/bomber organizations. The pilots then had to study the photos and look at bombing runs to ensure that they could id the target from 30k feet. And then while actually flying the mission if it didn't look exactly like the info on his computer back at base he was probably forced to pull off and go home with his payload. Of course the further we get into the war the more data that will all ready be available in the intel data base and the less time it will take to quickly id and bomb specific targets. But in my mind the speed with which we started the bombing was a total surprise due to the amount of intel necessary to fight a war under these conditions

[Abn1508]

Like the senator who is insisting that we "go in and feed the starving Afghans." Jesus Chr*st on a Crutch. With _what_? From _where_? Using _what_ ports? Using _what_ roads?