Because of course it's more dependable, and reliable right?? 
Posted on 04/25/2002 12:17:54 PM PDT by codebreaker
Bob Novak makes a United States war with Iraq sound imminent
The signal has spread through the Pentagon: on to Baghdad to get rid of Saddam Hussein, probably in September when the weather should be fine and the United States high tech arsenal will be replentished.
That's what Defense Department policymakers plan, but their cheers are balanced by apprehension among civilian and military career officials.
Some of them are apparently are crossing their fingers for Secretary of State Colin Powell to exert control over the situation. (ugh!-ed.)
I predicted 9/11/02 on another thread a couple of months ago. Not boasting, just noting the obvious.
How's this for an alternative nightmare scenario? Through its puppet Shi'ite rebel groups in the south, Iran launches its own pre-emptive coup against Sadaam, removes him and replaces him in Baghdad with an "Islamic Republican" regime, before the preparations for our own attack are complete. All very democratic of course, just the way it is in Iran. Would we then have to re-think our whole strategy, while the Iranians tighten their grip on Mesopotamia?
Saddam: you won't know WHEN, and you won't know HOW...but we are coming for your worthless hide.
May 3 is a Friday I think...May 5 is the planetary alignment -- a real biggie, much more than in yr 2000. May 12 is the new moon, in the mid morning EDT.
Halbmond uber Bagdad?
Nostradamus says 57 yrs to the day since Germany surrendered, wasn't that, too in early May?
But the May war is supposed to go nuclear sooner rather than later? Isn't May 12 also the 20th day in Taurus? That would imply nuclear war right there...
These predictions are the source of the term "Mayday" for the end of the world, as in the sinking of a ship...I'm going off to an astrological site...
...Not to mention that Saddam MIGHT be running out of diplomatically influential, royal nephews and cousins and nephews-in-law and cousins-in-law, etc. to hide behind, like he did during Desert Storm.
And guess where Novak has a summer home...in the south of France! Figures.
Though it's possible that the muster of medvac reserves might be due to the possibility of imminent terrorist attack, there's no way of knowing for sure. Some info is more "public" than others.
It's better to be silent and safe than to speak and be sorry.
We were taught in public school that the origin is French. m'aider = help me.
Sounds fishy to me..
LOL...well, me too.
It's only caution I'm thinking of.
FWAPFWAPFWAPFWAPFWAPFWAPFWAPFWAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(virtual rasberry)
Because of course it's more dependable, and reliable right??
Shorter sorties, and thus more sorties per aircaft. We have less assets now than during the Gulf war, coming at the end of the Reagan buildup, before Bush One started the process, carried to extreme levels by the SinkMiester, of gutting the military. Actually Bush one had started cutting back, but hadn't had time to do much of it. Clinton had 8 Freeping years to cut the military to the bone, and Bush two hasn't yet had much time to do much building back up. Losing control of the Senate will make that harder too, and much more expensive, since he'll have to "give" social program spending to "get" military spending.
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