Posted on 08/03/2002 5:12:09 PM PDT by Pokey78
Would this be the sneak attack that has been trumpeted in the New York Times for months now?
Remember when the government used to be able to stay out of our private lives while keeping its own military operations a secret?
Just wait, Pee Wee. The Iraqi people will be throwing flower petals in front of the tank treads as US and British forces march on Saddam's palaces.
They're sick of that animal.
I find it deeply amusing that the Guardian's readers are so stupid they have to have this spelled out for them.
God forgive you for hoping that on another parent.
Actually, max61's not a disruptor. He's been around a couple of years, and slinks onto FR, usually on weekends when he can't get a date. He hates all things non-libertarian.
Our troops are already spread throughout the world.
President Bush was not interested in "nation-building" that Bill Clinton was so fond of. We are in the business only because of terrorism that affect American lives.
And just why are these "crazy radical muslim terrorists" striving to end our way of life?. Could it be that we've been bombing Iraq for 12 years?. Could it be our supporting Isreali actions against the Palestinians?. Could it be that we've stuck our nose in places where it doesn't belong?.
Heh, you can be really funny. Well, maybe it was a mistake to support Israel directly from the beginning.
But it's too late. The Arabs hate Israel and America, so we got to kill them. End of the story. Besides Israel is our dependent ally, remember in 1981 when they bombed the reactor in Iraq? If it was not for that, Persian Gulf War would had been impossible.
Saddam is using the money to build presidental palaces and on his army. So please don't give me the bull about how we are starving Iraqi children.
There's no doubt that Americans made some mistakes with our foreign policy in the past. But all we can do right now is to correct our mistakes and get rid of crazy dictators such as Saddam so the rest of the Arab World will get the message before Israel or USA nukes them.
Good point, and one which many are completely unable to comprehend.
I don't know. They might've stumbled across one pertinent detail with that mention of OshKosh doing up the military's trucks. I went to the Oshkosh site and they do indeed do this sort of thing. Just click on the menu left- "Defense" and then "Support".
When I was still in the service, these sorts of items fell into the "carwash report" category. A carwash report is something the Military Intelligence guys call a civilian who just washes his car all day outside a military post and sort of innocuously counts vehicles going in and out. He's gathering good intel for the bad guys even though his activities seem innocent enough. Skilled military intelligence people can take enough of this sort of info- like the Oshkosh detail- and put together a pretty good picture of what's going on and what's about to happen.
It looks like to me, this news source has stumbled across this little bit of info and has built a story around it. In and of itself, it's nothing. But the intel guy tags it and puts it up on the situation board and along with the thousands of other little details the media finds out for him he's getting a pretty good picture of when we might invade his homeland. I'm trying to keep my own situation board of this sort of thing and I found the Oshkosh detail very intriguing.
I've been enduring a neighbor's barking dog all day, it was hard to likewise endure max61's barking.
Cheers to ya, sinkspur.
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