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To: Pokey78
For the millionth time, please disregard completely ANYTHING the British press says. Believe me, I know! "Senior sources", "high-ranked Republican officials" and "unidentified senior State Dept. officials" told me so.
65 posted on 08/03/2002 7:22:09 PM PDT by Jhensy
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To: Jhensy
For the millionth time, please disregard completely ANYTHING the British press says.

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.

76 posted on 08/03/2002 7:34:52 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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