Posted on 08/06/2002 1:15:37 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
This is insanity. Every time I turn around, someone is printing more information that is supposed to be confidential! If it's not treason, it's certainly stupid!
As for the planes, I doubt that these are "inflatables" but they might be template outlines dropped on the runway to make it look like the strip is occupied. Notice that these are overhead shots instead of obliques (where you get a sense of 3 dimensions). Move the templates around a couple times a day to spoof a crude imaging satellite. No problem.
IMO, this story is a plant. The NYPost is exactly the kind of news outlet that you'd expect to grab this story & run with it. Does anybody seriously think that the NYPost actually dug this stuff up? No. It was handed to them on a silver platter -- probably with written copy, as well.
BTW, when things start to come to a head, Saddam's intel sources are going to dry-up. Those commercial satellite companies are going to turn-off the spigot unless they want to get their wings clipped.
There are no plans on the Presidents desk for an attack on Iraq, I'm wondering if a cooling off period of several months will be followed by diplomatic negotiations. Saddam will be bullied into letting U.N. inspectors, inspect a camel patty packing facility, Iraq will be given a clean bill of health. Life will go on until the next thing.
After 19 loosely organized japanese hijacked some planes and attacked Pearl Harbor.
Yeah. And a few for Mecca, Medina, Riyadh...
--Boris
I have mentioned the possibility several times here. In particular it was Clinton's gutting of our military which ensured that this scenario can occur. They all watch CNN. They know when our military is over-extended. No need for a conspiracy.
That is why a short, quick, surprise decapitation a la nuke is the best option for Iraq and the rest of the enemy nations in the region.
--Boris
I say quit worrying about neighboring bases, canteens, go-go dancers, and leather sofas.....fuel up the KC-135's and start pounding, by George.
After four and a half years of bloody warfare which resulted in the decimation of their fighting forces, sinking of their Navy, destruction of their homeland and starvation of their populace.
Official Secret Reports of "War Plans" will keep the chicken little crowd peckin away nicely and the DOD will get it's budget approved by asking for 3 times as much as it needs, getting it cut in half by a "responsible" bunch of polidiots and congresscritters, and ending up ahead of the money game anyway.
All this while the Martha Stewart CEO types keep "cooking " the books and animals steal our children here at home. The home we used to be able to defend with a firearm.
But hey don't get me wrong, with all it's faults I still love this country. I just stick around to see whats gonna amaze me next :o) < / RANT >
Stay Safe !
Where on earth did you get THAT idea?
Define attack? I hope you don't mean invasion...China is completely incapable of invading Taiwan even if the US doesn't lift a finger to help Taiwan.
In the US bomber inventory, only a loaded B-52 needs 13,000 foot runways.
Personally I have found that all politicans tip their hand, and now that we are clear of any arms treaties, the wish list for new toys has been let out of the bag. Iraq better worry. If we do eventually go into Iraq, with our new toys Iraq will experience the fastest defeat in history, they will look back on the good old days when they were alive to crawl out from under rocks and hug the ankles of an American Military man. The Middle East doesn't want any of us, they better snap to that fact fast. They may have given us a 911, but we have a 411 for them.
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