[CIB-173RDABN]

Interesting question. I see the responses have been all over the board from jokes to serious, with predictions from soon to next year.

I have already made my prediction that we will be attacking Iraq before the end of September.

I believe the men and machinery are already in place.

The problem for us is how do you gain surprise, when you have told everyone in the world what you are going to do?

One thing is you attempt to confuse your enemy. There have been so many leaks on what our plans are, that if someone had the 100% true invasion plans and published them, they would be lost amoung the hundreds of untrue plans. What we are going to do may already be out there but how do you tell which is the real one. I don't know.

After 9/11 up until recently, the administration had down played Iraq's involvement in the attack, but recently stories are coming out connecting the dots, with one big dot being Saddam.

As the date of the attack against Iraq you will see more stories about their involvement, but the truth is, very few will know when it will occur until it is already in progress.

Keep in mind a lot of what you read is untrue.

I do know this is going to make an interesting book when it is all over.

[ARCADIA]

One thing is you attempt to confuse your enemy. There have been so many leaks on what our plans are, that if someone had the 100% true invasion plans and published them, they would be lost amoung the hundreds of untrue plans.

All this disinformation is one of the signs I was talking about.

[willyone]

If the Iraqi people are convinced that we are serious this time and really mean to remove Saddam we have only to sit back and watch. We will nudge the ball with bombing but the Iraqis will take it from there. The challenge is to not simply change one a-hole for another. That will be the hard part.