U.S. WAR GEAR ON MOVE: SHIPPERS

New York Post ^ | 8/13/02 | Reuters

[kattracks]

Some of the high-tech, gadget-loaded planes that could be used in a campaign against Iraq include the EA-6B Prowler (above).

August 13, 2002 -- The U.S. Navy is seeking to charter a large ship to carry military helicopters and ammunition from the United States to two ports in the Red Sea, shipping brokers said yesterday.

[rintense]

Exactly. What a bunch of idiots.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

The source of this story has obviously never heard of MPS or the Military Sealift Comand.

[Tribune7]

This could be premeditated disinformation. I can't think of of one nation on the Red Sea -- accept Israel but why would we use their Red Sea port? -- that would support us attacking Iraq.

[section9]

Unless, of course, some of those ships were heading towards the Jordanian port of Aquabah.

The U.S. has made some promises to the Jordanians, I expect. Right now, we have troops on manouevers in Western Jordan.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Publius6961]

"It's another big one - 48,000 square feet of helicopters, ammo and assorted rolling stock," said a shipping broker familiar with the U.S. military's tendering process.

I do hope this self-important loser no longer has a job.

I can't believe this is happening...

[B4Ranch]

The newspaper editor needs to have his head bumped into the closest wall. That will be our troops on the ground. They are the ones who will be dieing for us.

[humblegunner]

Ping.

[Arkinsaw]

ping

[Paradox]

Doesn't anyone else find all this "leaking" more than a bit suspicious? My theory is that this all MAY be a ruse, in order to get old Sodom Hussein to move his military around, make him weaker at home. It also might be a move to scare him underground, while our "agents" watch and record his move..

Just seems to me there is more here than meets the eye...

[dennisw]

Who will sell the satellite imagery to Iraq? That reveals US positions?

China? Russia? The French?

[section9]

All three, actually. Except the French, of course. They won't sell unless Saddam wires the cash first.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[dennisw]

It also might be a move to scare him underground, while our "agents" watch and record his move..

He's gonna move way underground and unable to communicate with his people. We will blast all Iraqi communications and supplant them with our own propaganda beamed from "radio free Iraq" airplanes. Iraqi command and control will be decapitated.

[mewzilla]

Are you kidding? The French won't ask for money. All Saddam has to do is make mean faces at the French. They'll give him anything he wants.

[Robert Drobot]

"....The ships, the crews, the special forces, and others are being over deployed, over extended, and spread way too thin...."

Intentional frustration. Pure and simple. Targeting the command structure of our armed forces to eliminate our best and brightest. Pentagon globalists have no problem tossing the best and brightest to a UN command hierarchy that has no respect for America, or our troops.

Shed the pretenders, or watch them achieve their goal - erosion of America's might to a shell of what it was once upon a time.

The real war is not beyond our borders. Our greatest threat, our greatest enemy, is not external.

[Cate]

I now know what really happened to Rumsfeld hand. He has been busy slapping these stupid people who are endangering our troops and citizens of the United States.

[cake_crumb]

I remember the first Gulf War. I remember the first President Bush's irritation with the press. Someone in his administration...maybe the president himself...said something to the effect that if the press were allowed free access, all Saddam would have to do in order to know our plans was to "watch CNN."

I would imagine that the current President, as well as the veteran Cabinet members he has surrounded himself with, are well aware of how loose the collective lips of our media are, and keep it in mind always.

Hopefully, this information was allowed by the administration to be published.

Otherwise, we've got to slap some version of a "D" notice on the stupid press.

[1Old Pro]

Of course we are going to invade Iraq. The reason is clear, Saddam will have WMD's soon and will threaten the people of the United States.

This should not surprise anyone except the pro-arab war doves. Yesterday I could hear our National Guardsmen firing large machine guns for hours at their range. Anecdodal evidence of an invasion is widespread for anyone who has their eyes/ears open.

We might just as well prepare for it.

[blam]

"Perhaps Sen. Lott can budget a couple of Navy transport ships in stead of the porked out, never completed, taxpayer milked, luxury cruise ship rusting away in the shipyard at Pascagoula, Mississippi."

Most people don't know about that. What a waste of millions of $$$$.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I had the same thought when i clicked to this post!David Shippers.

[reillyoburbank]

"Diplomacy works better, when concrete, recent examples are laid down. Iraq seems to be intransigent, not willing to heed Afghanistan."

That sentence should read: Diplomacy works better, when concrete standing as buildings, is returned to its original state... that of dust!