Posted on 08/22/2002 2:20:58 PM PDT by StopDemocratsDotCom
Senator InHofe (R-OK): Bush will order iraq attack 'fairly soon', attack is 'immenent'.
Politicians don't seem to care much about the safety of our troops. Many of them have never served and have never faced enemy fire before.
Very astute. I say that because I had the same thought last night. LOL Just as Israel was talking to the PLO and a withdrawal from Bethlehem had started, this guy was killed and IMMEDIATELY hostilities resumed. Saddam cannot afford any lowering of the tension in Israel while he is still a target and Arafat heard the message loud and clear.
You see, it seems lately there has been a lot of chatter about SpecOps troops already in Iraq carrying out missions as well as a report about engineers in the north of Iraq actually building air bases. One "option" for Iraq was the "Afghanistan method"- using SpecOps, local opposition troops and air power to bring about defeat. The advisor to the President who championed this view resigned. Could it be that he actually only "resigned" to create a public ruse inferring that Dubya was displeased with that option when that is the option we are truly going with?
If so, I wonder if the Senator's words are a reference to this with some small bit of knowledge? Ya gotta admit, if this is what Dubya is doing, it would be- well- "Brilliant" is the only word that comes to mind. Building airstrips inside the country you mean to strike and then using them when no other country wants to let you stage from their borders? Whoowhee! That takes big brass ones- but it would work, if done properly. What would all the naysayers have to say about that?
It's probably too farfetched but then again there are a sizable amount of articles lately pointing to some meaningful logistical buildup in Turkey coupled with reports of SpecOps troops and Turkish troops coming down from the north to make this happen. Turkey has a key interest in all this. They want to make certain the Kurds don't get too much of an advantage in the region. It sounds crazy but it is plausible.
It seems the word for the era is "regime change" and Iraq is up to bat, now after the Afghanistan effort.
Remember the phrase "at a time of our chosing." Most would agree that if Saddam can be taken down, without massive US military effort, so much the better (saves our brave people's lives).
Iraq's military would be wise to do it, and save many Iraqi lives.
Of course, all the Iraq talk could be diversion, too. If so, where, then?
Bush won't do anything to the senator. Bush wants Saddam guessing, regardless of the senator's motives.
Personally, it looks like yet another role in the big propaganda play, and Bush must be having the time of his life watching the dominate media squirming in their seats wondering what is really going on.
First, you don't know if it helps or confuses Saddam.
Second, this propaganda war has nothing to do with Sadddam, but is simply Bush messing with CNN et al. And Bush is winning by a country mile.
I don't know. I am laughing pretty hard right now...
By messing with Saddam's mind so much that Saddam preempts, giving Bush the pretext to go to war immediately.
If Iraq struck first, no. There would be no time. Bush would have to retaliate immediately.
I would have no trouble believing that Bush wants to mess with Saddam's mind so that Saddam strikes first, handing Bush the pretext he needs for immediate action without anyone's approval. This would save both Bush and Congress if something went bad. Saddam would be blamed for having started the mess, particularly at a time when Bush is sounding more and more like he is "heeding" the voices of European Appeasers.
Wrong.
Wrong.
God is on God's side. You must be on His side. As to why 9-11 occurred, let me explain something here, but it won't come close to really explaining this subject in any kind of detail.
God is not a law breaker. He is a law abider. Do you understand the difference?
God set into motion certain laws. One such law is that he can do nothing for humanity unless someone asks. He cannot simply stop bad from happening if we don't ask him to, lest the devil can then accuse Him of inteferring with man's will on earth. This is why God says He does nothing unless He first tells His prophets.
We can avert disasters by praying for Divine intervention. And this has happened a lot more than you realize- you never hear about the disasters that have been averted.
The Gulf War unfolded as it was prayed out by some people who KNOW HOW TO PRAY. They wrote it down and said later they could have handed President Bush SR the script to the war and he could have known AHEAD OF TIME how it would have turned out. That is what "praying out the plans and purposes of God" is all about.
I can say a LOT LOT more, but I don't want to spend the time right now- it would be too much to type.
I believe that Bush cares too much about the troops safety to expose them to the risk without taking advantage of the darkness. We are making more attacks against the Iraqi radar sites these days and that is surely part of the preparations for the main attack.
If we can eliminate most of his radar sites before the attack, we may put it off those four days but I wouldn't count on it. We would have to be certain that we didn't need the darkness before we would discard it. Most of our offensive doctrine is predicated upon the usage of the new moon to protect our planes from visual sighting and that is a very beneficial policy not to be discarded lightly.
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