Senator: Bush will order iraq attack 'fairly soon', attack is 'immenent'

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[bert]

How about already???

Check this out HERE: and Here:

[crystalk]

Rosh Hashanah, ushering in the new year 5763, will begin at sundown on September 6, 2002 of the Christian calendar.

By definition, of course, that is also a new moon.

[Southack]

"The only place where you and I disagree on this is the timeframe. I think it's much sooner. I think the planning for this has gone on for much longer than people realize, and that assets have been in motion for far longer than anyone realizes."

You may very well be right, but I'll be surprised if it happens this year (although the "hit" on Abu Nidal inside Baghdad offers a bit more support to your timeframe than mine, I'll admit).

Heck, I don't even think that Iraq will be the next nation hit (assuming that politics don't override pure military strategy, anyway). We've pretty well got Iraq contained. We're boarding the ships that stop in their harbor, we've got their borders blockaded to some useful degree (though not airtight, obviously), we've got most of the free world embargoing at least the most deadly exports to Iraq, and we fly our fighter jets over their airspace every day, controlling their own skies.

Moreover, Iraq isn't testing long-range missiles and Iraq isn't building a nuclear reactor.

But BOTH North Korea as well as Iran are testing long-range missiles and building nuclear reactors.

We do have North Korea bottled up to some degree, but Iran is wide open right now.

That's where I'd hit first if I was calling the shots. Take out their reactor projects. Take out their long-range missiles. Take out their oppressive regime. Stop their funding of Palestinian terrorists.

Yup, if it was up to me, I'd be slamming Iran right around January as the weather cools off a bit in the Persian desert, saving cold North Korea for the Summer...

[aSkeptic]

Senator InHofe (R-OK): Bush will order iraq attack 'fairly soon', attack is 'immenent'.

obviously not a suprise attack

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks. I'm hardly an expert on this, but isn't that still in the summer (too hot for good military action) time there?

I hope we make a move soon. In any event, I'm sure that GWB and advisors will proceed with the best interest of the USA and our military in mind.

Did you hear Bushs speech on Rush today? What a speech, made even better by the crowds response to the protester. Made me sooooo proud to be an American!

[teletech]

DC, NY and Atlanta...

Right!

[Godfollow]

Look, the Bush administration knew from the get-go that they wouldn't be able to keep everything under wraps. What then do you do? Leak all kinds of stuff through various sources, feign protestations, then pull off the mother of all sucker punches.

Oh how I hope that's true.

[GregB]

Sounds like Al Gore has been lurking around these parts..

[TBall]

Thanks for the replies. I remember thinking that it was quite odd at the time.

[Magnum44]

Congress is only consulted out of courtesy from the executive branch. They are only required for a formal declaration of war. Since this will be legally an extension of the 1991 effort and already blessed by UN resolution, there really is no need for a formal declaration. Now if they choose to declare war, then congress will have to formalize this but there still is no need for them to be in the loop for operational planning or have knowledge of the first strike timing.

[happytobealive]

Thank you for the explanation.

[alphadog]

NVG (Night Vision Googles) work better with a full moon. is all..."we own the night"

[alphadog]

"Put everything together. Common sense tells you that he's (Bush is) a globalist. He's not for America-First."

Amen...