Attack on Iraq Betting Pool

Friday, August 30, 2002 | Momaw Nadon

[Momaw Nadon]

It seems like an attack on Iraq is coming soon.

Place your bet as to when the attack will begin.

Whoever gets closest to the date and time wins.

Attack time must be specified in Month, Day, Year, Hour, and Minute

For the hour, don't forget to specify what time zone you are referring to.

There is no decision on a prize to be awarded yet except for bragging rights.

[Reborn]

Well, my birthday is October the 20th, so how 'bout 10/20 at 5:17 Central Standard Time,lol.

[Kermit]

I think I got everyone up to post #222. I set all times to EST, subtract 8 hours from Iraqi time, 5 hours from Zulu/GMT, added 1 hour to CST and 3 hours to Pacific. Where needed, I adjusted the date, since many people were picking an early AM attack, Iraq would already be the next day.

1. 8/13/02 1:00 pm Diddle E. Squat
2. 9/2/02 8:00 pm crystalk
3. 9/4/02 9:00 am Judith Anne
4. 9/6/02 3:10 am Lawdoc
5. 9/6/02 6:00 pm Straight Vermonter
6. 9/6/02 7:00 pm Lurker
7. 9/6/02 11:00 pm Jimma
8. 9/7/02 4:30 pm TheLurkerX
9. 9/7/02 4:30 pm Forgiven Sinner
10. 9/7/02 8:00 pm John 11:25
11. 9/7/02 10:00 pm John 11:25
12. 9/8/02 5:00 pm CIB-173RDABN
13. 9/8/02 7:45 pm mhking
14. 9/10/02 4:00 am Poor Muttly
15. 9/10/02 3:30 pm Don Carlos
16. 9/10/02 6:30 pm Santos L. Halper
17. 9/10/02 7:44 pm fiftymegaton
18. 9/10/02 8:00 pm nevergore
19. 9/11/02 12:00 am Outlaw76
20. 9/11/02 12:01 am Partisan Hack
21. 9/11/02 12:01 am wattsmag2
22. 9/11/02 8:46 am sheik yerbouty
23. 9/11/02 9:00 am Screaming Gerbil
24. 9/11/02 9:00 am ptrey
25. 9/11/02 7:00 pm finnman69
26. 9/14/02 2:33 pm Xenalyte
27. 9/14/02 5:13 pm templar
28. 9/14/02 7:00 pm Lancy Howard
29. 9/15/02 6:34 pm It is a religion of peace
30. 9/20/02 6:00 pm j.havenfarm
31. 9/21/02 11:45 pm Cindy
32. 9/30/02 10:00 am piano man
33. 10/1/02 7:00 pm widgysoft
34. 10/2/02 6:30 am Gunrunner2
35. 10/4/02 2 hrs sunset nina
36. 10/5/02 1:30 pm Constitution Day
37. 10/5/02 8:00 pm Zeitgeist Surfer
38. 10/5/02 8:30 pm skeeter
39. 10/6/02 10:32 am the painster
40. 10/6/02 3:30 pm hchutch
41. 10/6/02 8:10 pm Remole
42. 10/7/02 12:00 pm dmeara
43. 10/8/02 4:10 pm Jambe
44. 10/8/02 6:30 pm ncweaver
45. 10/11/02 5:00 am Julie RNR21
46. 10/12/02 10:20 pm Lucius Cornelius Sulla
47. 10/13/02 3:37 pm inflorida
48. 10/24/02 9:38 am Dengar01
49. 10/28/02 5:03 pm ol’ Spanky
50. 10/30/02 6:00 pm Hugin
51. 11/1/02 4:30 pm Freedom Poster
52. 11/2/02 5:21 pm stremba
53. 11/2/02 7:00 pm hattend
54. 11/5/02 7:00 am Brytani
55. 11/5/02 11:01 pm Vermont Lt
56. 11/6/02 8:00 pm American in Tokyo
57. 11/7/02 7:00 pm Attman
58. 11/8/02 5:00 pm TankerKC
59. 11/10/02 11:30 am lwoodham
60. 11/10/02 7:17 pm Husker24
61. 11/11/02 12:15 pm Conservative Dr Pepper Drinker
62. 11/11/02 7:05 pm dhtnc
63. 11/11/02 10:59 pm MinuteGal
64. 11/12/02 1:08 pm John in Missouri
65. 11/15/02 1:00 pm Surfin
66. 11/15/02 4:00 pm sungirl
67. 11/18/02 6:00 pm demlosers
68. 11/19/02 10:30 pm Cap and Ball
69. 11/21/02 7:02 pm Aggie Mama
70. 11/22/02 6:00 pm Petronski
71. 12/2/02 8:00 am mware
72. 12/2/02 7:00 pm wimpycat
73. 12/3/02 3:36 pm Prodigal Son
74. 12/3/02 7:28 pm Alberta’s Child
75. 12/4/02 3:00 pm cajungirl
76. 12/4/02 5:30 pm Jedi Master Yoda
77. 12/4/02 7:30 pm Mike Darancette
78. 12/6/02 6:00 pm Houston Curmudgeon
79. 12/6/02 7:00 pm Lonesome in Massachusetts
80. 12/7/02 6:00 pm self evident
81. 12/10/02 2:00 pm LaGrone
82. 12/20/02 6:29 pm Ladtx
83. 12/27/02 7:18 pm Right to Life
84. 1/2/03 2:17 pm Momaw Nadon
85. 1/14/03 7:00 am what’s up
86. 1/15/03 3:00 pm Maquiladora
87. 1/15/03 6:38 pm Brian Allen
88. 1/22/03 11:00 am Cyber Cowboy777
89. 1/26/03 6:33 pm panther33
90. 1/27/03 2:30 pm peedee
91. 1/31/03 10:00 pm ohioman
92. 2/3/03 babble on
93. 2/5/03 1:14 pm Dog Gone
94. 2/13/03 9:30 pm Kryptonite
95. 2/23/03 2:00 pm Bikers 4 Bush
96. 3/6/03 6:00 pm I hired Craig Livingstone
97. 3/14/03 3:00 pm putupon
98. 3/16/03 7:00 pm Kensei
99. 11/7/03 3:59 pm F16Fighter
100. never BiffaloBull
101. never willgetsome

[Reborn]

I didn't see post 221 in there, lol. (10/20)

[Momaw Nadon]

Thank you very much for organizing the attack on Iraq predictions into a chronological list!!!

It must have taken a bit of time to get everything organized and adjusted for the time zones.

After all that work I think you forgot to include a prediction of your own! LOL!

For all those who have not yet made a prediction, you are still welcome to do so, as the Attack on Iraq Betting Pool is still open.

[mewzilla]

I'd like to pick 9-11 8:48 am EST, if that's not to close to the sheikh's pick of 8:46.

[GeekDejure]

I predict it will happen 1 second after it actually happens !!!

I hereby donate my prize to Jim Robinson !!!

[Bounceback]

December 25, 2002, at 5:00 p.m. EST (2:00 a.m., December 26, 2002 Baghdad, Iraq time).

[RJayneJ]

November 11, 2002 at 7:45 EST

[CreekerFreeper]

12/1/2002 @ 9:03 Baghdad time. The first day of Christian Advent.

[meyer]

My bet is 9/11/02 at 0900 hrs, EST.

[Kermit]

I didn't forget a prediction, I don't have one yet. Waiting for that ESP flash of insight, but then I'll have to keep it top secret.;^)

[rmabee]

October 15, 2002, 22:30 Bagdad time

[CharacterCounts]

Here is the time table: Sept. 12 - Bush in his speech to the U.N. puts the issue into serious play.

Sept. and October will be a referendum on the war issue with the Bush administration displaying more and more evidence and more and more politicians will support the idea as the election draws near.

Nov. 5. - elections

All of November - Congressional discussions and "allies" in Europe start to back the idea with the mindset of getting in on the action so they don't miss out on the Spoils of the war.

Dec 1, 2002 Congress approves the action by a substantial margin.

Dec 1 - Jan 10 - Pre war build-up. This has actually already started, but will be discussed in the media like it is news.

Jan 11, 2002. Some liberal journalist makes the dire prediction that this time will be different and the U.S. will need 50,000 body bags for an unwinable war lasting several years. This prediction is given hours and hours of repeated media play by a major networks.

Jan 12, 2003 at 9:00 P.M. Baghdad time The air attack commences. It has to be at night so CNN can televise the air show.

Jan 28, 2003. THe ground assault starts out of Turkey.

March 1, 2003 - The liberal journalist is shown to be a knownothing idiot once again. This fact is never mentioned by anybody in the media and is forgotton by all except for a few FReepers who keep tabs on this sort of thing.

[11B3]

Wonderful - FR's new voice of "morality" comes from the People's Republic of California. Real fortitude out there. The Meek Shall Inherit the Sh!t. After this all takes place, I'll be sure to let you know that the rest of us all say "I TOLD YOU SO!"

[11B3]

November 6th, 9:30 PM Baghdad time, opening with re-entry of ICBM MIRVs armed with conventional explosives. Follow on with EMP cruise missiles and F-117/Aurora strikes.

[Audit_Jesse]

November 28, 2002 @ 22:37 EST.

[FenianOfEire]

03 October 2002, 2300(Baghdad), 0900 Mountain Standard(I believe it's a 14 hour time difference)

[Greybird]

You're cutting all of us off the map out here, past Lake Tahoe? Including this very Website, in Fresno? Jim Robinson would be SO pleased to hear that one.

Bigotry due to geographical location is just as stupid as any other kind. You're writing off many principled people stuck here behind the statists' lines. Including conservatives and libertarians (and even an occasional liberal) who take war far too seriously to make facile, puerile little "bets" about it.