Posted on 09/27/2002 10:42:57 AM PDT by The Wizard
I realized today why Dasshole and the rest are screaming:
About a week to ten days from now the War is going to start, (probably the weekend after the congress/the UN passes it's resolution.....**) and anyone who understands how we work can see it, the signs all turned up on TV Monday.
What you may ask gives me this insight?
Well I'll tell you, as it just hit me.....and I had real reservations about posting, (and If the folks here think this should go, pull away)....
Remember the image of the skies over Bagdad during Desert Storm.....well, on Monday both Fox news and CNN launched a midday show about the "War in Iraq", and PMSNBC sent their reporter to an aircraft carrier in the gulf who has started reporting daily about "drills"
As a TV producer it tells me they are positioning themselves to be on air during the night, (Bagdad Time) and already have everything in place to cover what they expect to be a very short war.
In my field you start a week or two ahead to get your viewers in tow, but you don't start a month or two because you'll lose them......
So, at the risk of seeming like a complete fool, the motions of the TV news gatherers tells me we'll be in and over before Halloween.
And the democrats will have to run against a victorious republican President who has just beaten Iraq, liberated Afghanistan and planted the seeds of democracy in Iran at the same time........
No wonder they're pissed:
They wanted GWB to go to the UN, he did.
They wanted him to come to congress, he did.
And now, before the election, he's going to go into Iraq........(and the War will bost the economy as well)
I've said it before and I will say it again:
Don't mess with this Texan, he's too many moves ahead
If it were that simple.
My feeling is that Saddam is to meglomaniacal to go that route. He strikes me as more the, "I'm gonna die anyway, I might as well take you with me" type of guy...
Exactly.
That would explain Donohue & Matthews on the tube this week playing pattycake and jumping up and down together...
Do the words all hell breaks loose mean anything to you?
My guess is he'll take the villa in Algiers over personal annihilation. But, you're correct that we can't count on that. The stakes are way too high for that. That is why we won't be confronting Saddam in Baghdad any time soon. Wouldn't be prudent. That will be left for the end of the campaign, once we are ready on the home front.
Or at least you believe it is possible?
Sorry to doubt you but do you have a link to the post where you scooped everyone?
The U.S. is going to wage a war against Iraq because Saddam Hussein is an evil jerk who has been developing "weapons of mass destruction" for the last decade. And yet representatives in the U.S. media are now booking hotel rooms in Baghdad and securing bunks at U.S. military facilities throughout the Middle East, in anticipation of this so-called "war."
Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong with this picture?
So it makes a melody?
Anyway...how'bout that "I called Afghanistan" scoop link.
Something wrong? No, you're not the only one. But this is the reality in the ratings-driven world of television news.
Remember - CBS News has already staked out a strategic rooftop across from St. Peter's Square (and has had a huge deposit on it for the better part of the last decade) for when Pope John Paul dies and the period until a new pontiff is selected by the College of Cardinals.
'Tis a strange business, but it is business as usual for them.
2. I could care less whether you belive it or not. You have the opportunity to express yourself here as have I, so enjoy
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