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PLAN FOR ATTACK: QUICK & SNEAKY
New York Post ^
| 9/30/02
| NILES LATHEM
Posted on 09/30/2002 1:18:53 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:09:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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September 30, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Pentagon generals are assembling a Space Age Iraq war plan that calls for a lightning assault on the pillars of Saddam Hussein's power from multiple directions - while leaving the bulk of his civilian and military infrastructure intact.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
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posted on
09/30/2002 1:18:53 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
One would hope they'd bomb all of Saddam's palaces-arsenals on the first night.
To: kattracks
Well gee whiz rummie... this makes the fifteenth super secret, top of the shelf "war plan" we have had discussed in the press in as many days...
To: Robert_Paulson2
Exactly! So, which will it be, Saddam?
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posted on
09/30/2002 1:27:53 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Sounds very good, odds of success are good, however I would not particularly want to be one of the ground troops. There may be an unseen part of the equation, one that could spell disaster. The major influence predicting success is the past behavior of Iraqi troops.
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posted on
09/30/2002 1:28:37 AM PDT
by
cynicom
To: kattracks
So, which will it be, Saddam?None of 'em
6
posted on
09/30/2002 1:38:38 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
To: uglybiker
This will be the B2's war to show off. This will be just like 10 years ago when everybody talked about the F117. These guys (B2 pilots) will hit Baghdad so hard it will make Hussein's head spin.
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posted on
09/30/2002 1:44:55 AM PDT
by
GOPyouth
To: Robert_Paulson2
The people who know, are not talking. These are people who don't know but are talking.
To: SubMareener
I have a feeling the people who know told the people who don't know many different stories. And the people who don't know did as was expected, and printed them all.
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posted on
09/30/2002 2:05:43 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
During the cold war, there was one set of codewords used for space systems when talking to Congress and one set used when talking internally. Guess which set got into the papers?
To: kattracks
The piece of this I like is the "oil fields" piece.
We have the northern no-fly zone and the southern no-fly zone. We have eliminated the chem/bio offensive capability.
The oil fields are the Iraqi's money-line. What more needs being done than taking those oil fields. Starve him out financially while supplying food for his people with the cash gained from an Opec-controlled escrow of Iraqi oil money.
No weapons money.
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posted on
09/30/2002 5:11:55 AM PDT
by
xzins
To: kattracks
Rumsfeld said forcefully last week, "the people who know aren't talking, and the people who don't know are putting soldier's lives in danger playing an irresponsible press game."
What part of Rumsfeld's statements doesn't the NY Post understand?
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posted on
09/30/2002 5:42:01 AM PDT
by
randita
To: GOPyouth
This will be the B2's war to show off. This will be just like 10 years ago when everybody talked about the F117. These guys (B2 pilots) will hit Baghdad so hard it will make Hussein's head spin.
The great thing about the B-2 is that it has the same characteristics as the 117 with a much greater bombload. And each bomb will be gps guided. Don't be surprised if each palace gets hit by a BLU-82 Thermobaric or a bunker buster.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
09/30/2002 5:58:04 AM PDT
by
section9
To: kattracks
QUICK and Sneaky?
Come on, Iraq has known about the attack plan for months now...
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posted on
09/30/2002 6:58:52 AM PDT
by
vannrox
To: kattracks
SSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BE VEWY VEWY QUIET ITS A SNEAK ATTACK YOU KNOW
THESE MAY OR NOT BE THE PLANS BUT EITHER WAY WHY DOESNT THE MEDIA SHUT UP!
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