[Cicero]

I assume that the reason President Bush is taking so damn long to attack Iraq relates to the need to replenish criticall supplies that clinton expended in his wag-the-dog misadventures and his stupid war on the wrong side in Yugoslavia. The cruise missile stock was almost completely used up, and many aircraft lacked spare parts. It was said at the time that it would take at least two years for Boeing to restart the assembly lines and make more cruise missiles. Presumably that was true of many other critical components. It wasn't just clinton. It was also Cohen, Shelton, and the whole miserable bunch of sorry excuses that ran the military back then.

[speekinout]

Don't forget that Bush himself used most of the available stock in Afghanistan. And unlike his predecessor in Somalia, he isn't likely to move against Iraq until the military has everything it thinks it might need.