US Forces on Alert for Possible Movement Near Korea

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | Monday, February 3, 2003 | Reuters

[onedoug]

If they start across, blast 'em at the border. Tac-Nuc if needs be. They need to understand this.

[Dog Gone]

But NK has said that if we take it the UN it's a declaration of war. That's probably BS, but we do have to prepared in case they're not joking this time.

[Dog Gone]

take it TO the UN...

sorry. That's what the preview is for.....

[caa26]

Thanks. March 3rd seems like the most likely date, if the War is going to start under the cover of a new moon. But, I'm thinking the stuff is going to hit the fan before then. Really I have no idea, I think the US might try squeeze out Saddam first by building military pressure around Baghdad.

[Terriergal]

ROFL!!!!!

[Terriergal]

now.. is that what we want to be talking about?

[El Gato]

I know the South Korean force is a good one. Well Trained. Do you know their #s? Added to our guys?

Something on the order of 600,000 active, all branches, 500k Army. Several million reservists. Figures may be old and the numbers a bit lower now. Our 37,000 are a drop in the bucket and are there to serve as a tripwire, aka "Speedbump".

[El Gato]

it seems like B-52's would be of limited utility

They'd use the cruise missles to knock out the air defenses. They might also be used against the advancing NK hordes, which would not have quite as effective air defense as the North itself. (How many hordes per sortie can a BUFF handle anyway? ;) )

[cmsgop]

Thank You,

Plus we have all that Kick A$$ S$it!!!!! LOL!!!!!

[El Gato]

It's close enough right now, if barely. The new moon was Feb 1 at 10:50 GMT the next one is on Mar 3 at 02:36 GMT, according to this NASA site

[Tennessee_Bob]

The figure I've seen is 1 million troops

Sure - go ahead - put them in huge masses again - cuts down on how many B-61's we have to use.

[cavtrooper21]

A speed bump with big nasty sharp pointy teeth (oh yea, and lots and lots of guns, ATGMs and other things that will do a good job of reducing NK's population problem)

[El Gato]

They have what,.......7 million?

Only if you count everyone with some reserve/militia committment. Active forces are around 1,127,000, with an even million of that being Army. "Real" reserves of about 1/2 million for the Army.

[cmsgop]

Thanks for that fact. I keep hearing this 7 million figure.

I figure an Ad from Pizza Hut™ could disarm half of them right of the bat.........:*)

[blam]

"Won't they have to get those inspectors out,and the world will know when that happens, won't it?"

There is a C-130 sitting in Baghdad just for this purpose. It is capable of taking all the inspectors out on one flight.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

War in Iraq within a week.....two on the outside.

I would have thought this too if you would have asked me 4 months ago. If you asked me a year ago, I would have predicted that we would be kicking Saddam's ass up around the moon by now. With the pace that things are moving, we'll be at war with Iraq by election day 2004.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND OUR ALLIES

[Robert_Paulson2]

apparently around 670,000.
with our help... maybe 720,000 on the ground.

who knows what ASSETS might be overhead, as we speak, or how many cruise equipped subs are in proximity... in addition to the kitty hawk or vinson...

It would NOT surprise me if we did NK before we did IRAQ.

[Ruger1099]

I feel sorry for President Bush. This man has gone through alot in his 2+ years as President.

The episode with China and our spy plane, Enron and all the other Enrons, September 11, the Columbia, Iraq, North Korea, etc.. The man has probably mentally aged 20 years. Clinton had it easy compared to Bush.

May God be with our President.

[Grampa Dave]

Reuters would do anything to divert a war with their Uncle Soddomite.

Hell, they would pay for some third world country to start a war with us to divert/deter the upcoming war with Iran.