[what i think]

we've made a terrible mistake in assuming turkey would help us. those ships will have to be moved now to kuwait. i have heard that it will delay deployment by over 30 days, taking us more and more into the summer months.
bush should horsewhip the team that was in charge of this.

[Dirk McQuickly]

I don't think anyone assumed anything. Do you really think the start of this war hinged on Turkey? Heard a special ops' guy on NPR this morning saying that the U.S. military has improved by a factor of TEN since the first Gulf war, and the Iraqi army has regressed by HALF. We are going to be dropping so many bombs on Baghdad and Tikrit in the first 48 hours, there is little doubt in my mind that this war can be one with half of what we have over there now. My guess is that the Iraqi army will turn on the palace within the first 24 hours.