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To: Wordsmith
The question isn't why the President wouldn't invade with 10,000 troops in September. The question is why their weren't more than 10,000 troops in September,

Given the searing weather in the Gulf during the summer months, I think it was better to stage troops during the winter months. Bush is cutting it a bit close to late April for my liking, but I don't think it takes an ulterior motive or conspiracy to explain the current timeframes.

117 posted on 03/14/2003 12:16:42 PM PST by dirtboy (The Pentagon thinks they can create TIA when they can't even keep track of their own contractors)
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To: dirtboy; The Great Satan
The Great Satan believes that we have been blackmailed by Iraq since the end of the Gulf War. He further feels that President Bush is moving 300,000 troops, enlisting Blair, Aznar, Howard, Berlusconi, all of Eastern Europe, and the entire Pentagon, CIA, and FBI in nothing but show. He believes that this is a stalling action until sometime in 2004.

I have a bet with him, as do some others. Amazingly, although if we don't invade or see Saddam exiled or assassinated by April 1, at which point I lose my bet, I somehow am quite calm, unlike many of the handwringers and armchair generals here.

I believe The Great Satan has read more into events than are warranted. Scooter Libby's belief on the source of the anthrax is not the most expert in the administration, and I didn't really see them covered in the book. Woodward has a habit of picking and choosing phrases, which are not deniable but are inserted in text to push his theories along. I don't know that Woodward has been back to the White House since his book was published, so I have no way of knowing what that situation is. However, I think Cheney's comment was true. At the time (right after September 11), we weren't ready to attack a state sponsor of anthrax. Right now I believe we are.

123 posted on 03/14/2003 12:37:22 PM PST by Miss Marple
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