[george wythe]

Why do you choose September to start your calculation, and not July for example?

President G W H Bush did not wait for a UN resolution to start military movement.

[Wordsmith]

Dirtboy said above that he thinks the reason is that the President didn't want to start deploying troops during the summer heat. Of course, this doesn't square with a smart President not wanting to bump up against a deadline that would force him to fight the actual war in the summer heat. If the President knew that it would take 6 months to deploy, but waited until September to begin, and knew that he couldn't launch the war after April, that means he didn't build any time in to his calculations for possible delays due to diplomacy, reluctant allies, and so on. I don't think the President is as short-sighted as dirtboy seems to be suggesting.

[dirtboy]

Why do you choose September to start your calculation, and not July for example?

Well, it's interesting that you are now asking for TWO extra months. You said that Bush was planning to go to war against Iraq a month before the September UN resolution - which, last I checked, would have been August - which, if you really, really need that extra month to make your point, would mean that it has taken Bush seven months instead of six from the time he decided. So you are now quibbling, under the loosest interpretation possible BY YOUR OWN TALKING POINTS, that Bush has ** GASP ** taken a FULL MONTH LONGER than his pappy to field an offensive military force - and his objective is not to liberate a runt country like Kuwait, but to invade a country the size of California.

Has it occurred to you just how ridiculous this line of attack is?