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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.

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.

Sorry, but 130 degree temps for several months would be highly dehabilitating to forces attempting to stage. Bush is cutting it closer than I would like, but Turkey kinda screwed us, so it's taking a bit of time to adjust.

I've about had enough on this thread. You folks can rip into Bush for taking ONE ENTIRE MONTH longer than his pappy did to stage forces in Kuwait. I think I'll see if I can find something more productive to do, such as arrange the shirts in my closet in some kind of chromatic sequence.