The point is we are ready have been ready and because of our trying to get the UN on board we are being made to look like fools!
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White Says Army Ready for Whatever President Asks
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2002 -- The Army is ready for whatever President Bush asks it to do, Army Secretary Thomas White said during a press roundtable here Oct. 31.
White stressed the president has not made a decision on using force in Iraq, but said that the service is ready to carry out any mission.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2002/n10312002_200210313.html
Nowhere do any of your posts support you assertion that we had all ours assets in place in September. It's all standard military boilerplate "We are ready to do whatever the Commander-in-Cheif asks of us".