[The Great Satan]

Don't you know? It takes months and months, just oodles of months, to put our forces in place. And it is just too bad that, with the "blazing heat of the Iraqi summer" upon us again, we're going to have to postpone the whole thing again. Goshed darned it! I just hate it when that happens.

[dirtboy]

And it is just too bad that, with the "blazing heat of the Iraqi summer" upon us again, we're going to have to postpone the whole thing again. Goshed darned it! I just hate it when that happens.

Once again, oh worshipper of the great mind-reader Bob Woodward, peel yourself away from the fiction section long enough to read the news. Turkey waffled for weeks before denying us basing rights for a Northern Front. It takes time to re-deploy troops. March 17th is a full moon, so there are a couple of weeks to play with. Summertime heat doesn't kick in until late April. Plenty of time to shatter the brittle support for Saddam and roll into Baghdad.

There is a good debate to be had here - but not with someone who cites Bob Woodward as a primary source.

[jpl]

Don't you know? It takes months and months, just oodles of months, to put our forces in place. And it is just too bad that, with the "blazing heat of the Iraqi summer" upon us again, we're going to have to postpone the whole thing again. Goshed darned it! I just hate it when that happens.

An associate of mine who shall remain nameless is currently in Kuwait. He tells me that the sandstorms have already started. He says that when they kick up they are so bad that they are almost blinding at times.