[dirtboy]

Are you blaming Turkey for this delay?

For part of it - I think if had Turkey agreed to basing rights, we would have been ready by the first week of March, maybe earlier. I'm not sure how long it'll take to redeploy the assets and revised the battle plan, but it has to be a factor.

[Wordsmith]

I'm not sure how long it'll take to redeploy the assets and revised the battle plan, but it has to be a factor.

Do you think it's possible that another factor influencing the battle plan is the possibility of Iraqi retaliation against allied civilian targets via terrorist proxies?

[george wythe]

Do you know why President G W H Bush could deploy for war in only two months, while President G W Bush II seems to need so much longer?

I'm baffled