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Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani on Tuesday called the Democratic-controlled Congress' challenge to President Bush's policy in Iraq "a terrible mistake" and equated it with waving a white flag in the war against terrorism. "I can't imagine in the history of war anybody announcing a timetable to run out and retreat," he said at an appearance at a delicatessen in this suburb just over the George Washington Bridge from New York City. "I think it's a terrible mistake. To put up the white flag and announce a timetable for retreat seems like a very bad strategy to me." Giuliani's remarks...

Berlin - The Iraqi regime will fall within the next two weeks, a former aide to President Saddam Hussein, who claims to be in daily contact with senior Iraqi officials, told the German weekly Bild am Sonntag. "I'm convinced that the regime will fall within the next 15 days," said Hatiham Rashid Wihaib on the 11th day of the US-led war against Iraq. "Saddam knows that it is only a question of time. That's why he has prepared an exile in luxury," Wihaib added. The paper did not say where Saddam's exile would be. Wihaib, Saddam's former protocol chief, who...

<p>Nothing up on any wires or webistes I could see, but it was reported by tow different network imbedded reporters so there may be something to it.</p> <p>Its been reported that 4th infantry will be in place by April 1, so I don't know what the stop would be for other than more resupplies.</p>

Berlin - The Iraqi regime will fall within the next two weeks, a former aide to President Saddam Hussein, who claims to be in daily contact with senior Iraqi officials, told the German weekly Bild am Sonntag. "I'm convinced that the regime will fall within the next 15 days," said Hatiham Rashid Wihaib on the 11th day of the US-led war against Iraq. "Saddam knows that it is only a question of time. That's why he has prepared an exile in luxury," Wihaib added. The paper did not say where Saddam's exile would be. Wihaib, Saddam's former protocol chief, who...

Heavy tanks aboard ships are rerouted after Turkey refused to accept forces WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq is providing Pentagon officials with a biting reminder that the nation's most powerful tank divisions can't run to a fight - they have to sail to it, at speeds no faster than about 22 knots. At a time when Army leaders near Baghdad say they want more tanks and artillery to protect their vulnerable supply lines, the nearest heavy armored division is still at least a week away, its soldiers flying in from Texas but its equipment still sailing around the Arabian...

Even before President Bush had placed Iraq on his "axis of evil," dire warnings were being sounded about the danger of acting against Saddam Hussein's regime. Two knowledgeable Brookings Institution analysts, Philip H. Gordon and Michael E. O'Hanlon, concluded that the United States would "almost surely" need "at least 100,000 to 200,000" ground forces [op-ed, Dec. 26, 2001]. Worse: "Historical precedents from Panama to Somalia to the Arab-Israeli wars suggest that . . . the United States could lose thousands of troops in the process." I agree that taking down Hussein would differ from taking down the Taliban. And no ...

Despite the rapid advance of Army and Marine forces across Iraq over the past week, some senior U.S. military officers are now convinced that the war is likely to last months and will require considerably more combat power than is now on hand there and in Kuwait, senior defense officials said yesterday. The combination of wretched weather, long and insecure supply lines, and an enemy that has refused to be supine in the face of American military might has led to a broad reassessment by some top generals of U.S. military expectations and timelines. Some of them see even the...

WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that the United States had no plans to extend a March 17 deadline and would use "military force" if Iraq did not disarm by then. In interviews with various television networks, Powell also that a French U.N. Security Council veto of the second resolution on Iraq would have "very serious" impact on Washington's relations with Paris. Last week, the United States, Britain and Spain presented a resolution in the Security Council seeking its endorsement for the use of force to disarm Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein. France,...

<p>President Bush, whose war plans have been delayed by Turkish intransigence and opposition inside the United Nations, still intends to make good on his 5-week-old promise to disarm Iraq within "weeks, not months."</p> <p>"I can promise you that when he said 'weeks, not months,' he meant it," a senior administration official told The Washington Times late yesterday.</p>

Pentagon sources: U.S. attack on Iraq may be postponed to end of March, beginning of April (Army Radio) [This is all that is available on the News Flash at this time].