[info_scout]

>>>>The strategy was to take out the leadership during the first 48 hours (well documented and pretty obvious from events).

>>No, it wasn't. They got a tip and used it. That was NOT part of the plan.

Check back a week or two before the war broke loose. It was leaked. Despite the reports just prior, the decapitation strike was NOT a last-minute tip. It was the strategey.

[Cold Heat]

Check back a week or two before the war broke loose. It was leaked. Despite the reports just prior, the decapitation strike was NOT a last-minute tip. It was the strategey.

The first air strikes on any campaign are ALWAYS command and control.

This particular strike on Saddam was a target of opportunity that had to be approved by Bush. In fact they debated it for two and a half hours while the planes were scrambled and the missle codes were up-loaded and on the way. They could have called it back at any time.

The war really did not start then. this was a simple and basic opportunity that presented it's self. they never anticipated it, not was it part of the plan.

I just so happened that they were about ready to launch the strikes, so there was nothing to loose and everything to gain.

[Howlin]

I can state categorically that that is not true; I happen to know somebody who works IN the White House and I know for a fact that they got the information about where Saddam was that very day. They met all afternoon and they decided about 7:30 to strike.

Live with it.

[nopardons]

W-R-O-N-G , yet again ! Can't YOU ever get even one fact right ?

Go doo a Google, check the FR archieves, and when ( hahahaha ! ) you find uncontrovertable proof, supporting what you aver, then CCP it to this thread.