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To: The Great Satan
The only reason we haven't attacked Iraq to this point was a low inventory of our smart ordinance and the toll the 100 degree-plus Summer heat would exact on U.S. personnel with their special anti-agent protective gear.

Our arsenals are refortified, we've got 100,000 soldiers in the area, our bases in Qatar are ready, the weather is cooling and I am convinced that if given the order today, we we'd have our Special Ops guys in Baghdad by October 15, our Marines by November 15, and our Army footsoldiers and infrastructure there by December 1.

The Iraqi people have no stomach for this. There was a special on the AH-64 attack copter, and they had cockpit video of Iraqi soldiers in Desert Storm walking up to their choppers surrendering. The CWO pilots are going "Are they surrendering? What the hell do we do with these guys!" LOL

The Iraqis remember the imminent and unannounced death that rained down on them, silent and unannounced, from unseen enemies in the sky during the dark of night. That's TERROR!

Saddam won't stay and fight. He'll bolt, he's not a martyr. He'll live well somewhere in Indonesia, he's a billionaire many times over. If he had the capability to launch a chemical or biological attack on Israel he would have done it by now. We control 60% of his country already. He doesn't have the rugged landscape or topography of Iran and Afghanistan. He's a bunker guy, and bunkers are easily found. His scientific work involves too many people, too many foreigners, to be clandestine to native Iraqis. Once Saddam is gone, we'll find every lab and every storehouse just through locals who are no longer terrified to talk and who have kept their eyes open.

1,598 posted on 09/12/2002 2:09:14 PM PDT by ArneFufkin
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To: ArneFufkin
The only reason we haven't attacked Iraq to this point was a low inventory of our smart ordinance and the toll the 100 degree-plus Summer heat would exact on U.S. personnel with their special anti-agent protective gear.

Sorry, but you are dreaming.

1,634 posted on 09/12/2002 5:12:28 PM PDT by The Great Satan
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