Posted on 09/16/2002 12:49:20 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
September 16, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials fear that Saddam Hussein has concocted a doomsday plan that would use al Qaeda to attack America with Iraqi-provided biological weapons, The Post has learned.
The threat has been raised in secret intelligence assessments provided to top military officials and White House policymakers as they prepare for war, administration officials told The Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Exactly the President's point, although why some (notably Leftists/Dems) refuse to get it is beyond me. Politics aside, they and their families are just as vulnerable as the rest of us to use of WMD by nutcases like Saddam and any radical Islamists he decides to use as agents.
It looks like the public is being prepared for the possibility of a bio-attack, without mentioning how likely that attack is.
The truth is, the probability is very high. The question is when?
One view holds that Saddam has used the threat of a biological attack as a deterent against attack by the United States. I suspect that has been the case in the past. However, regardless of whether this has been the case in the past or not, it is clear that we are currently getting ready to attack. We are not currently deterred, and Saddam must certainly realize this.
Which raises the question: Given the inevitability of a U.S. attack, will Saddam wait until we attack him, or will he strike us first?
If he decides to wait he runs the risk that we will be able to kill him at the start of the attack. He is quite interested in his own survival (evidently his 72 virgins and 3 young boys can wait). So he may conclude that a first strike is his best shot.
A first strike is certain to result in the retaliatory destruction of Iraq, but not necessarily in Saddam's personal destruction. If he can make his blow strong enough, he may believe he can weaken us enough to prevent us from being able to physically root him out of whatever shelter he is hiding in.
If he thinks he is cooked either way, then I suspect he will strike first in an attempt to bring as many of us down with him as possible.
Ultimately, I believe Saddam will do whatever he thinks optimizes his chances for long-term survival.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
I don't think he realizes anything of the sort. This is a game of Chicken: the outcome is still unknown.
You: I don't think he realizes anything of the sort. This is a game of Chicken: the outcome is still unknown.
Maybe at one time it was, but I don't see it that way now. To be a game of chicken, each side must believe the other side may eventually back down.
Personally, I think President Bush has gone too far to back down now. Likewise with Saddam.
I agree completely, however, that the outcome is still unknown. Most Americans vastly underestimate how serious a major attack on us could be. The stakes are incredibly high.
Yea... so what? I don't listen to a rapist/traitor.
We are here. Let them come to find our mettle and the wrath of our sword. Let their God sort them out!
Saddam will be having lunch in a dumpster soon. Life goes topsy-turvy sometimes.
Go dig a bigger hole junior.
LOL. We'd like to get off the various "lists" while Sabertooth wants to get on them. Saber if you want in, initiation is to engage in activities like buying ammo on line or say something foul about the BATF.
It's very easy to join our "club" and there is plenty of room for you on various data bases!
Now on a serious side I will make a moot point to this group of friends here on FR..............When the SHTF in Iraq I strongly suggest ya'll watch yer six real close. I don't think this one is gonna be a cake walk here at home..........just my chicken little society SWAG.
Albeit my Ernest T. Bass Rock chuckin attitude says bring it on as I have more @ss than the Iraqi's have teeth ...........
Stay Safe !
"This is what we are most concerned about and what we are working hardest on," said one high-ranking official.
Good thing we closed our borders on 9/11/01...Doh !
Pro-Carnivore BTTT...
I may be fat and fifty plus but somehow I think I can still dish it out when somebody comes lookin for me or my country. You know I agree about instincts regarding the home front
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
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