Posted on 09/25/2002 6:00:43 PM PDT by HAL9000
The American flag flies over Taiwan for the first time since 1979.
Bush to have Jiang Zemin to the Crawford ranch October 25.
Qatar is a reality.
We're arranging climate-controlled shelters for B-2's on Diego Garcia.
Saddam harbors al-Qaeda in Baghdad, assists their chemical weapons development, while his agents scour Africa for uranium.
That's uranium, Senator Daschle--you've been studying Uranus.
Let's roll--over the Quislings and through the woods
To Saddam's house we go.
The Air Force knows the way to pull the sleigh
Through the white and drifting o-zone.
They can't - they have to debate seriousssssly the committing of Americaaaan soldiers.
Guess we just have to die. Wonder what Daschle will tell his family about their inability to act on the president's requests?
The trap is to let the Dashholes and Gores of the world question his Iraq initiative, get firmly on the record as opposing the war and then hit them and their weak-kneed Democratic candidates with the evidence conveniently close to the election.
Is this politicizing the war? Yes it is and there is nothing wrong with it. If the Dems want to play to their 60's hippy clientele then they can pay for it in the election which is now only a few weeks away.
They are in a trap and they know it. That is the reason for the Dashhole flare up today. They are desperate to get Bush’s War on Terrorism/Iraqi war poll numbers down. The loss of the Senate and a bigger Republican majority in the house is coming at them like a freight train if they can’t turn this around and they are frightened to death at the prospect.
Brilliant Bush politics in my opinion.
Top Stories - Reuters
U.S. Detects Al Qaeda Camp in Iran - NBC News
Wed Sep 25, 9:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence has detected what appears to be an al Qaeda training camp in a remote region of eastern Iran along the border with Afghanistan ( news - web sites), NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources.
The network said it was told by its sources that overhead imagery of the site shows a suspected terrorist camp that includes a driving course and rifle range very much like al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan that were used to train for assassinations, NBC reported.
NBC quoted the sources as saying that Iran's civilian government may not know the camp exists but that Iranian military and intelligence certainly would.
Asked about the report, a U.S. official said "there are some pockets of al Qaeda in Iran near the border" but would not comment further. A Pentagon ( news - web sites) spokeswoman declined to comment, referring calls to the intelligence community.
The Washington Post reported last month that two top al Qaeda deputies were harbored in Iran along with dozens of al Qaeda fighters.
Iran has denied that al Qaeda members have sought refuge within its borders "It has become a bad habit of some American circles to issue repetitious and baseless charges against Iran. Those al Qaeda members are not in Iran," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told Reuters in response to the earlier report.
Washington has named Iran part of an "axis of evil" accusing it of seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction and sponsoring terrorism, a charge Iran denies.
Heheh.
AND, one by one, the leftist apologists in the Democrat party are marching down the road that leads to irrelevence. Witness: Goron, Daschole, Byrd-brain...
Once the dims have played all of their pre-election cards -- already under way -- GW will play the trump card. Game and match.
Ooohhh! You're good!
Very interesting.
Bush isn't stretching this out in order to play politics. He's stretching it out because Saddam has us by the balls right now. Bush could pick up a phone and Saddam would be dead in 24 hours. He could have done that any time in the last year, he could it today, or tomorrow or at any time in the future. There is no "window of opportunity" for removing Saddam -- Saddam's removal is militarily a trivial exercise for the United States. What isn't trivial is ensuring that Saddam doesn't kill millions of Americans with anthrax during the end game. The rate-determining step in the campaign on Iraq is US civil defense against anthrax attack. By comparison, every other consideration fades into insignificance. That is why Bush is stringing this out, in terms of acting militarily against Saddam, in terms of pointing the finger at Saddam for 9-11, and in terms of identifying the origin of the anthrax letters which followed 9-11.
So what sort of time frame are we looking at for this thing? My guess is that Bush has set himself the goal of removing Saddam from power before his first term in office is out. Three years is probably sufficient to put the appropriate civil defense measures in place, it's not so long as to risk too many new unknowns entering into the equation, and, in an historical sense, it's the mere blink of an eye. Bush has repeatedly reminded us, with respect to the objective of regime change in Iraq, that he is a very patient man. Barring a stroke of luck (good or bad) this will not play out to its conclusion in a matter of weeks or months. We will have Saddam Hussein to kick around for quite some time to come.
Sometimes I'll stand back from my anger at the liberal cancer that is destroying us from within and say to myself "WTF are they talking about...how can anyone be this stupid? They really don't get it, do they?" I don't mind having a difference of opinion with someone, but the liberals stupidity absolutely amazes me.
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U.S. intelligence has detected what appears to be an al Qaeda training camp in a remote region of eastern Iran along the border with Afghanistan, NBC News reported on September 25, 2002, citing unidentified sources. The network said it was told by its sources that overhead imagery of the site shows a suspected terrorist camp that includes a driving course and rifle range very much like al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan that were used to train for assassinations. (Reuters Graphic) - Sep 25 10:29 PM ET |
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