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***The Signs Are There: War With Iraq Is Coming SOON***
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Posted on 09/27/2002 10:42:57 AM PDT by The Wizard

I realized today why Dasshole and the rest are screaming:

About a week to ten days from now the War is going to start, (probably the weekend after the congress/the UN passes it's resolution.....**) and anyone who understands how we work can see it, the signs all turned up on TV Monday.

What you may ask gives me this insight?

Well I'll tell you, as it just hit me.....and I had real reservations about posting, (and If the folks here think this should go, pull away)....

Remember the image of the skies over Bagdad during Desert Storm.....well, on Monday both Fox news and CNN launched a midday show about the "War in Iraq", and PMSNBC sent their reporter to an aircraft carrier in the gulf who has started reporting daily about "drills"

As a TV producer it tells me they are positioning themselves to be on air during the night, (Bagdad Time) and already have everything in place to cover what they expect to be a very short war.

In my field you start a week or two ahead to get your viewers in tow, but you don't start a month or two because you'll lose them......

So, at the risk of seeming like a complete fool, the motions of the TV news gatherers tells me we'll be in and over before Halloween.

And the democrats will have to run against a victorious republican President who has just beaten Iraq, liberated Afghanistan and planted the seeds of democracy in Iran at the same time........

No wonder they're pissed:

They wanted GWB to go to the UN, he did.

They wanted him to come to congress, he did.

And now, before the election, he's going to go into Iraq........(and the War will bost the economy as well)

I've said it before and I will say it again:

Don't mess with this Texan, he's too many moves ahead


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To: The Wizard
Thank you for that wonderful article.
21 posted on 09/27/2002 11:03:09 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: Alberta's Child
I honestly believe that if NO television news coverage was available, this war would go on, regardless.

22 posted on 09/27/2002 11:03:17 AM PDT by justshe
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To: The Wizard
Thank you for that wonderful article.
23 posted on 09/27/2002 11:04:01 AM PDT by cubreporter
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To: princess leah
except it's been coming since September 11th 2001
24 posted on 09/27/2002 11:04:06 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: The Wizard
Thanks for the wise words.

May the battle be swift and remove Saddam and his kind.
25 posted on 09/27/2002 11:05:02 AM PDT by freemama
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To: Drammach
and if Bush had been in the White House we would have been in the day after the inspectors were thrown out.
26 posted on 09/27/2002 11:05:29 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: MHGinTN
the next New Moon is October 6, 2002.

October surprise?

27 posted on 09/27/2002 11:05:38 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: The Wizard
If the administration is coordinating a military strike on Iraq with the news media I will never vote for GW Bush or anyone on his team again.

I don't buy your arguement. JMHO.
28 posted on 09/27/2002 11:06:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: freemama
I don't know if they're wise, it just looked like a pettern, and sometimes I can see patterns......

remember, I could be very wrong.......

29 posted on 09/27/2002 11:06:51 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't think wizard was saying that....
30 posted on 09/27/2002 11:07:23 AM PDT by carton253
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To: The Wizard
I think the signs are there--but not until after the election. Bush promised Daschle and Gebheardt that he could not pull an "October surprise" by starting the war just before the election. I don't think he'd go back on his word, absent some crucial change in the equasion.

However, the Wesnesday after the Tuesday election...
31 posted on 09/27/2002 11:07:34 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the administration ISN'T corordinating with the media, the media is just seeing things that are tipping them off "to be ready"
32 posted on 09/27/2002 11:07:59 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: The Wizard
Saddam did call a meeting of his high counsel today suspiciously..
33 posted on 09/27/2002 11:08:15 AM PDT by tip of the sword
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To: The Wizard
No way. Bush has made it clear there will bo no October surprise. It would be bad politics. That's not to say there could not be some sort of incident which may accelerate the time table to before the election. If Iraq were to launch pre-emptively against Israel, Qatar, Kiwait or Saudi, we would respond quickly.

Something else explains the Dems behavoir: they know they are losing as of right now and they want to change the picture. Six weeks is a long, long time in politics.
34 posted on 09/27/2002 11:09:46 AM PDT by BillCompton
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To: The Wizard
You may very well be right, but I think it's a little too early. It may be that they intend to start small by attacking airbases, Scuds, radar sites, etc. from the air and with specials ops. If so we can move now, with what is in place, but it's too early for an invasion.
35 posted on 09/27/2002 11:10:28 AM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon
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To: The Wizard
War will boast the economy? Keynesian clap-trap! Wars depress, not "boast," the economy. Bush I's Gulf War is the most recent example but there are many others.
36 posted on 09/27/2002 11:11:45 AM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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To: The Wizard
I agree ......By Oct 22.
37 posted on 09/27/2002 11:11:53 AM PDT by cmsgop
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To: wildbill
I wondered about that too, but if I read it right, playing by clinton's rules, if he calls them in ahead of time, it won't be a surprize, right.....

he gives the go code, then meets with the leaders of congress, and announces a TV address for that night.....

and for the record, breaking a promise to dasshole, who might use the information for political reasons, is justifiable and doesn't upset me

38 posted on 09/27/2002 11:11:56 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: The Wizard
I don't think we'll hit Saddam anytime soon. I think he'll hit us again before we hit him.
39 posted on 09/27/2002 11:12:01 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: The Wizard
HERE IS MORE:

Journalists flocking to Baghdad a bad omen

From the International Desk
Published 9/26/2002 1:09 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Foreign journalists have begun to flock to Baghdad, a bad omen for Iraqis who see it as a sign that war is coming while the government sees it as an opportunity to put across its side of the story.

For many Iraqis, the influx of news media-types is reminiscent of the 1991 Gulf War that drew a horde of newsmen to the Iraqi capital.

But Iraqi authorities have seized the opportunity to take visiting journalists on tours to show them places where the government insists there are no weapons of mass destruction though the United States and Britain suspect otherwise.

A big event coming up on Oct. 15 for journalists to cover is the referendum on approving a further term in office for President Saddam Hussein. At the same time, reporters are monitoring the reactions of the Iraqi people and leaders to developments in the United States as the Bush administration continues to prepare for a military strike to depose Saddam while politicians and pundits argue over whether going to war is a good idea.

Exceptionally, CNN, the American television news channel that won itself a starring position with its coverage of the 1991 Persian Gulf War from Baghdad, has stayed on here ever since.

Now other U.S. news channels, including Fox News, ABC News and NBC, are asking for entry visas for their correspondents.

So many media types are expected that the Information Ministry has felt obliged to enlarge its media center.

Copyright © 2002 United Press International

  http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020926-123213-1031r

40 posted on 09/27/2002 11:12:03 AM PDT by Reborn
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