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To: greggy
...They suspect that Saddam is playing the same fog-of-war game as Washington, so as to put them to sleep and then catch them unawares.

Yeah, right. Dream on. When the move against Iraq happens, it will be like sh*t through a goose.

25 posted on 08/10/2002 9:44:54 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
We couldnt get Saddam last time... what makes anyone think our goals will be different this time, with respect to killing the guy?
26 posted on 08/10/2002 9:47:12 PM PDT by Righter-than-Rush
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Yeah, right. Dream on. When the move against Iraq happens, it will be like sh*t through a goose.

I expect like you that conquering Iraq won't be a big problem in terms of US troop loss or whatever, but I think Debka has a point too. Saddam has known we were coming for 11 months now. He has bio weapon capabilities. We have porous borders. You've got to believe he's thought about planting a terrorist attack ready to go in this country. How serious it would be depends on various factors-- e.g. his technical ability to aerosolize and spread some agent-- but if one American comes down with ebola or smallpox, it will be major panic. (Right now, emergency rooms are seeing serious traffic from people fearing, mistakenly, that they have nile fever.) Also, if he has the capability of torching Saudi oil fields (which I'm far from sure about, but maybe) that would be a major deal too.

IMHO we should have moved in there by October 11 to forestall these possibilities.

60 posted on 08/11/2002 4:41:40 AM PDT by Linda Liberty
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