[N. Theknow]

Well, it needs to start soon otherwise we are into the terrible Iraqi winter months since this will be a long, drawn-out war with bloody street fighting, and house to house combat and (OH, NO!) the dreaded, "vaunted Republican Guard" and the entire population of Iraq and then are the Kurds really to be trusted and what about Iran.....

[LonePalm]

I picked the 6th of October because it is the new moon. The next new moon is the Sunday before the elections. Bush would be accused of playing politics and there wouldn't be enough time to win sufficient battlefield victories.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Well, it needs to start soon otherwise we are into the terrible Iraqi winter months...

Would that be anything like the Brutal Afghan Winter we kept hearing warnings about? :-)

[justshutupandtakeit]

"...terrible Iraqi winter months...."? The winters there are nothing special certainly not as bad as Chicago.