Sept. and October will be a referendum on the war issue with the Bush administration displaying more and more evidence and more and more politicians will support the idea as the election draws near.
Nov. 5. - elections
All of November - Congressional discussions and "allies" in Europe start to back the idea with the mindset of getting in on the action so they don't miss out on the Spoils of the war.
Dec 1, 2002 Congress approves the action by a substantial margin.
Dec 1 - Jan 10 - Pre war build-up. This has actually already started, but will be discussed in the media like it is news.
Jan 11, 2002. Some liberal journalist makes the dire prediction that this time will be different and the U.S. will need 50,000 body bags for an unwinable war lasting several years. This prediction is given hours and hours of repeated media play by a major networks.
Jan 12, 2003 at 9:00 P.M. Baghdad time The air attack commences. It has to be at night so CNN can televise the air show.
Jan 28, 2003. THe ground assault starts out of Turkey.
March 1, 2003 - The liberal journalist is shown to be a knownothing idiot once again. This fact is never mentioned by anybody in the media and is forgotton by all except for a few FReepers who keep tabs on this sort of thing.