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NY Times: Iraq invasion will come in 2003
The Bush administration is plotting a potential major air campaign and ground invasion early next year to topple the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein, the New York Times reported in Sunday editions. The use of 70,000 to 250,000 troops is being considered, the Times said. President Bush has not issued any order for the Pentagon to mobilize its forces, and there is no official plan for an invasion, the newspaper said.There were probably 30 or 40 different accounts of how we were going to take Afghanistan, so enemy war planners could pick one with a pretty good certainty that it would be the wrong one. The number of different "war plans" leaked in the Gulf War was even higher, and none of them resembled what actually happened. So there. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-04-28 |
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