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| Yet another Iraq invasion plan... |
| 2002-08-07 |
| Army General Tommy Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in the Gulf, briefed President George W. Bush at the White House Monday on a new plan for a significantly slimmed down invasion force, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The plan appeared to be the latest installment in a series of military options explored by the Pentagon for ousting Saddam Hussein. The outline presented by Franks was in line with a proposal for an invasion force 50,000 to 80,000-strong backed by heavy air power that has gained support among Bush administration officials, the Journal said. Nope, nope. That's not as good a plan as the one where the Army engineers tunnel into Baghdad from Qatar and the 82nd Airborne pops out hollering "Surprise!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 My own latest whacky suspicion is a combo of the "we're leaking!" and the "take DISinformation, pal!" theories: One of the earlier leaks was a serious, oh crap, honest-to-god leak. Since then we've been carpet-bombed with "plans" to obfuscate the original leak. By the way, did you hear? We've rigged up Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter and Cat Stevens (or whatever we call him, now) with cyanide gas capsules in their fillings. They will each be trying to get missions of peace, "dialogues of civilizations", or whatever, with poor, misunderstood Hussein. If any of them get close enough, they break the capsules and martyr themselves. Senior officials speaking on background have told me that no one really expects it to topple Iraq, but it's a popular plan nontheless... |
| Posted by: Mac 2002-08-07 19:21:28 |