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2002-12-07 Axis of Evil

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-12-07 09:52 am|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Once again, we see the "wisdom" of Colin Powell's approach. The U.N. was built to prevent any effective use of power. Blix this week said he would not offer any Iraqi scientists assistance in defecting, because that would offend the sovereignty of a U.N. member state. Yet, our intelligence about Iraq's WMD programs all comes from defecting scientists and military officers.

Now Blix is withholding the disclosure documents from the U.S. until he has had a chance to review them himself. The UN is acting more as a conspirator with Saddam than as an enforcer of its own resolutions.

I wonder how long Bush is going to play nice before he's had enough and gives Rumsfeld the nod.
Probably until the Pentagon has all its ducks in a row for invasion.

Posted by AST 2002-12-07 12:47:32|| [www.cockalorum.blogspot.com] 2002-12-07 12:47:32|| Front Page Top

#2 "Ducks in a row"?

Ferchrissakes, we're the single greatest nation on the planet and we're supposed to need more than a year to get our forces together to bitchslap a shitty, third-rate Middle East thugocracy?

Posted by Emperor Misha I 2002-12-07 13:06:41|| [nicedoggie.net] 2002-12-07 13:06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, not just a blitchslap but a bitchslap when we suffer no more than 10 casualties. The moment 11th soldier is lost the media will call for unilateral withdrawal. So yes, it takes a year to draw up plans.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-07 14:11:57|| 2002-12-07 14:11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 If the Pentagod didn't already have the plans drawn up, the entire Joint Chiefs need to be sacked. It's their job to be ready for ANYTHING.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2002-12-07 14:54:07|| [www.kloognome.com] 2002-12-07 14:54:07|| Front Page Top

#5 C'mon, guys, it's more than just getting our order of battle pulled together. We need sufficient logistics, and that takes a while. We need favorable weather -- bad weather hurts the Iraqi military more than us, but the right weather helps us more than them. We need to let the UN comedy-drama play out the third act to give some of our nervous friends the cover they need to support us.

Figure, all things considered, D-day is sometime in mid-February.

Posted by Steve White 2002-12-07 15:44:30|| 2002-12-07 15:44:30|| Front Page Top

#6 infowars.com infowars.com infowars.com

let the real truth be known

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-07 21:45:51|| [infowars.com] 2002-12-07 21:45:51|| Front Page Top

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