From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 10:18:53 MDT
Something tells me it really doesn't matter when the invasion begins.
What matters is that we'll most likely still be in the middle of a
conflict when the 2004 elections roll around. Would the American public
really want to switch regimes in the middle of an armed conflict?
Operation Desert Storm concluded months before the '92 elections. GHW
Bush had a "win" going into the election, but lost anyway. One wonders
what lesson the younger Bush came away with...
-crw.
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 11:34 AM, John K Clark wrote:
> "Damien Sullivan" <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> Wrote:
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>> Last I heard the attack would probably be in October
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> I don't see how it could possibly be that soon, it took 6 moths to
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> for desert storm. And trying to do it on the cheap with some clever
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> scale surprise move would be a bad idea, it might work but then again it
> might not. The price of failure it too great, so if you decide to invade
> Iraq (and I'm not convinced it's a good idea) overwhelming force should
> be immediately available so you can smoothly go to plan B if it turns
> out that plan A is not working. In war you never know.
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> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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