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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Dayuhan who wrote (44866)2/26/2002 7:51:56 PM
From: Lane3   of 82486
 
Here's a interesting angle on the war with Iraq, which has gotten some play.

washingtonpost.com

Anti-Iraq Rhetoric Outpaces Reality
Military Not Primed For New War Soon


By Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 24, 2002; Page A01

At Boeing Co.'s high-tech factory in St. Charles, Mo., three shifts are working 24 hours a day turning out smart bombs to replenish Air Force and Navy inventories that ran dangerously low during the Afghan war.

Pentagon planners say it will take six months to produce enough Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), the precision systems that guided 1,000-pound bombs to Taliban and al Qaeda targets, to contemplate an attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. <snip>
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