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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (31920)6/9/2002 2:18:31 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi LindyBill; Re: "I posted one tactical plan for taking Iraq a couple of days ago. Sounds like the way we are going to go. I don't understand this Kurd/Turk situation, though. If we are backing a Kurd Army to use like we did the Northern Alliance, we are going to have to give them a country out of it. The Turks hate that idea, and we need them for a base of operations. So how do we reconcile this? Inquiring minds want to know."

There's no reconciliation. We're not going. They're just talking. When the diplomats and the military agree on something, it's not possible for the executive branch to pull it off. It's tough enough getting the US into a war that the military supports.

From the "tactical plan": "But last week's Received Wisdom (from Washington's other newspaper) said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had balked at any attempt to remove Saddam before next year, and were lobbying vigorously to not do it at all. Fortunately, according to my sources, that reading of the Joint Chiefs is as wrong as can be. Mr. Bush has decided to remove Saddam. The only remaining issues are when and how." #reply-17563935

In other words, Bush is supposedly going to invade Iraq whether the military says it can be done or not. I'd say that we can safely assume that that isn't going to happen.

-- Carl
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