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To: FaultLine who started this subject11/19/2002 9:10:42 PM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
John Keegan: Iraq should be invaded from the North

telegraph.co.uk

So are you gonna do it?

telegraph.co.uk

No sign of war plan as clock ticks on
By John Keegan, Defence Editor
(Filed: 18/11/2002)

Whatever else can be said about President George W Bush as an international statesman, one thing is incontestable. He is a master of prevarication.

An American war against Iraq has been on the cards for most of this year. So far, as the northern hemisphere's winter draws in, its launching seems no nearer than it was in the spring.

In the intervening months, America's talk of war - the talk cannot really be described as threats - has succeeded in perturbing the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury elect, most of their bishops, the governments of France, Germany and Russia, the General Assembly of the United Nations, the combined chattering classes of Europe and the United States, to say nothing of the leaders of the Muslim world and all so far with scarcely an American soldier moved out of barracks.

The situation is reminiscent of nothing so much as the state of Europe in 1805, when Napoleon's enemies trembled under the threat of attack by his Grand Army but the Grand Army lay immobile in its encampments for month after month.

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