Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the point of the Downing Street memo that the Bush administration had started the buildup towards the invasion in the summer of 2002? Which everybody knew? Building new camps in Kuwait and Qatar and prepositioning materiel?
Remember the long running bet with Carl about whether we'd actually do it? If I recall correctly that started in July, 2002. SI search function doesn't work for this, and I am too cheap to pay for membership.
No, wait, here's the satellite photo of the new base in Qatar, that's June, 2002. That's when we all knew, or should have known.
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Because the only thing that could have stopped it was Saddam changing his spots, and the leopard doesn't change his spots.
And if the base in Qatar was that far along June 2002 then they started it no later than spring 2002.
What were we supposed to do? I mean, I know, wait around forever, but what were we supposed to do, using ordinary common sense. |
