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To: Bilow who wrote (44862)	9/17/2002 4:10:03 PM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Your histogram comparing '91 to '02 is (I'll be generous) extremely misleading and in my view should be discounted utterly. 1. The US don't need 220 ships to get it done: The Navy can now call on about 20 massive new* roll-on roll-off vessels, up to five times larger than the latest commercial vessel.* 2. Iraq's army has been reduced in size some 50 - 60%, any US invasion force will probably be proportionally smaller thus obviating the need for 200+ commercial vessels. The invasion force will probably be no where near 2 corps as in Desert Storm. edit: 3. Nothing was prepositioned in 91. Everthing had to be moved in.