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To: Ilaine who wrote (55386)	10/30/2002 3:24:54 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "When the reserves are called up for a major attack on Iraq, you won't have to chart the mobilization figures, you'll be reading about it in the newspaper. Impossible to hide something like that." I agree completely. This is what I've been saying for months. The reason I started charting the reserves is because you and yours have been claiming that the war is going to start in secret, one week from whatever day it is. Charting the reserves shows that there is no secret build-up of manpower. Let me remind you of your previous statements on this: CobaltBlue, October 1, 2002 You are so inconsistent. You've been saying for months that, if we were going to war, we'd have a huge buildup like we did for Desert Shield. That took months, and there was no element of surprise. #reply-18060694 Remember back when there was the famous 100-plane attack on Iraq? You guys were speculating that this was the beginning of the big war: Nadine Carroll, September 6, 2002 Here's the link to the London Daily Telegraph report on the US/UK bombing of Iraq's H3 air defense post, which, according to their map, is NOT in the no-fly zone. ... Anybody else find it curious that the American media, except for the Washington Times, have not picked this up? btw, I caught part of the Pentagon briefing on it on NPR (so they at least are covering it); the briefer tried to make it sound like this was just one strike among many in the no fly zone, which certainly does not jive with either the size or location of the raid as reported by the Telegraph or debka. #reply-17962085 CobaltBlue, in reply Hi Nadine - Fox is picking up the Telegraph report, too. #reply-17962104 Bilow, in reply: Hi CobaltBlue; Re the big US attack on Iraq involving 100 planes. There is a very significant paragraph in that story: "The paper said that the large numbers involved stemmed from the many support aircraft that took part even though only 12 jets actually dropped precision-guided bombs onto the H3 airfield, 240 miles west of Baghdad and close to Jordan." ... In other words, the press isn't making it into a big deal because it wasn't one. #reply-17962706 Now, with the perspective of another 45 days, the big attack of early September is revealed to be exactly as insignificant as I (and the US government) said it was at the time. And then there were the US exercises with Jordan that were supposedly a cover for an attack on Iraq. Not to mention the brouhaha over the use of foreign ships to move US munitions. Aren't you ashamed? -- Carl P.S. I only post the mobilization figures once each week. That's one post out of the thousands that show up on FADG each week. You're the one that is making a big deal out of it.