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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (65453)	1/11/2003 2:59:05 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 281500

England just had their air craft carrier leave for the Gulf..

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (65453)	1/11/2003 9:40:33 PM
From: BigBull	Respond to of 281500

So now it's 150K? Yikes! Add the Brits and I have my predicted number +/- 10K. I read in the Aussie papers that they will be sending on the order of 3k soon as well. I'm not too worried about "the Allies" and their "go slow" until the inspectors find proof approach. I expect the Bush administration has a plan to deal with this. Remember, demands for a "smoking gun" didn't stop the Afghanistan operation. Imo it goes something like this: 1. Get Iraq to claim no WMD's in writing for material breach number 1. Done. 2. Get inspectors to try to interview some key "scientists" aka state security heads of weapons programs. al Saadi would be nice :o}. This will be material breach number 2 (refusals count). Close. 3. Insist Inspectors visit Military and State Security facilities (the only ones that count). Sadam will go ballistic (as he already has done). Material breach number 3. Pending. Three strikes and Saddam is out. Then this "we're doing everything to avoid war" charade will be over. Imo won't take long either. I certainly don't think it will take until the fall. The Turks are the last fly in the ointment. I bet the Bush admin. is working the "Turk problem" 24/7.