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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (67225)	1/20/2003 6:00:56 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Nearly 60,000 of the nation's reservists are now on active duty, but if President Bush orders an attack against Iraq, the Pentagon plans to activate as many as 265,000 of America's so-called weekend warriors.>> Yep, the idea is to go in, take names and kick rears. Quick and clean. CNN will be overloaded with evidence of WMDs at that point.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (67225)	1/20/2003 7:18:05 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Karen Lawrence; Like I've been saying, there can be no real war in Iraq without a massive callup. So far, I haven't seen it. Figures show the level of activated reserves, as of January 15th, are now at 58,894. The peak was this past summer at 85,592 (see #reply-18449379 ). Until they actually call up the reserves, I see no way for us to have a war. And since the reserves are the longest lead time item required for a war, every day that a massive (i.e. 100,000 more activations) callup is delayed is another day that peace has still won out. -- Carl