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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4053)	2/14/2003 6:35:05 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

<<That would make sense.. Once we control the oil fields, local Iraqis will see which side their bread is buttered on.. But I think the 101st and it's air assets would be crucial to an air assault and capture of the oil fields before Saddam has a chance to torch them..>> Like we haven't had Special Forces in place for months, in country, ready to control those fields? Poor guys living off eating snakes and you don't give them a big howdy? I'm going back to Afghanistan, we had boots on the ground months before we had permission to send them in there. Last Gulf war Special Forces were in country long before the first plane flew. That's where the lasers for the JDAMS came from.