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Politics : Let's Talk About the War -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (386)	4/6/2003 12:03:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 486

Methinks Rummy gambled and got lucky. He succeeded in cutting off the head of the snake, but if he had not, the snake would have blown up the oil fields, the bridges and the dams. The bombs were there and ready to blow up but the commands never came. I agree with him that the end is inevitable but the timeline is shorter than it might have been and so he is both smart and lucky. When the story is all told, if it is ever told, I surmise we may learn that the commands might not have come anyway due to our having co-opted the chain of command further down the line -- but cannot believe that any soldier in Saddam's army would have disobeyed direct orders. So. The orders never came. And that's lucky.