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To: Lane3 who wrote (121932)	6/24/2005 10:11:10 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793824

I don't think the MSM were interested in the planning, itself, so much as the timing and what that suggests about the credibility of how Bush sold the war. Not sure what, exactly, constitutes "mainstream media" but strategic forecasters like Stratfor and Global Security were predicting the invasion at about the same time that the alleged Downing Street Memo were saying it was inevitable, that is to say, summer of 2002. Global Security actually had a countdown clock on their website. By the way, I don't think the term of art here is "planning," but "preparation." The invasion, per se, was probably planned on paper years before 2002, that's what the DOD does. Makes contingency plans. The actual placement of men and materiel in preparation for invasion, at worst, or a bigger footprint in the region, at best, began late 2001. That's no secret. As usual, attention is being focussed on the wrong facts. The question that should be asked, but isn't being asked, is "what if Saddam had allowed unfettered access to inspections, would we have gone in anyway"? And my answer is "I don't see how."