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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (752344)	10/25/2006 9:41:45 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

A US general has admitted the US could only launch limited air strikes if war broke out with North Korea, because hi-tech bombing equipment is tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan. -------------------------------------------------------- Edinburgh Evening News Wed 25 Oct 2006 US 'would need brute force in North Korea' news.scotsman.com A US general has admitted the US could only launch limited air strikes if war broke out with North Korea, because hi-tech bombing equipment is tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, he claimed, it would rely on "more brute force" on the ground. Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "You need precision intelligence to drop precision munitions. And a lot of our assets are currently being used in the Gulf region." North Korea sparked fear and anger across the world by carrying out a nuclear test on October 9. Gen Pace added the US still has "two million folks who can start protecting this nation anywhere else we need them".