In his State of the Union address, President Bush warned three nations sponsoring terror — North Korea, Iran and Iraq — that the U.S. "will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."
That means he has decided to destroy the destructive potential of the most dangerous states before any of them can credibly threaten to wipe out a U.S. city or infect our nation with an epidemic. Bush's refusal "to leave terror states unchecked" leaves only secondary decisions: when and how to attack "the axis of evil" (an apt allusion to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis of World War II). --------------------------------------------- Military porn: --------------------------------------------- (...)Our B-52's could then take out Kim Jong Il's key nuclear bomb-making sites(...) (...)Should intelligence reveal a nuclear danger from Tehran coming onstream, however, a surgical airstrike would be called for. (...) --------------------------------------------- more porn and horse scat: --------------------------------------------- (...)Supply arms and money to 70,000 Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and a lesser Shiite force in the south, covering both with Predator surveillance and tactical U.S. air support.
In Phase II, I'll bet it was recently agreed in Washington that Turkish tank brigades and U.S. Special Ops troops will together thrust down to Baghdad. Saddam will join Osama and Mullah Omar in hiding. Iraqis, cheering their liberators, will lead the Arab world toward democracy. (...) --------------------------------------------- Apparently Mossad doesn't care too much how brain-dead its columnists are since the US public is prepared to swallow anything. The Turkish army has fought the Kurds for 15 years and is adamantly opposed to any Iraqi operation even if the US guarantees it won't use the Kurds (the only alternative being a massive US land invasion, which is a non-starter). There is no way that the US is going to arm the Kurds as long as they are sitting next door to Turkey. If Turkish tanks do go in, it won't be against Saddam but against the Kurds. The Turkish army also has no intention whatsoever of occupying Iraqi territory, being in enough hot water as it is over Cyprus. That's what was "recently agreed in Washington". Papa Bush made a similar proposal before Desert Storm and rumor has it that Turkish PM Ozal wanted to jump on it to grab the Mossul oil fields. Whether this is true or not, one thing is certain: The army chief of staff vehemently opposed such a plan and resigned. So even if the rest of the world weren't totally against it, there is one immovable object between Shrubya and Iraq that the Shrub can't afford to blow up even if he could: Turkey.
Hakki