It's official: No military action against Iraq (beyond the usual perpetual bombing)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 21 11:20:43 PST 2002


Max Sawicky wrote:


>Sandbagging alert!! I for one recall all the awed descriptions
>of the Iraqi military by the Pentagon, before they went in and
>cleaned their clock.

Yup, and the left bought the sandbags in quantity. This time we're hearing "Iraq is not Afghanistan," which is unarguably true, but that doesn't mean that the Pentagon couldn't make hamburger of them. I wish the U.S. military were as ineffective as some antiwarriors like to claim.

Doug



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