> In GWI one out of every 8 infantry had Sony video cameras to film the
> terrain of Iraq in order to create simulation programs for future
> scenario
> planning. Combine that with all the Satellite driven data mapping GIS
> stuff they've got at the Defense Mapping Agency and one can create all
> kinds of strategic simulations for combat in Iraq [and lots of other
> theatres of possible military conflict]. This is routine stuff at the
> Pentagon. They're running simulations now, while lots of lbosters
> sleep,
> party, whathaveyou....................Baudrillard is a kindergartner
> compared to those lovers of Thanatos.
Militaries everywhere produce contingency plans of all sources and update them constantly, in case they are called upon to use them. But contingency plans are not the same thing as actual plans by the administration. I would still like to see some evidence that the Clinton administration was actively, seriously, planning a spring-2003 style invasion of Iraq.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt