How the fvck are we going to pull this one off?!

[DamnMachine]

The problem with the Bush Administration is they have lofty ambitions ( rid the world of tyrants ) but lack the talent and imagination to actually achieve them. Rumsfield wanted to send 50,000 troops to baghdad a city of 6.5 million people. After much talk with Tommy Franks the number was raised to 140,000 troops, a far cry from the 560,000 that military planners had wanted to send.

The golden rule for occupation is 40 to 1, so with 25 million Iraqi's that is 625,000 troops. The 560,000 number seemed plausible the 140,000 number seems silly.

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Planning for attack != immediate intent to attack

We plan for everything - I'm sure we've got plans to invade Canada laying in a drawer somewhere. Besides, the sources in that article are less than solid.

Everything is always planned out years and years in advance. The plan that Germany was supposed to use in World War 1 (the Von Schlieffen Plan) was created in like 1903 or 1906 or something. And it's always very secret.

This isn't the full-on attack plan is my guess, but I didn't really read the whole article.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Not going to happen! 😛

Right. The Pentagon plans lots of attacks so if needed, we a ready to go.

You ought the see the plan for leveling Ottawa. 😉

 

[shilala]

Roll on, roll on, big 18-wheeler, roll on.
I'd love the fact that George is layin the buttsechs down on the Middle East if our economy wasn't so borked.
The whole deal makes me wanna barf.