"The Big Lie"
This is something that has been bothering me for quite some time, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was until recently. In the run up to the war in Iraq, the administration was screaming, "Chemical! Biological! Nuclear soon!" at the top of their lungs to anyone and everyone. We now know that to be wrong, and the administration has been sort of saying, "Well we were wrong, but we could have been right and so it was still worth it."
This tickled a little thought in the back of my mind, and it starts with this. During the race to Bagdad, I was watching a lot of MSNBC, and their primary guy on the ground was David Bloom, driving with the 3rd Infantry up the highway to Bagdad. Every day we would see reports by Bloom from the top of a Bradley or back of a Hummer as they drove up the road. What was notable about this was, and this was the start of an unravelling thread, youcould always see him. Not only could you see him, you could see all the other guys around him too. And what was missing from that picture was, MOPP suits. I never noticed a single one.
Okay, that seems strange. Well, let's put that together with a couple over things, like lack of body armor and the hillbilly armor welded to those Hummers. At this point I'm getting curious. Why weren't any of these either issued, or sent out in so sub-standard a way? I'm not sure but that may not be indicative of anything.
Then yet another one of those little bits of information popped in, and it was the size of force that was sent in, about 120,000 guys, even fewer than are on the ground now. At this point something is screaming at me that this whole scenario is wrong. And here's what it is.
"Saddam Hussain has chemical and biologic weapons and will use them. We have to go get him because of this."
That premise is completely wrong and the people running the operation had to know it was completely wrong. Let us say for the sake of argument, that Saddam had reconstitued his weapons abilities. If that is true, then the invasion looks like Desert One as the gas shells start landing all around the US troops on the road. Tens of thousands of them are killed by the gas attacks and the remainder is so decimated that the Republican Guard units not only stand a chance, but so outnumber US troops on the ground that they get wiped out like the Brits at Dieppe some sixty odd years ago.
My conclusion is, they knew the weapons weren't there going in. Unless they are even more callous, careless and stupid than I think they are, there is no way they send that small a group in. It would have been a disater the likes of which the US military has never seen.
This tickled a little thought in the back of my mind, and it starts with this. During the race to Bagdad, I was watching a lot of MSNBC, and their primary guy on the ground was David Bloom, driving with the 3rd Infantry up the highway to Bagdad. Every day we would see reports by Bloom from the top of a Bradley or back of a Hummer as they drove up the road. What was notable about this was, and this was the start of an unravelling thread, youcould always see him. Not only could you see him, you could see all the other guys around him too. And what was missing from that picture was, MOPP suits. I never noticed a single one.
Okay, that seems strange. Well, let's put that together with a couple over things, like lack of body armor and the hillbilly armor welded to those Hummers. At this point I'm getting curious. Why weren't any of these either issued, or sent out in so sub-standard a way? I'm not sure but that may not be indicative of anything.
Then yet another one of those little bits of information popped in, and it was the size of force that was sent in, about 120,000 guys, even fewer than are on the ground now. At this point something is screaming at me that this whole scenario is wrong. And here's what it is.
"Saddam Hussain has chemical and biologic weapons and will use them. We have to go get him because of this."
That premise is completely wrong and the people running the operation had to know it was completely wrong. Let us say for the sake of argument, that Saddam had reconstitued his weapons abilities. If that is true, then the invasion looks like Desert One as the gas shells start landing all around the US troops on the road. Tens of thousands of them are killed by the gas attacks and the remainder is so decimated that the Republican Guard units not only stand a chance, but so outnumber US troops on the ground that they get wiped out like the Brits at Dieppe some sixty odd years ago.
My conclusion is, they knew the weapons weren't there going in. Unless they are even more callous, careless and stupid than I think they are, there is no way they send that small a group in. It would have been a disater the likes of which the US military has never seen.
posted by Mike N | 4:18 PM
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