Top U.S. War Planners Heading to Persian Gulf

[The Finman]

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Top U.S. War Planners Heading to Persian Gulf
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The U.S. is moving its top war planners to the Persian Gulf to prepare for a possible war with Iraq, Fox News confirmed Tuesday.

Much of the U.S. Central Command battle staff will go to a base in the region equipped to coordinate a large-scale land, sea and air war, officials said.

The same Central Command planners were at the post, called Camp As Sayliyah, last month for a weeklong exercise before returning to their permanent headquarters in Florida, but this time it is not an exercise.

They are positioning themselves to kick off any military action against Iraq that President Bush should deem necessary, although officials stressed that the movement does not mean war is imminent or inevitable.

Meanwhile, Britain ordered a task force of ships and 3,000 Royal Marines to head toward the Gulf and mobilized 1,500 reserve soldiers, joining the United States in increasing military pressure on Saddam Hussein.

British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said Royal Navy vessels and Royal Marines would be sent to the Mediterranean to train for possible action.

In Washington, a senior official who discussed the U.S. effort on condition of anonymity said the movement of Central Command battle planners, which began this week, is part of an accelerating buildup of forces in the Gulf region.

Jim Wilkinson, the Central Command director of strategic communications, confirmed the decision to send the battle planners to As Sayliyah, in Qatar, but he declined to provide details on when they would arrive or when the command post would be ready to start a war.

Franks said the exercise verified technologies that would enable him to coordinate with air, ground and naval commanders in the region.

Mike DeLong, is at the Tampa headquarters.

Although the officers at As Sayliyah would command the overall war, the air portion of the campaign would be run from a facility at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

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[NRA FOREVER]

Good to have a President who doesint let us get pushed around....God Bless President Bush...

[Dutch]

$10.00 say Saddam is gone before Valentine's Day.

[CatKozTX]

Originally posted by Dutch:
$10.00 say Saddam is gone before Valentine's Day.

Dutch, I hope you're right. [img]graemlins/tank.gif[/img]

[McCoy]

I think we go the first week in Feb.
The 7th is a Friday, an iraq day of rest, so...

McCoy

[Dutch]

Originally posted by McCoy:
I think we go the first week in Feb.
The 7th is a Friday, an iraq day of rest, so...

McCoy

Whoo Hoo!!!! Can I give Saddam a special Valentine's Day card with traces of cyanide and arsenic?

[McCoy]

Whoo Hoo!!!! Can I give Saddam a special Valentine's Day card with traces of cyanide and arsenic?

Why yes, yes you can. [img]graemlins/clap.gif[/img]

It's time to bomb sadam, time to bomb sadam...

McCoy

[NRA FOREVER]

Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightening
of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires
of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar
in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence
by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel
writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners,
So with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman,
crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men
before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him!
be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy,
let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

[Sweetpea]

Sadam is toast.