Bush doesn't want war:

Not really. What he wants, is to assasinate Saddam Hussein. At least that's the impression one gets from this news story:

Excerpts:

A U.S. war plan calls for the launch in March of three or four hundred cruise missiles a day at the start of a war on Iraq, more than were fired during the entire first Gulf War, according to a televised report on Friday.

U.S. officials and analysts have predicted for months that an attack on Iraq would be swift, massive and designed to catch Baghdad by surprise. ...

... this time the target is the Iraqi leadership and the battle plan is designed to "bypass Iraqi divisions whenever possible" ...

Looks a lot like Ari Fleischer's notion that "one bullet" would be a cost-effective way of removing the threat the Iraqi leader represents.

Targeting the leadership of a country. Now that's a change in policy.


posted by Quiddity at 1/25/2003 04:44:00 PM