At 02:25 PM 4/2/2003 -0800 Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
>False or not, its a lame reason to start a war before you're ready.
Uhhh.... we were ready, as was widely reported in all major news outlets.
The only questions was whether for *political* not *military* reasons, the
war should be postponed until the Fall. Given this question, analyzing
the costs vs. the benefits of this decisions is wise and prudent. The
costs were high, and the benefits - Iraqi capitulation or else French
reasonableness were both extremely unlikely.
JDG
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