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Date Posted: 22:34:13 09/22/02 Sun
By ROBERT BURNS
.c The Associated Press
NOW!!! "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY MR BUSH --I THINK U ARE SO DUMB AS ALL LEADERS WHO ARE VOLIENT. DID U ASK GOD IF HE WAS GOING TO GIVE ANOTHER DAY TO BE EVIL? DID U AS GOD IF U COULD DESTROY HIS CREATIONS? DID U ASK GOD TO WORK THIS WHOLE PROBLEM OUT? NO U DIDN'T SO, I ASK GOD TO LOOK OVER ALL HIS CREATION AND DELIEVER THEM FROM THIS EVIL!! I HAVE FAITH IN GOD TO MAKE THIS ALL GO AWAY!!!
MUCH LOVE,
PASTORRAP
PEACE
WASHINGTON (Sept. 22) - The Pentagon has delivered to President Bush a detailed set of options for using military force to remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq's presidency and neutralize his most dangerous weapons, a senior defense official said.
The highly classified plan was delivered to the White House in early September by Gen. Tommy Franks, the Central Command chief, who would run any military operation against Iraq. The plan will undergo additional refinements in the weeks ahead, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Saturday.
Bush has made no decision on Iraq, White House spokesman Sean McCormack said. ``He has options before him, and he is reviewing his options.''
On a visit to American troops in Kuwait, Franks said his forces are ready if called upon.
``We are prepared to undertake whatever activities and whatever actions we may be directed to take by our nation,'' he told a news conference Saturday. He also noted: ``Our president has not made a decision to go to war.''
Kuwait would be a likely launching pad for an attack against Iraq. Thousands of American and Kuwaiti forces are preparing to begin a large-scale training exercise in several days. Called ``Eager Mace,'' it will use amphibious, ground, air and naval forces, including Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The exercise has not been publicly announced.
Also Saturday, Iraq said it would reject any new U.N. resolutions that Saddam's government believes are unfavorable. ``The American officials are trying ... to issue new, bad resolutions from the Security Council,'' Iraq's state-run radio said.
McCormack said the White House found it ``very disappointing that Iraq says it will not abide by future resolutions.''
``We are working very hard within the international community, and specifically in the United Nations, to address in an effective way the issue of Iraqi noncompliance,'' McCormack said. ``As the president has said, this is an important test of the United Nations' resolve.''
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, leaving Sunday for a NATO meeting in Poland, said the Iraqi comment was in character.
``Anyone who has watched the past decade has seen the Iraqi government ... change their position depending on what they thought was tactically advantageous to them and kind of jerk the United Nations around,'' he told CNN. ``So it is no surprise at all.''
Franks' delivery of his new war plan to Bush was first reported Saturday in The New York Times. The newspaper cited officials familiar with war planning as saying the Franks plan contains the number of ground troops, combat aircraft and aircraft carrier battle groups that would be needed to knock out Iraq's air defenses and military communications and then seize Baghdad.
Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that a primary worry of war planners is the possibility that Iraq would launch a pre-emptive attack on U.S. and allied forces in the region using weapons of mass destruction.
He suggested that Iraq's means of delivering such weapons - by ballistic missile, aircraft or other means - would be among the priority targets at the outset of a U.S. attack.
Rumsfeld told lawmakers that he and his aides were working to answer a wide range of ``what if?'' questions that could complicate a military operation against Iraq, including the possibility of a desperation move by Saddam to use chemical, biological or radiological weapons or to attack Israel.
Rumsfeld also held out the possibility that Saddam might flee Iraq to avoid a conflict. ``I'm sure there are countries that would be delighted to have him,'' Rumsfeld told CNN.
As Bush considers his options for using military force against Iraq, his administration is simultaneously consulting with Russia and other countries on a new U.N. resolution that would threaten Iraq with war if it does not meet its decade-old obligation to disarm.
Talks will continue at the United Nations, where the United States and Britain are trying to overcome resistance from Russia, China and France, all with veto powers, to leveling new demands without proof.
``The goal is disarmament. The goal is not inspections. And inspections can work if a country is cooperative and they want to prove to the world that they have, in fact, disarmed,'' Rumsfeld said.
``In this instance, to favor inspections, one would have to make a conscious judgment that Iraq was cooperative. And that means they'd have to review the past decade and come to that conclusion. And that's a difficult thing for a reasonable person to do, it seems to me.''
On the Net: Central Command: http://www.centcom.mil/
09/22/02 08:25 EDT
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