... in response to Media, posted by Ray on Feb 28, 2003Sorry but I am sure he would refuse to comment at all. He does not even tell me all that is going on, just a little. More than I probably should know but he says that what I do not know I cannot be accused of telling. I will ask him anyhow but as I said I doubt he will even answer.
However I am under no such restrictions about imagining. 
I imagine that what the people on the news are saying is one of two things... things that the military wants Saddam to believe and things the media is making up as they go along just to have something to say. I have seen and heard enough inside information on other things that the media reported on and I know how wrong they usually are. From what Don has said the media hate being used by the military, but that is their tough luck. They either report what their "sources" tell them or they have nothing to say at all and that just kills them. They take what they get from "sources" and amplify it and deduce from it and it winds up that the story would not know its own mother when it is finished. If you want a closer thought on what will really happen listen to the BBC. They have had eons of experience in covering wars and they do it pretty well.
One thing I am convinced of is that this war if we have it will bear about as much likeness to Desert Storm as that war did to Vietnam. My darling does keep himself abreast of the latest military developements and weapons and he freely speculates about them at home when he is under no orders and often says how he would conduct a war with these new weapons and tactics. All I can say is that if I were Saddam I would be looking for someplace to run right now and go at the first sign of a bomb. The things on the news bear only a little resemblance to the plans he has worked out at home for recreation. These news plans are very simplistic, and probably meant to make Iraqi generals think we are going somewhere we are not like the marines did with their people on ship in Desert Storm.
VICKY
