WAR? WHAT WAR? PART II: In what the
London Daily Telegraph reports as "the biggest single operation over" Iraq in four years, a contingent of 100 U.S. and U.K. aircraft lowered the boom on Saddam's western air defense facilities yesterday. With "many support aircraft" involved, "nine American F15 Strike Eagles and three RAF Tornado GR4 ground attack aircraft flying from Kuwait" fired "precision-guided bombs on to the H3 airfield, 240 miles west of Baghdad." The Telegraph reveals that the purpose of this mission was to give "easy access for special forces helicopters to fly into Iraq via Jordan or Saudi Arabia to hunt down Scud missiles before a possible war."
A
possible war?? When over
100,000 American and allied troops, including nearly 2,000 special ops personnel, are on the ground in and around an enemy country and American bombs are dropping on that enemy's
command-and-control and air defense facilities, a war is more than possible. A war is on.
