General Reply.
One of the jobs of the Department of Defense (and its foreign equivelants) is to conduct excercises on what they predict will be a near term conflict/scenario/situation. It makes sense. Back in the Cold War DoD conducted excercises to practice countering the threat of Russia.
Let's take a look at General Schwarzkopf practiced in 1990 before the Gulf War.
It was most fortuitous that General Norman Schwarzkopf and his U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) changed the original scenario for Exercise Internal Look, July 1990, from one involving Iran, to the defense of Saudi Arabia from an Iraqi attack into Kuwait...
Little did we know that Exercise Internal Look would later prove to be a dress rehearsal for Operation Desert Shield, and later, Operation Desert Storm.
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If you ask me the fact that these excercises are going on near the time of the events tells us that these agencies are doing their job.
So how would you conspiracy theorists spin Operation Internal Look? It was the US that made Saddam invade Kuwait so we could out him and thereby make friends with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for oil?
Yeaaaahhh man..that's the stuff...
This message has been edited by Tal, 07-18-2005 10:28 AM
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