Walk out against the war (1 Viewer)

[W.]

i have some a3 "walkout against the war" posters.. essentially when the war starts the idea is that everyone leaves work/school/college/whatever in opposition to the war.. if you'd like some for your college/work slap me down one of them secret punk handshakes and i'll see what i can do. . .

wheatpasting sometime this week too.

 

[ian bastardcore]

wheat pasting on saturday night who i havent contacted by email,just print some up a load of anti war posters and get some paste and get in contact ...

weeler i will be needing a couple of those posters that you have.i got 40 done up advertising the direct action planned for march 1st.

also anyone interested in livening this years st patricks day up by having an uninvited anarachists against the war bloc join in the parade ?? cant be too specific on the net but if done right , it could be fun and productive.

 

[ian bastardcore]

U.S. troops already working in Iraq
War?s initial ground phase is under way
By Thomas E. Ricks
THE WASHINGTON POST

Feb. 13 ? U.S. Special Operations troops are already operating in various
parts of Iraq, hunting for weapons sites, establishing a communications
network and seeking potential defectors from Iraqi military units in what
amounts to the initial ground phase of a war, U.S. defense officials and
experts familiar with Pentagon planning said.
THE TROOPS, comprising two Special Operations Task Forces with an undetermined
number of personnel, have been in and out of Iraq for well over a month, said
two military officials with direct knowledge of their activities. They are
laying the groundwork for conventional U.S. forces that could quickly seize
large portions of Iraq if President Bush gives a formal order to go to war,
the officials said.

PLAN: ENCIRCLE BAGHDAD
The ground operation points to a Pentagon war plan that is shaping up
to be dramatically different than the one carried out by the United States and
its allies in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Instead of beginning with a massive
aerial bombardment, the plan envisions a series of preliminary ground actions
to seize Iraqi territory and effectively encircle Baghdad before a large-scale
air campaign hits the capital, defense officials and analysts said.

"It?s possible that ground movements could come in and occupy large
portions of Iraq almost unimpeded," said one person familiar with Pentagon
planning. In northern Iraq, "We might get to the outskirts of Tikrit without
firing a shot." Tikrit, a city north of Baghdad, is Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein?s ancestral home and a major base of his power.
Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the U.S. commander for the Middle East, is
scheduled to go to the White House today for a review of his war plans with
Bush. Franks is expected to depart soon afterward to Qatar, where his Central
Command has established its regional headquarters for an attack on Iraq.
The buildup of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region continues, even
as the Bush administration pursues last-minute diplomacy to win support for
war at the United Nations. The Pentagon announced the activation of nearly
40,000 more reservists yesterday, bringing the total to more than 150,000, the
highest number since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
There are more than 135,000 U.S. troops in the vicinity of Iraq, and
that is expected to grow by next week to 150,000 ? the number cited by
military planners as the minimum required to launch a full-scale assault.
Military officials familiar with the war plan say it is possible that a
fairly substantial ground operation could take place not after the air
campaign, as in the Gulf War, but either before or simultaneously with it.
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The Special Operations forces operating in Iraq have several distinct
missions. Some are establishing relations with opposition groups and setting
up airstrips into which U.S. forces could be flown, the officials said. Others
are focused on preventing Iraq from launching missiles or drone aircraft
against Israel. Those troops are believed to move in and out of Iraq from
neighboring countries.
In addition to the ground operations, a small-scale air war against
Iraq also continues. U.S. and British aircraft patrolling "no-fly" zones in
northern and southern Iraq have conducted airstrikes several times a week for
months, hitting antiaircraft sites, military communications lines and other
government facilities. On Tuesday, U.S. warplanes dropped more than a dozen
bombs on a medium-range missile launcher system in southern Iraq. Yesterday,
they returned to bomb the radar system for that launcher.

?STRATEGIC WAR?
A psychological operations campaign also has been underway, with
leaflets and broadcasts preparing Iraqis for military action, telling them,
among other things, that "coalition forces do not wish to harm the noble
people of Iraq."
"The strategic war has already begun," said retired Marine Lt. Gen.
Paul Van Riper, an expert in war planning.
Early moves of U.S. forces into northern, southern and western Iraq
could substantially reduce the obstacles faced by the large-scale ground
operations that would follow, military planners said. In the north, Kurdish
militias already have achieved considerable autonomy while the south is
overwhelmingly populated by members of the Shiite sect of Islam who widely
resent Hussein?s Sunni-dominated leadership. Western Iraq is largely
uninhabited desert. ?If Saddam Hussein has the oil fields wired for
destruction and is prepared to blow the dams and dikes of the lower Tigris and
Euphrates, which would slow down our forces, you can?t go through a week of
bombing that gives him the chance to do that.?
? ANDREW KREPINEVICH
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments As a result, military
planners said, U.S. ground forces could seize as much as 75 percent of Iraqi
territory in the early phase of a war, leaving Hussein in control of Baghdad
and the area from the capital north to Tikrit, bounded on the west by the
Euphrates River and on the east by the Tigris-a region less than 50 miles wide
and about 150 miles long.
Assaulting that area still presents a formidable challenge, especially
in Baghdad and other cities. But by radically reducing the combat zone, the
war plan promises to substantially lessen the impact on the Iraqi population.
That in turn would ease humanitarian problems.
For many of the same reasons, people familiar with the Pentagon?s war
plan said, the military also will move quickly to secure major oil fields
either before the formal outset of war, or as it begins.
Pentagon officials said the plan under contemplation would not resemble
the Gulf War, where the opening signal was cruise missiles and bombs hitting
downtown Baghdad. Rather, they said, widespread aerial attacks on the capital
may be among the last major moves by the United States.
In 1991, it was essential to hit targets in and around Baghdad to cut
communications of the national antiaircraft network. But in contrast to 12
years ago, the antiaircraft system in northern and southern Iraq has been
substantially degraded by years of airstrikes. While Baghdad remains protected
by surface-to-air missiles, many of them withdrawn into the capital region
from the "no-fly" zones, much of the rest of the country is relatively open to
U.S. aircraft.
Military experts cited tactical and strategic reasons for beginning the
war in a way that almost inverts the opening of the Gulf War.
"If Saddam Hussein has the oil fields wired for destruction and is
prepared to blow the dams and dikes of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, which
would slow down our forces, you can?t go through a week of bombing that gives
him the chance to do that," said Andrew Krepinevich, a defense expert at the
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank. Also,
the Bush administration worries that global patience with a war would begin
running out after a few weeks of fighting. Arab governments have sent the
message to the U.S. government that "if you do it, it?s got to be done
quickly," said Michael Eisenstadt, an expert on the Iraqi military at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. So it is advantageous, he said, for
the military to win some strategic breathing space by achieving some of its
war aims before the major air campaign begins.

© 2003 The Washington Post Company


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[rape the drummer]

(secret punk handshake) -recipient-Weeler

 

[goatlord]

i would shake your hand .. but since i dont know where that thing's been i'll pass!

 

[W.]

Originally posted by goatlord
i would shake your hand .. but since i dont know where that thing's been i'll pass!

mostly on my cock .. . and my guitar.

 

[jillface]

this is my not-so-secret punk handshake.
.|..|

 

[Willie Willions]

PLAN: ENCIRCLE BAGHDAD
The ground operation points to a Pentagon war plan that is shaping up
to be dramatically different than the one carried out by the United States and
its allies in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Instead of beginning with a massive
aerial bombardment, the plan envisions a series of preliminary ground actions
to seize Iraqi territory and effectively encircle Baghdad before a large-scale
air campaign hits the capital, defense officials and analysts said.

"It?s possible that ground movements could come in and occupy large
portions of Iraq almost unimpeded," said one person familiar with Pentagon
planning. In northern Iraq, "We might get to the outskirts of Tikrit without
firing a shot." Tikrit, a city north of Baghdad, is Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein?s ancestral home and a major base of his power.
Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the U.S. commander for the Middle East, is
scheduled to go to the White House today for a review of his war plans with
Bush. Franks is expected to depart soon afterward to Qatar, where his Central
Command has established its regional headquarters for an attack on Iraq.
The buildup of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region continues, even
as the Bush administration pursues last-minute diplomacy to win support for
war at the United Nations. The Pentagon announced the activation of nearly
40,000 more reservists yesterday, bringing the total to more than 150,000, the
highest number since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
There are more than 135,000 U.S. troops in the vicinity of Iraq, and
that is expected to grow by next week to 150,000 ? the number cited by
military planners as the minimum required to launch a full-scale assault.
Military officials familiar with the war plan say it is possible that a
fairly substantial ground operation could take place not after the air
campaign, as in the Gulf War, but either before or simultaneously with it.
Advertisement [MSN Shopping]

[Add local news and weather to the MSNBC home page.]


The Special Operations forces operating in Iraq have several distinct
missions. Some are establishing relations with opposition groups and setting
up airstrips into which U.S. forces could be flown, the officials said. Others
are focused on preventing Iraq from launching missiles or drone aircraft
against Israel. Those troops are believed to move in and out of Iraq from
neighboring countries.
In addition to the ground operations, a small-scale air war against
Iraq also continues. U.S. and British aircraft patrolling "no-fly" zones in
northern and southern Iraq have conducted airstrikes several times a week for
months, hitting antiaircraft sites, military communications lines and other
government facilities. On Tuesday, U.S. warplanes dropped more than a dozen
bombs on a medium-range missile launcher system in southern Iraq. Yesterday,
they returned to bomb the radar system for that launcher.

?STRATEGIC WAR?
A psychological operations campaign also has been underway, with
leaflets and broadcasts preparing Iraqis for military action, telling them,
among other things, that "coalition forces do not wish to harm the noble
people of Iraq."
"The strategic war has already begun," said retired Marine Lt. Gen.
Paul Van Riper, an expert in war planning.
Early moves of U.S. forces into northern, southern and western Iraq
could substantially reduce the obstacles faced by the large-scale ground
operations that would follow, military planners said. In the north, Kurdish
militias already have achieved considerable autonomy while the south is
overwhelmingly populated by members of the Shiite sect of Islam who widely
resent Hussein?s Sunni-dominated leadership. Western Iraq is largely
uninhabited desert. ?If Saddam Hussein has the oil fields wired for
destruction and is prepared to blow the dams and dikes of the lower Tigris and
Euphrates, which would slow down our forces, you can?t go through a week of
bombing that gives him the chance to do that.?
? ANDREW KREPINEVICH
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments As a result, military
planners said, U.S. ground forces could seize as much as 75 percent of Iraqi
territory in the early phase of a war, leaving Hussein in control of Baghdad
and the area from the capital north to Tikrit, bounded on the west by the
Euphrates River and on the east by the Tigris-a region less than 50 miles wide
and about 150 miles long.
Assaulting that area still presents a formidable challenge, especially
in Baghdad and other cities. But by radically reducing the combat zone, the
war plan promises to substantially lessen the impact on the Iraqi population.
That in turn would ease humanitarian problems.
For many of the same reasons, people familiar with the Pentagon?s war
plan said, the military also will move quickly to secure major oil fields
either before the formal outset of war, or as it begins.
Pentagon officials said the plan under contemplation would not resemble
the Gulf War, where the opening signal was cruise missiles and bombs hitting
downtown Baghdad. Rather, they said, widespread aerial attacks on the capital
may be among the last major moves by the United States.
In 1991, it was essential to hit targets in and around Baghdad to cut
communications of the national antiaircraft network. But in contrast to 12
years ago, the antiaircraft system in northern and southern Iraq has been
substantially degraded by years of airstrikes. While Baghdad remains protected
by surface-to-air missiles, many of them withdrawn into the capital region
from the "no-fly" zones, much of the rest of the country is relatively open to
U.S. aircraft.
Military experts cited tactical and strategic reasons for beginning the
war in a way that almost inverts the opening of the Gulf War.
"If Saddam Hussein has the oil fields wired for destruction and is
prepared to blow the dams and dikes of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, which
would slow down our forces, you can?t go through a week of bombing that gives
him the chance to do that," said Andrew Krepinevich, a defense expert at the
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank. Also,
the Bush administration worries that global patience with a war would begin
running out after a few weeks of fighting. Arab governments have sent the
message to the U.S. government that "if you do it, it?s got to be done
quickly," said Michael Eisenstadt, an expert on the Iraqi military at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. So it is advantageous, he said, for
the military to win some strategic breathing space by achieving some of its
war aims before the major air campaign begins.

© 2003 The Washington Post Company


Hmm, I don't know, there's a lot of question marks...

 

[Corm]

Originally posted by ian bastardcore
wheat pasting on saturday night who i havent contacted by email,just print some up a load of anti war posters and get some paste and get in contact ...

Friday night would be better with Kilkenny and all...