Everyone Have This? Any Questions?

Everyone Have This? Any Questions? - Remember the old SNL bit from during the Gulf War, when Mike Myers asks General Schwartzkopf "Please tell us the units involved in tomorrow's airstrikes, their targets, and the times they'll be attacking?".

Today's NY Times has about the same thing...

Now, here's the question: Given that the Bush Administration is as leak-phobic as the Military claims to be (and frequently succeeds at being), my question is: is this legit? Or is this disinformation intended to skew the public's perception? Or Iraq's?

Which begs all sorts of questions: Turkey's claimed at various times to support the War on Terrorism - but then said it doesn't support invading Iraq. Yet they've always wanted a less looney-tunes government on their southeast border, too. And they are the one army in place in the region that's allied with us (in NATO, remember?) and capable of mixing it up with the Iraqis (in addition to whomever we and the Brits haul into the region).

And we'll probably need that - Seven Divisions from the Army and two from the Marines fought in the Gulf War, while today the entire US Army is twelve divisions, in wildly-differing states of readiness.

Hm. Who do you believe...