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Originally posted by Bunch
1. They were counting on Iraq to be sucessfull.
2. They were counting on Russia and China to give the ok and that's not happening if anything its the opposite
3. They were counting on the sanction to have happen faster than the time that its actually taking.
4. I don't think they were counting on North Korea to give up diplomatically, which shows that this can be resolved that way.
5. The public suppport has not materialize even with the tactics of fear on high gear.
6. Now the military is not buying the idea and saying so publicly.
7. No support whatsoever from Congress and in an election year it will be hard to get it.