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Undertoad · 01-23-2003, 04:36 PM

You'll want to program your VCRs and TiVos differently for the upcoming week, because the reality shows are going to be pre-empted for... REALITY. I took it from USS Clueless and added my own wild-ass guesses. Just for your planning purposes, everything after the first day may be drastically wrong:

Sun Jan 26: Super Bowl; a nation enjoys a final party night before turning serious

Mon Jan 27: UN Inspections report due, including information that definitively shows Iraq's nuclear program in current operation

Tue Jan 28: Israeli elections day; State of the Union night. Pre-speech news shows UN inspectors departing Baghdad, newscasters reporting in grave tones

Wed Jan 29: Release of and details of "smoking gun" materials and information about Saddam's brutality to own people and solid involvement in terrorism

Thu Jan 30: Reaction of media, public to Wednesday's information; Tony Blair arrives in Washington

Fri Jan 31: Bush+Blair announcement of start of hostilities

Sat Feb 1: Beginning of hostilities; video not yet available; anxious public awaits news but there is no real info yet

Sun Feb 2: Pundits on Sun talk shows explain situation further; DOD press conferences show first results of air war, including the taking out of almost all Iraqi radar facilities and strategic missile damage to the southernmost "Presidential Palaces"

The schedule for the following week will then be announced, but will include:

US establishes air superiority and begins "psy ops" efforts to convince Iraqi forces not to engage coalition forces. Cuts power to Baghdad but does not bomb it. Does not send in ground forces at all; watches for movement. A worried Israel dons its gas masks daily a la 1991. Rumors of Syrian involvement circulate. Gas prices rise but not spectacularly.

01-23-2003, 04:36 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Timeline for the upcoming week You'll want to program your VCRs and TiVos differently for the upcoming week, because the reality shows are going to be pre-empted for... REALITY. I took it from USS Clueless and added my own wild-ass guesses. Just for your planning purposes, everything after the first day may be drastically wrong: Sun Jan 26: Super Bowl; a nation enjoys a final party night before turning serious Mon Jan 27: UN Inspections report due, including information that definitively shows Iraq's nuclear program in current operation Tue Jan 28: Israeli elections day; State of the Union night. Pre-speech news shows UN inspectors departing Baghdad, newscasters reporting in grave tones Wed Jan 29: Release of and details of "smoking gun" materials and information about Saddam's brutality to own people and solid involvement in terrorism Thu Jan 30: Reaction of media, public to Wednesday's information; Tony Blair arrives in Washington Fri Jan 31: Bush+Blair announcement of start of hostilities Sat Feb 1: Beginning of hostilities; video not yet available; anxious public awaits news but there is no real info yet Sun Feb 2: Pundits on Sun talk shows explain situation further; DOD press conferences show first results of air war, including the taking out of almost all Iraqi radar facilities and strategic missile damage to the southernmost "Presidential Palaces" The schedule for the following week will then be announced, but will include: US establishes air superiority and begins "psy ops" efforts to convince Iraqi forces not to engage coalition forces. Cuts power to Baghdad but does not bomb it. Does not send in ground forces at all; watches for movement. A worried Israel dons its gas masks daily a la 1991. Rumors of Syrian involvement circulate. Gas prices rise but not spectacularly.