Bush Leaks on Operation Badger

Asked
Monday about former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill’s allegation that
the administration was preparing to attack Iraq from its first days in
office,President Bush told reporters that "we were dealing with Desert
Badger or flyovers and fly-betweens and looks, and we were fashioning
policy along those lines."

Desert Badger? This led to some head scratching around town. A Nexis search
reveals no public mention of a recent operation called Desert Badger,
although there are references to the University of Wisconsin Badgers.

So it seemed we’re left with several alternatives:

1. Bush has revealed a heretofore undisclosed Pentagon name for some campaign
in Iraq, maybe to enforce the "no-fly" zones or to suppress
antiaircraft operations.

2. He’s thinking of the famous Project Badger, a biological warfare vaccine
study.

3. He was recalling those Iraqi TU-16 "Badger" bombers.

4. He’s confusing his foxes and his badgers — Operation Desert Fox was
the name for a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998.

from the
Washington Post

Bush Leaks on Operation Badger

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