The US military were prohibited from doing anything. So how exactly were they "ready to go"?
As much as you like to profess how I'm the the one not "getting it" in this situation, it appears you are as much as, if not more, at fault for this miscommunication. I can only think that you're line of thinking is that by me saying they weren't "ready to go", I meant the US military were sitting around drunk watching "the game" or in a similar non-chalant state. This is not what I meant or mean. I meant & mean as they were not willing to go, they were not "ready to go".
And perhaps before you insult my intelligence, you would learn about sentence construction & the like so as not to keep repeating your schoolboy errors. Also, to use "OWNED" here implies childishness.