On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:31:25AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> At 02:36 PM 3/20/03 +0000, Ken Brown wrote:
> >Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it
> unlikely
> >that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance
>
> >is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the
> >current Ba'athist government. A lot of them will give up quickly. Could
>
> >be wrong of course.
> >...
> >Large-scale House-to-house fighting unlikely.
>
> Iraqis don't have that Bill of Rights bullet item that bars troops in
> houses.
> Picture a few tens of K of lone (or paired) well armed RK loyalists
> holed up in spare
> rooms with families. Whose job is to impede progress into the city.
> Who know they are eventual toast if the locals are no longer held by
> fear.
I wouldn't be too quick to believe the megacorp news agit/prop about how
much Saddam is hated, what a horrible dictatorship it is, etc. Have you noticed
all the interviews here and there, like on the BBC, with Iraqi's who own their
own AK-47? It seems that just about any male has his own, in his house.
What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons
freely? Shades of Switzerland!
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