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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (22289)3/26/2002 6:35:14 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Lots of reserves would have to be called out, and we'd hear about it at a local level.

I don't know about the actual numbers of armored divisions that would be required, particularly as Saddam's army has probably not recovered in any substantial way from the Gulf War. I suspect that the US would start with a heavy bombardment lasting a long time before actually engaging in a land war. Whatever conventional assets Saddam salvaged or replaced as a result of his Gulf War losses would be heavily punished by air, making the land war a lot less demanding from an assets standpoint.

Saddam would clearly use WMDs against US land troops and/or Israel once the noose tightened around him. How effective they would be is unknown and unknowable until they are actually used.

God help us if he has nukes. I think we can safely assume that he has dirty bombs which would wreak havoc on oilfields and in Israel. Also injure a lot of our boys.
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