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To: TobagoJack who wrote (28848)	2/18/2003 4:48:08 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Jay, the TweedleDum and TweedleDee of Afghanistan were scuttling around the mountains in remote Afghanistan, with forests and not a lot of roads. Baghdad is quite different. So is Tikrit. So is the rest. If there's nobody to fight, there won't be any fighting. Why would any householder want to fire a rifle or even rotten tomatoes out their window at a bunch of heavily armed Americans? The response would be swift and fatal - probably including everyone in the house. Since the Americans aren't going to be conducting and ethnic cleansing or genocidal attack and everyone knows they won't, there's no reason for fear to drive an opposition attack against them. So much easier just to surrender. There's nothing to be lost by surrender and plenty [everything] to be lost by fighting. Osama and Omar have not been doing much door to door fighting. Wisely. Note that when Omar had a chance to do just that in Afghanistan, they left town in a big hurry and that was where there were plenty of Islamic jihad fighters who were strong believers in their cause. In Saddam's fearful place, there won't be the support for resistance. Mqurice

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