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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (87206)3/28/2003 8:40:34 AM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Imus had Bob Arnot on this morning. He is embedded with a unit in south iraq. He speaks arabic and i have found him to be insightful in the past. He talked to some US officers, (captains) who believe that bagdad is not stalingrad or berlin where the germans fought to the last man and at the end launched an attack. These captains believe badgad and then the regime will implode from the inside. Concentration now should be on killing republican guard formations. Eventually when it becomes clear that the US wont cut and run(somalia) as the regime believes and that the iraqi military cannot inflict enough pain to stop the US, individual ministers, generals, etc will cut deals. The hesitancy perhaps?? to use chem weapons is part of this end game.
I certainly hope this is true because if we have to go house to house and the iraqi people view their support of the regime like the russians viewed stalin, it can be a big mess particularly in terms of civilian casualties. Higher US casualties will create not a call for retreat or truce, it will bring into question whether in our desire to protect civilians we are sacrificing our youngsters. Trent Lott implied this on Hardball last nite and there have to be generals thinking the same thing. So these next few days are so important. By the time we get back monday.......fill in blank. mike
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