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To: Bilow who wrote (27613)	4/28/2002 9:12:12 PM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You make some good points Carl, but one thing puzzles me. If Saddam abandons the oil fields in the north and south by withdrawing into Baghdad he can't pay his troops or more importantly the security forces and special Republican guards that protect his regime. Money and terror are perhaps the only inducements that insure the loyalty of a lot of these guys. Further if large parts of the country are cleared of his security apparatus and viable counter insurgencies are built, the need for a move to Baghdad may be obviated. Yes I realize there are problems with this strategy but to suggest that Saddam is impervious or that he has no weakness that can be exploited, I think is also wrong. Imo he must beat them at the beaches (the oil fields).