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To: Ilaine who wrote (37200)8/12/2002 10:39:05 AM
From: Bilow  Respond to of 281500
 
Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "I don't think Saddam is as smart, or as insightful, as Carl Bilow."

From today's news:

Deliberately echoing the famous remarks of British wartime leader Winston Churchill, Mr Saddam said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday: 'If they come, we are ready. We will fight them on the streets, from the rooftops, from house to house. We will never surrender.'
straitstimes.asia1.com.sg

Sounds to me like he's playing it the smart way, at least if that's the tactics they're preparing for. God knows he should have learned his lesson from the Kuwait liberation.

I was planning to post some quotes showing that Saddam used cities as defensive points during the defensive part of his war with Iran (as opposed to the war in Kuwait where he was on the offense), but I lost the quote.

-- Carl



To: Ilaine who wrote (37200)8/12/2002 11:08:00 AM
From: KLP  Respond to of 281500
 
This may be exactly why the news is so schizophrenic lately:

Think like an Iraqi. What do they do when they are attacked? Run away, fall back, regroup. What if they think that if we're attacked we'll do what they do? What if they can't think through what we'll really do?


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