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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (37391)	8/13/2002 12:47:50 AM
From: jcky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<< Thank god!! Very few mountain ranges, Concentrated population. Unobstructed fields of fire, Decent roads and good tank terrain... What more could one ask for?? >> That's fine for a conventional warfare with superior air power. But you are presuming Saddam is just going to line up his troops and tanks like bowling pins in open desert country and get blown to bits. I just don't get the impression it's going to end up this way again. Saddam may elect to sacrifice his most suspect soldiers on the periphery and save his most loyal soldiers in selected and concentrated population centers. The technological superiority of our military capabilities can be largely negated by employing urban warfare. Unless the US is willing to carpet bomb major urban centers to achieve a swift and decisive victory, weeding out the Republican and Special Republican guards from Baghdad is going to entail a very labor intensive and dangerous operation (visualize IDF in Jenin). Compound this with the likely probability Iraqi troops will be dressed as casual civilians in Baghdad and the difficulty of the operation becomes self-explanatory. << Now if we could just persuade the Turks to shut off the the T&E waterworks, we'd get both Syria and Iraq in one fell swoop. >> Actually, the leverage of the T&E waterworks sound like a very good tool to be employed in a containment policy.