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To: stockman_scott who wrote (51011)	10/11/2002 12:29:45 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

If the conflict with Iraq reaches a point where the use of American military force is warranted, the battlefield itself could be far more treacherous than the one encountered by American and allied forces in the Persian Gulf war. Mr. Hussein will almost certainly seek to shift the battle into Iraq's cities, where America's airpower superiority and other technological advantages could quickly be erased. Gen. Joseph Hoar, a former American commander in the region, told the Senate last month that in urban warfare, ``All our advantages of command and control, technology, mobility, all of those things are, in part, given up, and you are working with corporals and sergeants and young men fighting street to street. It looks like the last 15 minutes of `Saving Private Ryan.''' Certainly our troops are at grave risk if they have to fight in the cities. Too, the citizens of Iraq whom Bush claims he wants to "save" from Saddam will suffer the most.