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To: stockman_scott who wrote (51674)	10/13/2002 1:31:29 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Yes, the worst-case of a long urban fight is possible. But you have to ask yourself, what Iraqi units have such good morale that they will keep fighting for months, spread out in a city, with no electricity or communications (for those we will disrupt)? Will they have the support of the people? Will they want to die for Saddam Hussein, or just to preserve their lives, as they sit in the dark, isolated, listening to American planes and troops coming closer? What do you think? Sometimes you have to think that what the opponents of the war really fear most is the best, most likely case -- an American victory so quick and crushing that we hardly find anybody to fight.