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To: John Carragher who wrote (70778)	2/1/2003 9:02:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Most thought the conflict would then last up to three months, though one said it could take longer and eight thought it would be over in a month I'm surprised they think it would take so long, unless they are including mop-up operations in the estimate. How many men do they think will be willing to fight to the death for Saddam Hussein? My guess from what I've read, not that I'm a military expert, is that the war will take days, not weeks, and the US forces will simply go around & surround any pockets of resistance. The chief danger is that Saddam & kin will try to kill as many people as they can out of spite. For this purpose, they don't have to be able to kill US soldiers; Iraqi civilians will do just as well, since the US will be blamed for all Iraqi deaths, including those who die at Iraqi hands. Cf. the Israeli/Palestinian conflict for the template for this line of moral reasoning.