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To: TobagoJack who wrote (28847)	2/18/2003 4:39:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, the biggest problem the USA troops will have when they arrive in Baghdad is finding somebody to shoot. They'll be driving around in their air-conditioned armoured vehicles and there won't be resistance. There's no reason for anyone to bother resisting [other than a relatively tiny number of Saddam aficianados]. Even the Islamic Jihadis will bide their time and wait for the target to soften up a bit and the new administration to develop a soft underbelly. I think it'll be a 110 minute war. Which is much faster than George I's 100 hour war and much faster than the 7 day war or whatever it was of Israel. King George II will achieve a world record. Existing Iraqi administrators will pretty much stay in their existing jobs if they don't get stroppy. There'll be lots of employment for the rest when the oil production is geared up and the United States of Freedom set up in a few of the palaces subsequent to a convention in Baghdad to redesign the United Nations into something more reflective of modern geopolitical positions. Iraq will be the first member country of the new federal system to replace the UN. The USA will be the second [or first equal]. Mqurice