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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43848)	3/24/2003 9:49:28 PM
From: bob oserin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Thinking "outside of the box." 1. If the Umm Basr harbor must be cleared of mines, what is stopping the coalition and UN from bringing humanitarian relief supplies through Kuwait City. 2. One way to eliminate the false surrender of Iraqi soldiers, is to drop flyers with white diapers with safety pins. The directions would require that those who wish to surrender strip to their skin and don the attached "white groin cloth" as their "white flag."

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43848)	3/31/2003 8:47:03 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "The second reason that Iraq cannot be compared to Vietnam since there is no Ho Chi Minh trail from superpowers like China and Russia supporting Iraq. The supply lines for the Viet Cong guerrillas were amply primed by none less than the Chinese and Russians, the two superpowers with ample of cover the possibility for North Vietnam to tie down US correspondingly increased." (1) The Iraqis don't need supply lines, their country is already flooded with small arms. (2) If the Vietnam war had been as simple as a case of a supply line, the US would have won the war by cutting that line. Instead, the indigenous rebels in the South put on a very good fight with very little materiel. (3) The US is in over its head militarily and is diplomatically isolated. Because of this, our ability to prevent, for example, the Syrians from supplying "rebels" in Iraq with arms is very low. The Syrians, of course, understand our predicament and since they think that they are next on the "axis of evil", they, along with the Iranians and even the Saudis, have very good reasons to make sure that our experience in Iraq is as painful and protracted as possible. -- Carl