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To: mt_mike who wrote (16291)4/3/2003 5:09:57 PM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 89467
 
Official: U.S. May Isolate Baghdad

By ROBERT BURNS
AP MILITARY WRITER
4/3/03

cnn.com

WASHINGTON -- American forces might stop short of storming Baghdad and instead isolate it while the makings of a new national government are put in place, President Bush's top military adviser said Thursday.

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicated the coming days might bring neither an all-out fight for the city, as many have predicted, nor a conventional siege of the capital.