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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (7296)	7/28/2003 7:23:53 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Myers: Saddam Too Busy Running to Direct Attacks Sunday, July 27, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein (search) is moving around to avoid capture and is unable to direct attacks against American forces, the highest-ranking U.S. military officer said Sunday. Gen. Richard Myers (search), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited 4th Infantry commanders in Tikrit and later told reporters in Baghdad that Saddam "was too busy trying to save his own skin" to lead the insurgency against American forces. "He is so busy surviving he is having no impact on the security situation here," Myers said. "It's a big country, but we'll find him." Hours earlier, a U.S. soldier was killed south of Baghdad (search). The military provided little information about the 2:35 a.m. attack, which brought to 48 the number of U.S. forces killed in combat in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1. So far, 163 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq, 16 more than were killed in the 1991 Gulf War. The U.S. military is undaunted by the wave of guerrilla attacks, Myers said. "We understand that there are going to be casualties," he said. "The most important thing is to understand why we're here." American forces focused their hunt for Saddam Hussein around Tikrit, his Tigris River hometown, and reported a near-miss Sunday in a raid to capture his new chief of security -- and perhaps the ousted dictator himself. Myers said the deaths of Saddam's sons Qusay and Uday, who were killed July 22 in a shootout with U.S. troops, has prompted more Iraqis to come forward with information with tips about the possible whereabouts of the former dictator. "More Iraqis now are feeling freer to come forward," Myers said. "You wouldn't dare come forward in the past without fear that your children or that some member of your family would be tortured or killed or dragged off to jail." Myers met with Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, and planned to leave Monday.

To: calgal who wrote (7296)	7/28/2003 3:02:52 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

I think the press is overwhelmingly concerned that Americans are killed when the war is "over". Yet tens of thousands die on the highway, and no one is marching to "Ban the Automobile Commute". The reality is, there is a huge Ba'ath party machine, far more ruthless with a purity for violence than any Nazi party ever was. The Nazis never issued arms to the rank and file, come one, come all. As the article just posted here from the WSJ said, the average person in the US has NO CONCEPT of the nature of the cruelty and suffering in Iraq, and the large number of people involved with the cruelty, who still battle the US forces. The general population's greatest Fear is that we will get discouraged and leave. We should have big demonstrations with signs reading "Iraq: We Will Stay and Defeat the Ba'ath". If 100,000 people marched in Washington with =that= resolve, the Ba'ath and their terrorist allies would wither away in discouragement. Instead, we get headlines about minor bickering which give the Ba'ath hope.