To Anti-War Reporters: SADDAN HAS NO RESUPPLY!

efreedom news | 3/30/03

[rebel]

Because Supply Problems have become such an enormous focus of the media's criticism of the US I have one thought to impart - No one has yet written about the major supply problem of this war:

*****Saddam has no resupply*****

Given that Saddam has to try and take advantage of this "pause" - what can he do? Now is the time that the coalition is at its weakest. We know, so Saddam knows that massive reinforcements are on the way. Saddam has to assume that US air power will succeed in decimating his Republican Guard while it sits surrounding Baghdad. Will he draw those forces back even closer, into Baghdad?

We control Saddam's only port at Basra. The borders with Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are ours. The Iranians are unlikely to help him. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has warned Syria not to meddle in the Iraq war. Saddam has to fight with whatever he has - and that is it. Saddam grows weaker and we grow stronger by the hour. The irregulars Saddam has employed are a nuisance but are not militarily significant.

[ChicagoRepublican]

Syria has been supplying Iraq. Rumours say that we knocked out the oil-pipelines, rail-lines and highways on the border, but terrorists and supplies are still going across the border.

[alloysteel]

B-B-But-but-but this just isn't FAIR! The coalition forces must stand down, so a resupply convoy can get through from Syria, carrying goods and armaments from France, Germany and Russia. After all, they have CONTRACTS, and if your word is not good on a contract, what is it worth? Besides, the whole point of the war is to bankrupt the US. Since the Soviet Union imploded, the US has not had a worthy adversary other than Iraq, and now they are at such a pitiful level, it seems almost cruel and unjust to keep pounding on them.

Of course, the only objective for engaging in war is to win, and take your expenses out of the goods and treasure your defeated enemy surrenders to you as tribute. Trial lawyers understand this principle very well.

[rebel]

I don't think there are tanks or tankers, or BMPs, or fuel, or anything of consquence getting to Saddam. Nothing is getting in that makes any material diffrence to the war.

But the point is...and only a bubblehead can doubt it, Saddams supply problem is far far greater than ours but the media says nothing about that.

[Theresa]

"I don't think there are tanks or tankers, or BMPs, or fuel, or anything of consquence getting to Saddam. Nothing is getting in that makes any material diffrence to the war. "

Or food, water, or medicine. I tend to agree with you. Their support system is probably terrible.