Uhh... Hate to rain on Ann's parade, but from people I knew in the Gulf War, Saddam's Republican Guard were not wimps. As I heard, "They were a whole different class of soldier." Much more professional. Probably make up the majority of the current "insurgents".
Uh, but the result was the same: Iraq was crushed in no time so the Republic Guard (elire or not) was pretty much a paper tiger.
Like I said, she makes it all up as she goes. If something sounds good to her she says it, and whether it is true or not isn't really important.
The elite Republican Guard are the ones running this "insurgency". Afer all, if they can't find OBL or Zach-a-somebody, seems a bunch of lower echelon soldiers could remain at large.
I prefer to call it a low grade civil war.
The weapons caches they're finding recently have been stored probably for years.
It's not rocket science.
Our recent history in Viet Nam and Clinton's approach to several horrendus terror attacks pre 9-11 told Saddam & Sons to give us what our Colonists gave to the British Army.
Heaven forbid somebody would hide in a tree and shoot you.
We all understand why this aministration can't afford to say this and prefer to label them from Al Quada.
I can't believe the Democrats aren't claiming this scenario.
(Of course the flip side is we could simply tell them then the war isn't over yet.) ;^)
I absolutely LOVE President Bush, but that's the way I'm calling it.