When you consider how much time we wasted on that dog and pony show with the UN prior to the invasion, I'm surprised Saddam didn't bus the whole Iraqi army into Syria!
For all the 'resistance'(not) the troops met during the initial invasion, looks like they may have.
If we have satalite video, it should be shown to Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco as a case study of "evacuation".
According to Gen. Sada, Saddam simply refused to believe that the US would attack. Shipping WMDs to Syria was as much to dodge future UN inspections as anything else.