The Iraqis are slumming a bit in their bellicose rhetoric these days compared with the halcyon pre-1991 period. It used to be that the streets would "run red with American blood." Now they vow to fight us with "every stick, every stone and even our hands."
Can you imagine what any of those Iraqi veterans who remember the carnage that our Apaches, Warthogs and AC-130s wreaked upon them in 1991 are thinking today? Michael Ledeen said that an F-15 Eagle patrolling the Northern No-Fly zone caused 20 Iraqi soldiers to drop their weapons and surrender just by flying over them two weeks ago.
My guess the regular army of Iraq would surrender immediately, except for the republican guards.