Iraq moving troops, artillery closer to Kuwaiti border

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/5112890.htm ^

[lightsabre]

Hmmmm....

[Catspaw]

Yes, we are going to have to find an Italian film crew for these Iraqi soldiers to surrender to like they did in 1991.

[AppyPappy]

Sitting ducks. They have completely forgotten about cruise missiles.

[scooter2]

Yipee. More targets.

[AntiGuv]

Those border troops aren't there to fight. They're put in the way only to tie up our forces long enough for the Republican Guard to blow up the Rumaila oil fields...

[Spruce]

Cannon fodder. These poor bastards' only duty is to die horribly on CNN so the soccer-moms/peaceniks/liberals will see how "unfair", "brutal", and "savage" our military is and call for an immediate cease-fire.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

These poor bastards are nothing more than pawns in Saddam's end-game. We'll probably put tens of thousands of them into giant POW camps in Kuwait. Like the denizens of Guantanamo, they will quickly acquire a taste for Froot Loops, bagels, and the like.

[Arkie2]

I feel sorry for these conscripts. They cetainly aren't effective soldiers and definitely don't want to fight. They're just cannon fodder.

[Spruce]

Cannon fodder. These poor bastards' only duty is to die horribly on CNN so the soccer-moms/peaceniks/liberals will see how "unfair", "brutal", and "savage" our military is and call for an immediate cease-fire.

[jriemer]

Yipee. More targets.

Damn. Beat me to it.

[Camerican]

What do you mean "tie up our forces". One pass-over by a half-dozen apaches and they'll be bone and ashes.

[r9etb]

Sitting ducks. They have completely forgotten about cruise missiles.

I don't think they've forgotten a single thing from last time. That's why these guys are scared to death.

The wildcard is this: "Some say their families were put under protective custody" to make sure they fight...

Saddam is an evil, evil SOB. Everybody knows what "protective custody" means. Those Iraqi troops are damned if they do fight, and even more damned if they don't. I think a humanitarian approach might be to start that part of the war off with a noisy artillery barrage that gives these guys an honorable excuse to surrender.

[vooch]

exactly, merely speed bumps

[VRWC_minion]

Another reason to get rid of the madman.

[AppyPappy]

Good catch. Saddam wants to ensure they fight so he holds their families hostage. If I were an Iraqi, I would have to ask myself "Who do I fight?"

[Green Kayak]

Better yet, how about another drone like in 1991?



No, not Al Gore.

[mitchbert]

I'm beginning to think one of the biggest challenges will be stopping the soon-to-be-freed Iraqi people from literally tearing their soon-to-be-former oppressors apart in the streets after dragging them from their hiding places and homes the minute the regime collapses. Then again, maybe we'll just let them get it out of their system. Keeps the cost of the trials down, after all.

[templar]

"Some say their families were put under protective custody" to make sure they fight, ... "They are terrified," said one army captain, clad in a blue beret. "They won't surrender at the first shot. They will surrender when they hear the first American tank turn on its engine."

Perhaps we should look at these troops less as enemy warriors and more as hostages awaiting rescue.

[maxamillion]

I wonder what these troops were thinking as they traveled down the hiway of death to get there...

[Loyalist]

"They won't surrender at the first shot. They will surrender when they hear the first American tank turn on its engine."

What would happen if the Iraqi militia and the French army faced each other?