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The infiltration dovetails with US concerns that Saddam is preparing what it calls the 'Stalingrad Factor' to defend the capital, seeking to establish an iron ring of defences, possibly involving the deployment of chemical and biological weapons.

I have a funny feeling that this is what Sadaam has been doing all along, his defenses have been limited since '91, difficult to rebuild them & buy new SCUDS etc. So perhaps he has pooled all his resources and hidden them in residential areas, mosques etc. and is staging his own Alamo with the last ditch effort being chem weapons, so if he can't win he'll take the popultion of Bagdhad with him. If he did that, it would likly be seen by the world as a catastrophic event brought about by the actions of the U.S. Not a good thing, we would win the battle but lose the war so to speak. I'm really hoping that we bagged him in the initial attack.

If you are right and Saddam was banking on a last hurrah with chems and we bagged him or made him irrelevent the first night, then that would have to be the most genious war planning anyone has ever accomplished.

You can see why Saddam might do this. Hitler thought Stalin was just the greatest thug , rather than a leader. The Spring floods of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley start now. They are Saddam's equivalent of Russian Winter. We have long supply lines, just like Stalingrad, What's more Saddam's "Minister of Information" even said that "They will get stuck in the mud." There is an extensive flood control system that could be manipulated, if we wait too long.

I have trust we have gotten there "fustest with the mostest." We have more than we know riding on the outcome.