"As awful as he is none of the senior leadership would execute US PWs and then show the bodies on television to rub our faces in it."

Yes, they would.

"They are evil, crazy and stupid, but not suicidal."

YES, they are suicidal.

"We need to get in Baghdad now with Airborne and clean this lot out before they do worse, because if they did this, they'll do anything."

I'm sorry but there is this naive train of thought that we'll just drop 10,000 troops into a city of 5,000,000, march to the bunker and arrest the leadership. We have to destroy almost 80,000 Republican Guard troops. The point has not been made sufficiently that the Iraqis can be POW's and survive and flourish in the new Iraq, at this point, and if this story is true, I'll be honest. If it were me, I'd empty every clip and still have one round in my back up pistol for my head if I thought I were going to be captured, tortured and executed (Sorry, that's the old jarhead mentatlity in me coming out). The strategy thus far from the Iraqis has been brilliant on the ground. Not as effective they would like yet, but keep watching. We can no longer give quarter or mercy. It's time to unleash the full capacity of our air force on every building where their troops are hiding. Public and world opinion be damned.

V