[CedarDave]

Just on Fox -- reporter from Kuwait reports he received an email from a western reporter just inside Iraq. That email purports to say that troops are NOT securing areas as they rush to Baghdad and they remain very dangerous places to be in, much more so than in other war zones he had been in. His (email writer's) closing was that the troops keep moving forward because they can't go back.

Maybe Gertz (on Drudge last night) has a point about not enough troops deployed.

[over3Owithabrain]

If true, it's hard to believe the brass didn't have a plan for this scenario.

[johnb838]

General Tommy Franks said pretty much the same thing. We know the flanks are a bit exposed but the Iraqis have nothing to hit them with that can stop them. Yes, Basra was leapfrogged. Yes, it is quite a dangerous place. We have the oil fields, terminals, and ports. We don't really need the population centers right away.

In for a penny, in for a pound.