To: CedarDave
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.
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53 posted on
03/24/2003 8:39:08 AM PST by
johnb838
(In for a penny, in for a pound.)
To: johnb838
This looks a bit like Lee's advance into Pennsylvania. If he had had the kind of technological supperiority that the US commanders enjoy, especially intelligence data, we'd all be speaking Southern by now.
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