[Ragtime Cowgirl]

it's like a bunch of headless chickens....it may complicate efforts to cause mass capitulation

I agree, ken..but we're not blind. At the CENTCOM briefing this morn., Gen. Brooks said that we had contacts in the cities: "We have roughly 43 (Free) Iraqi forces (Iraqi citizens working w/us) divided into small froups 5-6 in squad, joined w/ civil defense units...they are being received rather well..." And that's just in Basrah.

These briefings allow the regular people like me to know more than the big time journalists who don't attend or listen...and thus, worry their audiences unnecessarily by making stuff up. Cads.

Headless chickens..not a bad term for anti-American W. journalists. (^;

Saddam & Sons = bunker-kill.

[ken5050]

Good points, RC...my basic thesis is thayt a regimne like Saddam's, so tightly centered on one person at the top, kind of falls apart when he's toast, but it make take a few days/weeks to die of its own volition...remember, the Itraqis have been subjected to incessant propaganda for TWICE as long as the Nazis dominated Germany....even after Hitler committed suicide, the Nazis fought on ferociouisly for some time....Iraq will have to be give a huge bath to get rid of the Ba'aths...