DOUBLE TROUBLE COMING, SADDAM

New York Post ^ | 3/28/03 | ANDY GELLER

[kattracks]

With two days of sandstorms finally over, allied warplanes flew 1,500 sorties against targets in north and south Iraq yesterday, while coalition troops resumed their march north to Baghdad.

The planes dropped bombs "just about as fast as we can load them," said Capt. Thomas Parker aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in the Persian Gulf.

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A long siege of Baghdad will be, politically, hard to sustain. Bush has to be willing to have the military take casualties in order to end this thing before the worldwide left gets into full gear.

[OpusatFR]

That miserable evil Saddam has pulled his trained and equiped troops to defend Baghdad and is forcing untrained people on penalty of death to fight.

I don't know anything about military strategy. But, isn't putting all your trained and equiped military in one place, a group of concentric circles (sort of like the original Ziggurat around Babylon that was built by Nebuchadnezzar) a bad strategery? He seems to be thinking of a reverse Babylonian thirteen-year siege of Tyre. The Persians who conquered Babylon conquered using what strategy?

I wouldn't put it past this evil man to think himself in terms of a revived Babylonian Empire. He's quite insane.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I wouldn't put it past this evil man to think himself in terms of a revived Babylonian Empire. He's quite insane."

He already does. Thinks he is the re-incarnation of Nebuchadnezzar.

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Amid increasing signs there will be no quick victory, the U.S. military plans to increase its troop strength in Iraq by 120,000 by the end of April.

Some ot these were the two divisions activated weeks ago but whose equipment was still in the Med waiting for Turkey to come around
It is NOT an unexpected increase
The others are probably initial occupational forces

[N. Theknow]

Shock and Awe!

[IoCaster]

"The fate of three journalists..."

Hmm....FNC reporter in Jordan just broke some news about three people accused of spying for the coalition arrested in Baghdad.

[IoCaster]

"Officials said 14 members of the 2nd Expeditionary force were wounded and 11 others missing after 90 minutes of house-to-house fighting around Nasiriyah."

The casualties would rise exponentially with this kind of urban warfare in Baghdad.

[bvw]

Visual overload! Took me twenty seconds to figure out what that picture showed and then I wished I hadn't.