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It is crap through and through to cast aspersions on one of the most effective military movements in history. This is a blitzkreig of the most devastating type. But you prefer to listen to the networks desparate to diminish Bush's accomplishment. Why is that?

You Bush bot neo-pinkos are all alike. Go straight for the poster instead of arguing the point. Every time. Like clockwork. It's all about Georgie and all with opposing opinions must be taken after.

You're all schizzy freaken nutjobs.

I'll make one more attempt to stick to the point before I wave bye-bye.

I see things with my own eyes, I don't watch the networks. Anyone could run across a desert at full speed if you don't want your men to get any sleep, you want your logistical assets to be left behind and you want to leave your ass wide open. Not that it shouldn't ever be done, but at least there should be a reason.

We ran across a desert at a gazillion miles an hour to sit 50 miles outside of Baghdad? Can you tell me the purpose? No you can't, because you haven't the slightest clue, not the foggiest idea. I got news for you, neither does anybody else so don't feel bad. What's funny is that anyone thinks that this is the work of military genius.

Take of your political glasses for two seconds and watch FOX News, they really are rationing MRE's and they really have outran their supply trains, and they really are sitting in the desert waiting, and those mechanics really did get killed because some very basic and ancient military doctrine was ignored. That's secure the ground you capture.

See, for some odd reason some of us (like you) think every General is a paragon of virtue. Some Generals are the cream of the crop, some are the bottom of a cesspool, some are something in between. They all love types who swallow everything that's fed to them. Gives them elbow room.

You're all schizzy freaken nutjobs.

Dude have some faith. I don't have cable, know better than to believe the spin on regular tv; I don't have a clue about how to run a war, and don't need to. After 8 years of Clinton I again have faith in my president and my government. Shit happens to the best of plans, and things will work out exactly when they are supposed to. No one will starve out there, and they are going to be fine.

Just have faith.

We ran across a desert at a gazillion miles an hour to sit 50 miles outside of Baghdad? Can you tell me the purpose?

To be as aggressive as feasible -- to occupy as much of Iraq as soon as possible and to be as close to Baghdad as possible, as soon as possible. Or, as the General said yesterday at the Pentagon briefing, "Because we could."

Mull that over and swallow, our dear Bush basher. ;-)

there should be a reason.

Consider this possibility. The tank and LAR run to Baghdad was televised, so we wanted them to know we were closing in real fast.
Someone suggested the strategy was to panic the Iraqi command into bringing as much as possible of the Republican guard units back to defend Baghdad from this televised blitzkreig American assault, thereby pinning as many of them there as possible so that there would be less of them in the South, North, West and ?East to fight through.

Bunched up around Baghdad the Republican Guard divisions would be much easier to "soften" up from the air.