[Travis McGee]

Hopefully this is not another rosy scenario being peddled.

[Lady In Blue]

ping

[UnBlinkingEye]

According to Fox Pentagon correspondent Bret Baier

Is Bret paid directly by the government, or is Fox a subcontractor?

[green team 1999]

if this news was read on baghdad ,it could get people killed,the source should have kept quiet.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I have appreciated Carl Limbacher's writing efforts in the past, but this one belongs in the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" category.

[Starwind]

Would be great for us, our allies, Iraqi's if true. But I fear more likely it's Monday's rally rumor?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Well now, if you think about it, historically....isn't this HOW regimes fall? From within?

[Burkeman1]

If history is any indicator this is wishful thinking. Stalin went into hiding during the first weeks of the war when Hitler invaded. He reportedly got drunk and hung out at his villa. When his cronies came to his Dacha to fetch him- he was expecting to be arressted and killed. He wasn't.

In such terror regimes all of the little Stalin's and Sadaam's depend on the heirarchy for survival. There was fierce loyalty to Stalin among his apparatchiks not because they loved him (they hated him) but because they would be dead without him. That is the same with the regime Sadaam has (and by many accounts he actually modeled his terror regime on a study of Stalin's tactics.) That this was not known to our fancy boy neocons when calling for this war is less than heartening.

[arkady_renko]

Reminds me a little of the deal with Chief Moose and the snipers.

[Prince Charles]

That's what what John Keegan has also said. We don't need to enter Baghdad, it will collapse from within after we surround it.

[MattAMiller]

If some Pentagon bigwig has gotten over optimistic about one particular scenario then this doesn't bother me. But I certainly hope they aren't counting on this.

[so_real]

I don't care how the regime falls; but please capture Hussein alive that he may be given a public and fair trial and summarily executed for all his oppressed citizens to see. Only then will they truly be free.

[LPStar]

According to Fox Pentagon correspondent Bret Baier, the source told him "We know who's with us, and we know who's against us, and we're in constant communication."

Well, this is a crafty and vicious and wily enemy. I wouldn't be too sure about knowing who's on who's side. We could have double agents here.

[Antoninus]

Wonder how many Ba'athist loyalists will be accidentally shot by paranoid Saddam as a result of this report? Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of criminals. Spread it around....

[kimosabe31]

bump

[thegreatbeast]

The way I heard it was the Baer(?) correspondent to Pentagon for Fox told Shepard Smith for broadcast that a senior Pentagon official told him that Baghdad would fall from within rather than without. There were really no more specifics than that so I was thinking that Hussein, if he is alive, would be capped by someone with access. My mind did not run to Delta Force scenarios. Who knows?
Sounds good though.