[Diddley]

The author states, "My reason for writing this is not to postulate a gloom-and-doom scenario but to suggest that we be prepared to react to an enemy game plan that may be different from our own."

I assume this won't happen, because "he's dead".

[Spruce]

[jerrymdss]

Someone has too much time on their hands...Title should be "Saddams Dream".

[BushCountry]

Hyperbole! Doom and Gloomers! Before the war all the oil fields would be afire, thousands upons thousands of dead Americans, etc... More BS from people who can not accept a conservative as president, it is their last dying gasp as they watch in horror what a man of honor can do.

[Mister Magoo]

Phase IV: Saddam's Russian doctor extracts Saddam's DNA from his dead, lifeless corpse. Saddam's Russian doctor takes said DNA to the jungles of Brazil. After successfully cloning 70 young Saddams, the Fedayeen Saddam place the young clones with the families of Palestinian suicide bombers to foster the right environment. All these young Saddams arise through puberty to command a new Iraq and to vainquish the imperialist West.

[colorado tanker]

How stupid. Dictators used to living in multiple palaces who are kept in power by secret police don't go to ground to fight a guerilla war. They either die or go into exile at a not quite so nice palace.

Has this "analyst" noticed that no one in Southern Iraq is crying any tears over Saddam; indeed many people are risking death to get away from his reamaining henchmen?

[uncbob]

The second phase would be a protracted guerrilla war against the "occupation,"

And just where and how is Saddam going to lead this war

[Poohbah]

He's not dead...he's pining for the fjords.

[Joe Bonforte]

I respect the guy for thinking this through from Saddam's viewpoint. That doesn't mean he really thinks Saddam can do it, unless we seriously screw up. (Assuming Saddam is alive, of course, which I doubt. I think he's Purina Worm Chow.)

Remember that Saddam is a megalomaniac. His view of the world is not necessarily very close to reality. He may very well have such a plan, though his chances of carrying it out against determined American opposition are approximately zero.

[randog]

This article makes some monumental leaps of faith. First, the author assumes that Saddam is alive, and if he is alive and survives the war will live in sweet luxurious exile from whence he can plan his return to the world stage. Secondly, he assumes that the Fedayeen and other goons will roam the countryside with impunity because the citizens love to be used as suicide bombers and human shields. No, the citizens would never turn on Saddam's goons.

This article is just one of many to come. Now that the left has been proven to be grossly wrong (again), they're eagerly starting in on their next bunch of sour grapes.

[Nick Danger]

If we haven't already, we will soon enough discover one or more entrances into the network of tunnels and bunkers where Saddam thinks he's going to ride out whatever is happening above. And that's if he isn't already dead.

[johniegrad]

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[m1911]

Phase III would then be to amass enough semi-conventional power to overwhelm the U.N. and interim government mechanisms.

Thereby alienating the only friends outside Iraq they will really have.