[Mark Felton]

This announcement suggests how far advanced Spec Ops guys are along.

It is also of course psy ops. But likely to be true.

They are trying to break the will of the Iraqi soldiers to fight. Those soldiers will know the state of their command and control.

If they know that US spec ops have control and that the 3rd division is parked on your doorstep, and that the US has total air supriority...then...

[bybybill]

Saddamnn, may he rest in hot oil, is one dead mother

[ambrose]

...then... scream Allah Akbar! as you go head on against a tank from your Toyota pickup truck.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

Mike Tobin -- Into Ba'ath party HQ, Presidental palaces of Saddam Hussein from SW Baghdad in the outskirts of the city. They went in and enountered no resistance, and left. Can return at any time. Getting indications that regime and military is collapsing.

[SauronOfMordor]

This must be utterly humiliating to all the Islamofascists of the world who thought that Iraq would be America's Vietnam. The Iraqi Army hasn't even put up a credible fight. They haven't even held out as long as the F---ing FRENCH did!