ABC Radio is reporting the Coalition is on the tarmac, opposition is nowhere to be seen

ABC News - Radio | 04/03/03 | ABC News

[BaghdadBarney]

ABC radio reporter Bob Schmidt, tells listeners via phone, that tanks and other armored vehicles broke through the barriers of Saddam Intl. Airport and has yet to experience any resistance...

[Spirited]

"Lynch-Saddam International Airport"

Best I have seen on subject.....LOL... Very suitable.

[728b]

BTW- I do share your concern there might be a trap ahead. However I think the shock and awe campaign was not shock and awe for Baghdad, but shock and awe for the RGs that no longer exist as they once did. We just did not get to see it because there is not a RG cam.

Also considering Saddam has not been heard from, the surviving generals would be less likely to use WMDs. Making hard decisions as well a laying a trap, when your are being hotly pursued, is very difficult.

I pray that Saddam’s ilk will receive the Mussolini treatment, and his own people will take care of the house to house threat. That is, we will put out the word, "turn in anyone you know that is a RG or a member of Saddam's death squad." The people will be motivated by revenge.

[Michael.SF.]

Do try to keep up.

The latest I have heard (last night and repeated this morning by Elenor Clift):

'We always knew we would win the war. But I don't know if we will be able to win the peace.'

GAWD!!!!! They never give up.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

I think it is funny that saddam keeps telling his people that "victory is at hand" when every day, or few hours, some other place is falling to US or Britsh forces.

Cause victory is at hand! Ours. Obviously a signal for the elite to get out of Dodge!

[Ken H]

The Iraqi DNC has identified its first voter.

"OMG, I shot Pat Buchanan by mistake!"

[Republic of Texas]

The stiff resistance in Shiite country is coming from Baathists (Sunni's) who were shipped in specifically for that reason.

[netmilsmom]

I don't think anyone will flame you.
We are all scared of that.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Easy way to handle that. Ignore them and don't go in the houses. Eventually they will starve to death or get out of the houses.

[BaghdadBarney]

A possible fight? Well I hope Bob Schmidt is watching Fox News... It is a pretty big airport...

[Republic of Texas]

It could be that their fighting forces have been decimated by air power and have had enough. But what is the fun of discussing that?

[LS]

I haven't read all the posts on this, and so this is the first time I've read your theory, but it strikes me as highly plausible! If the goal was to get the RG, that might have done it.

BTW, can you account for the II Marine Exped. Force, which has not been heard from yet?

[BaghdadBarney]

"I don't know if that's a good thing or not because sooner or later we have to run into this dude's army somewhere," said Capt. John Whyte, 31, of Billerica, Mass., an Apache Company commander in the Army's Third Infantry Division.

[LS]

Last night Maj. Bob said that we were killing them by the bushels. He said there were trucks with body parts. Another Fox military analyst confirmed this.

Remember Patton? "Wade into the enemy. Spill HIS blood. Shoot HIM in the belly! We'll kill those Hun b@st@rds by the bushel."

[LS]

I have not yet seen evidence in THIS war that we have reason to "underestimate" Saddam. Actually, think about it, in the LAST war we over estimated him too.

[bert]

Very early on, Nasireah I think, A general presented a one hundred acre facility completely surrounded with fences and I think razor wire. It was a military chemical facility.

I firmly believe that that officer had been sweating to live until the day when the Americans would arrive. He was for sure one of the "ranking officers" frequently referenced ashaving contact with our side.

[LS]

I think it should be evident to everyone by now that "shock and awe" was a total RUSE to make everyone think we were going to do a 1991-type Baghdad bombing. The RG kept waiting for "shock and awe" while we moved 90,000 men into their SUBURBS.

We all should be chastened (I bought into it too, for a while) and remember how Schwartzkopf USED the media in 1991 to set up a phoney "amphibious" invasion and the "hey diddle diddle, right up the middle" strategy. We've all been had, and I'm glad we were!

[Caipirabob]

Looks to good to be true = It is too good to be true.

Please pray for the safety of our troops!

[Im Your Huckleberry]

The Muslim hordes in the 11th and 12th centuries during the first, second and third crusades, did the same sh!t.

This is similar to the tactic they used to destroy the Christian army at the Horns of Hattin. They put up a fierce resistance to draw an enemy attack, then retreated. They lured the crusaders into the area between the Horns of Hattin, and the crusaders were all cocky thinking they had driven them, and then the barbarians in filthy nightshirts closed the trap and fell on them from both sides, and wiped them out almost to a man.

This seems way too easy. While I don't want to be OVER estimating them, I'd rather we worried about UNDER estimating them. So-damn Insane has proven he is a ruthless, vicious, barbarian and I don't trust for one minute that this might not be a trap. Lure us in with "cheers" of our arrival, no resistance, get us in the boundaries, and then fall on our guys (like Mogadishu, which seems to be So-damn's favorite scenario).

Then he sets off a nuke or dirty bomb, destroying Baghdad, annhilating his own people (and the Arab world, of course, blaming it on us, causing an uprising) and we lose most of our Marines and the 3rd ID.

Don't discount this scenario. Wait and see. We need to be cautious here. The game's not over yet, and I won't believe it is until the entire city is under our control, and we have So-damn Insane's head being paraded through the streets of Baghdad on the end of a stick.

[Iowamerican]

It's a good thing Clinton softened the Iraqi military up as much as he claimed. Otherwise our guys wouldn't be having nearly as much success, what with being bogged down, undermanned and undersupplied and all.

[babygene]

"Again, I pray I'm wrong, but I won't feel better until we spend a week or two there with Baghdad 100% under our control."

Hell, New York City isn't 100% under our control...