To: Mean Maryjean
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 Saddams 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.
122 posted on
04/03/2003 11:39:49 AM PST by
728b
(Never take counsel in you fears - unknown)
To: 728b
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!
136 posted on
04/03/2003 11:50:21 AM PST by
LS
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