[plain talk]

For some time now I've thought about the possibility that the guards take off their uniforms and blend into the streets of Bagdad, let us "win" and take over the country and then fight guerilla style.

[LS]

I sincerely doubt that. Once Saddam is clearly out of power, the "average" Iraqis will tear these scum apart---and you best believe they know who the bad guys are. Trust me, you are looking at people being hunted like animals.

Imagine a group of Nazis suddenly turned loose in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in 1950!

[arkady_renko]

Read some of the accounts of detained or deserting RG soldiers. They have been bombed to mush, terrified, starved by their leaders. They are sick of it all. I am sure there are some diehards out there, but I am sure that most of Saddams 'elite' hear him say, "Kill them with your hands" and say to themselves, "Let that bastard come out here and become a pink vapor trail. I'm outta here."

Not over by any means, but our troops are getting better, more battle smart every hour. They are a force many levels above the best of the RG.

A_R

[Tom Bombadil]

, let us "win" and take over the country and then fight guerilla style.

They will need the support of a population they have controlled up to this point with fear. If they don't change their control methods, a geurilla war will be short lived, particularly if the people percieve the alternative as one that will just let them live their lives without fear.