[WVNan]

Uh oh, here comes the gas, and blame America. Those evil U.S. forces killed all those civilians who were only trying to protect their city. I'd bet on it.

[mitchbert]

I'm thinking the same thing. While I wouldn't call the advance on BAG easy (there's nothing easy about what the Coalition forces have done in the past 2 weeks) the Iraqi monster isn't quite dead yet. There's still likely several thousand fanatical troops with years of blood on their hands in there, and I can't see them rolling over by choice. Face it, the regime doesn't care one iota about the lives of its' citizens, and if they know they're going down what would motivate them to resist trying to inflict as much damage and death as they can.

I sense the next few days could be very ugly. If they aren't, there will probably be no time in my life I'll be so happy to be wrong.

[Yardstick]

Uh oh, here comes the gas, and blame America. Those evil U.S. forces killed all those civilians who were only trying to protect their city. I'd bet on it.

This was my first thought as well. Saddam is going to use the massacre of these people to inflame the 5 million or so Baghdadis against the American forces.