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Note: In the Persian Gulf War all we did was destroy the Iraqi army in Kuwait. An army supported by the logistics of an innefective and long supply line from areas in Iraq. We bombed the hell out of Iraq in a groundbreaking fashion that had never been seen before in military history, then overran the Iraqi army in Kuwait like the Germans did to the French and then proceeded to wipe out a panicking, retreating army.

This time around we'll be invading a country on its hometurf. The mentality of the Iraqi leadership is different. The use of such weapons as stated in the article could really change the war.

Just remember, never fight as in the last war. The next one will be different. I'm still very confident that the US can destroy Iraq's fighting capabilities and crush its current regime. I don't think it will take place in a 90 day period. I don't think the war will happen soon just to please armchair generals.

Joesnuffy, maybe you want to enlist and go fight in the war, instead of ridiculing intelligent opinions.

You forget that we were cruising down the road to capture Baghdad itself in the last war when the POTUS stopped the war--not so much for reasons of projected casualties, but because it was obvious that we were going to topple Saddam's government if we weren't a lot more careful.

With regard to invading a country on its hometurf, we need to realize that more than twenty percent of Saddam's army has already gone AWOL. It would appear that they agree with my assessment of their defensive position.

Then, there's the anti-Bath Party folks. They want Saddam's head.

And with regard to the idea that we faced only a panicking, retreating army on the ground last time, I say that there is every reason to believe that this will happen again.

It's not merely that the Iraqis were overextended in the last conflict, but that they were badly outgunned. In the previous conflict, eight Marine Corps tanks destroyed more than forty top-of-the-line Iraqi tanks which were not panicking or retreating. We suffered zero casualties in that engagement.

The Turks have not seen this sort of thing firsthand. The Iraqis have seen it (which does account for the AWOLs).

Don't worry. We'll do it right. Iraq's weaponry is better, but so is ours. The thing which we have to be most wary about is counterattacks on American soil.