[justa-hairyape]

Hiding behind civilians and children. How very brave they are. They nust make Allah proud !

[nevergore]

Oh great strategy...group them all in one spot!
This is the follow-up to his first strategy in '92? Engage us on the open desert when we had air superiority....
Bwahahahaha....
NeverGore :^)

[Democrap]

No food, No water, No power. Going to be real fun after a month or two in Bagdad.

democrap

[Glenn]

The goal isn't Baghdad. The goal is Saddam. Unless he intends to bed down with the unwashed, he's vulnerable.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Saddam's strategy appears to center on drawing U.S. forces into Baghdad and other cities, where his equipment and troops would be surrounded by civilians and less exposed to United States warplanes...

No problem Omego. =] The countryside is the key to victory anyway. Like MacArthur said, "Hit'em where they 'aint.' If they want to surrender their oil fields, harbors, roads, and airports without a fight, so much the better. LOL. Once the oil fields, etc. are secure, we can be patient.

Now for the cities. First we tell the world he is a coward, telling his once proud army to hide behind women and children. Second, we drop leaflets warning civilians that they have 24 hours or 48 hours [or so] to clear out of the cities, and that food and shelter will be provided to them at a certain point. Third, when Saddam forces his women and children to remain near the soldiers [assuming he is that determined], we have three choices....

1. We invite the Turks to take and KEEP the cities while we secure the countryside, the oil, the roads, and the airports. [Or let the Turks have it all.]

2. We let the Iraqis sit in the cities under seige, and encourage revolt from within. Once the Kurds get rolling they can take the cites, one after another, piecemeal.

3. We reluctantly bomb and attack our targets, having at least tried to clear out the women and children, only to have the cowards hold them by force.

I prefer options 1 and 2, a combination of the two. We can also plan surgical strikes.

Truth is, without roads, airports, harbors, and oil, what strategic use is a city anyway? Nadda. Zip. Only good as a base for hit-and-run sorties. And they would be forced to do that, because time would be on our side. And we can dig in WW1 style like no one else in the world.

[The Great Satan]

We aren't going to invade Iraq. Way too dangerous until we've had much longer to prepare our civil defenses, unfortunately. Bush is going to present the evidence that Saddam authored 9/11, then demand that the Iraqis hand him over, like the Serbs handed over Milosevic. At that point, Saddam's threat will still be real, but his blackmail gambit will have failed. Bush is, as he reminded us the other day, a very patient man: once the evidence is layed on the table, time will not be on Saddam's side.

Feel free to bookmark this thread and check back in a few months to see how my prediction fairs. I am very confident.

[Thumper1960]

Saddam's "Mother of all battles" redux.

I used to wonder why the military had trained so frequently in the past few years for urban warfare, much to the chagrin of tin-foils who decided it was for use against American citizens. Perhaps, the military chiefs knew something?

[2sheep]

>Saddam plans urban campaign if U.S. attacks - LA Times

This title could be read another way.  I expected it to mean that Saddam plans a chem/bio-war campaign against U.S. cities if the U.S. attacks Iraq.

[Dallas]

Flashback, if you will.........LOL

When CNN's Peter Arnett reported on the seventh day of Desert Storm that an infant formula plant in the Abu Ghraib suburb of Baghdad had been bombed, Washington was categorical in its dismissal. "It is not an infant formula factory," Gen. Colin Powell said, "... It was a biological weapons facility, of that we are sure. ..."

[Stallone]

This strategy is disguised propaganda to appeal to Socialists around the world including America's own enemy within, the Democrats and the major media.

By making the political costs of war high (innocent civilians being killed, including little babies), they are hoping America will be prevented internally from upsetting the Liberal bleeding hearts. Defeat yourself, as it were.

Brilliant actually, exploiting the stupidity of the powerful Left-Wing in America, our Traitors Within.

[Destructor]

All we have to do is hit the bastards with massive airstrikes on Friday morning when they have their heads in the sand bowing towards Mecca! If we did that Gulf War II would be over even quicker than the first one!

[kjam22]

We are in desperate need of a General Sherman. Someone who will march through the country side, through the cities, ripping up and burning everything in site. I'm not sure our leaders today know what war is.

[unixfox]

Saddam's strategy appears to center on drawing U.S. forces into Baghdad and other cities, where his equipment and troops would be surrounded by civilians...

If the civilians of Baghdad and other cities are stupid enough to stick around they deserve to get blown away. Besides, they are the ones that let him stay in control.

[Myrddin]

Saddam is going to put all his troops into a very densely populated civilian area. It would be a damn shame if his troops made an error with a contagious bioweapon. It would move like wildfire. The whole city would have to be isolated and quarantined. Possibly even incinerated to keep it from spreading.

[Publius6961]

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein plans to avoid open desert fighting and mass his forces in major cities in case of a U.S. invasion, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.

If only this were true!

5 million people at a crack?
Does anyone else see the golden opportunity here for the perfect minimum-loss campaign for the good guys?

hint: groceries do not grow in the grocery store.

[ZULU]

Real good at hinding behind women and children and hospitals, aren't they?

[AmericanCompatriot]

This will be perfect for our press!!! They can exploit the VULGUR and SAVAGE actions of our military and ask the U.N. to press for war crimes!!!

If this war doesn't go right, Western Civilization is done for.

[Optimist]

Saddam warns U.S. attack will fail
MSNBC.Com ^ | 8/8/2002 | NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES

Posted on 08/08/2002 12:32 PM Central by Bobby777

Iraqi militiamen wearing belts of explosives and holding AK-47 assault rifles stand at attention next to a picture of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with his sons Uday and Qussay during a military parade in Baghdad on Thursday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 8 — Amid indications that Saddam Hussein wants to battle a U.S. invasion force in the streets of Iraq’s major cities rather than the open desert, the Iraqi leader warned Thursday that “disgraceful failure” awaited any army intent on removing him from power. The defiant tone, while not unusual, was notable given that U.S. officials are openly weighing a military strike against Saddam for allegedly building weapons of mass destruction.

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Let me see if I've got this right ... if the U.S. attacks, they'll blow themselves up? ... hmmmm ... check out the guys in the middle ...

1 posted on 8/8/02 12:32 PM Central by Bobby777

[finnman69]

Look at the goobers they are planning on using to defend themselves with. I love the explosive guys. Maybe they will blow themselves up before we get there.

We are supposed to be scare dof this??????

[SunkenCiv]

From 2002 -- in retrospect, looks like the only urban campaign (besides the foreign street thugs in Iraq) was carried out by Cindy Sheehan, MoveOn, A.N.S.W.E.R., and the two consecutive losing campaigns by the DNC.