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To: lavaroise
I would assume from this that Sadaam has placed most of his chem and bio weapons in the cities. These will have to be taken out, to protect Israel and US forces in the countryside. Air superiority does not help in urban warfare. It's man against man and down and dirty. This man (Sadaam) is evil but not stupid. Expect tactics like this to be employed.
17 posted on 08/08/2002 4:20:32 AM PDT by meenie
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To: meenie
I would assume from this that Sadaam has placed most of his chem and bio weapons in the cities. These will have to be taken out, to protect Israel and US forces in the countryside. Air superiority does not help in urban warfare. It's man against man and down and dirty. This man (Sadaam) is evil but not stupid. Expect tactics like this to be employed.

What a crock.

You have no notion of what it takes to support 5 million people indefinitely, evidently.
If this is true waiting is the assured counter-response.

Any attempt at "urban" agriculture can be surgically curtailed.
Water, medical supplies, food, heat, power, communications can all be surgically eliminated one by one.

Saddam has reintroduced the classic Muslim weapon of choice: a long term siege. To his detriment.

Urban house to house combat is not even on the radar screen under those circumstances.

58 posted on 08/08/2002 9:22:04 AM PDT by Publius6961
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