The choice for Iraq's rag-tag army: be killed by the US or by Saddam

guardian ^ | 2/8/03

[prognostigaator]

Accordingly, if even semi-true---"all your base belong to us."

[ApesForEvolution]

As "Support Free Republic" genuflexes on almost every post: 'Interesting'.

[ApesForEvolution]

That would be "all your base are belong to us".

[tet68]

. Dozens of tanks have been concealed in trenches,

They've learned nothing.

[David1]

They've learned nothing. Good, that's just the way we want them.

[Maelstrom]

Should we make public our amnesty policy?

"Soldiers wearing nothing more than underwear and waving a piece of white cloth will be taken as POWs under our new War Amnesty policy. These people will be repatriated as soon as we are finished mopping up the bad guys."

(I'd sign it G.W. Bush, but I'm not sure he's approved it yet.)

[marron]

I believe the Regulars are safe. We will blow right past them, I doubt we even slow down for them.

The Republican Guard, on the other hand, may well be annihilated. They must stay well away from their equipment if they want to live.

[xzins]

They return with plastic containers full of paraffin.

???? Paraffin -- making candles? burning for heat?

[Once-Ler]

I hope the US military has thought this whole thing through.
When the Iraqi army finally surrenders 15 minutes after we anounce the war...will we have enough MREs(meals ready to eat) to feed Saddam's army? Does it make sense to build internment camps for a 24 hour war?

I think these are important questions and I want to know these issues have been accounted for.

God Bless America.

[Dog Gone]

I think the worst job in the entire world would be to be an Iraqi Army regular in the next few weeks.

These guys have little hope, either way.

[Bob]

I think these are important questions and I want to know these issues have been accounted for.

I think that you can be quite sure that the Pentagon is looking at all of these issues. Contingency planning seems to be a rather favorite pastime in the military.

[He Rides A White Horse]

At the moment it is hard to know which is the greater danger. "There are two groups in the Iraqi army," Abbas said.

"One is made up of soldiers like me. The other is the Republican Guard. The special guard will support and defend Saddam. The ordinary soldiers and many of the commanders will surrender."

I have a pretty good idea as to what 'soldiers like him' are..............guys grabbed off the street, put in a uniform, and told that if they don't hold their positions, their families in 'protective custody' back home won't be so protected.

I think every effort to spare these men should be made. Without endangering our forces of course.

I'm sure that these units have hard core "SS" officers dispersed among them to ensure that they do what Saddam wants them to. They'll have a choice, albeit a hard one. Perhaps they will choose to make a more profound case for themselves; Mukhabarat and Republican Guard trooper being marched ahead of them at bayonet point towards American lines.

[aculeus]

They return with plastic containers full of paraffin.

???? Paraffin -- making candles? burning for heat?

We say gasoline, Brits say petrol. We say kerosene, Brits say paraffin.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[fourdeuce82d]

Dozens of tanks have been concealed in trenches,

If they're in trenches, they aren't exposed. If they're not exposed, they can't shoot, and there's no point in firing up their engines. If they don't shoot, and they don't fire up their engines, they might not be noticed. If they're not noticed, there has got to be at least a .01% chance they won't be turned into smoking charnel houses, the interior of which are coated with a thin, greasy paste that once was their crew.

Sound to me like they've learned a lot. *grin*

[July 4th]

Oh man, are our bulldozers gonna have fun again.

[LibKill]

These poor boys are primed to surrender.

We should announce a surrender policy.

IRAQIS! Strip to your shorts, put your hands up and you will be hustled to safety, fed and clothed.

They will surrender by the millions.

[DeuceTraveler]

I hope we are able to tear into the Republican Guard right when the war starts. Surround them and do what we should have done the last time we had them by the throat.

[Marines981]

Or you could surrender now (hint, iraqis) or suffer the fate of the republican guard