[prognostigaator]

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

[ApesForEvolution]

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

[tet68]

. Dozens of tanks have been concealed in trenches,

They've learned nothing.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Marines981]

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

[Happy2BMe]

I had a good friend bivouaced inside Iraq for a total of six months - prior to (yep - prior to), during, and after Desert Storm.

Our B52 bombing raids pulverized and demoralized the Iraqi lines so bad that when they began surrendering (by the thousands) their hands were shaking so bad that even for a couple of days after surrender, they couldn't hold a cup of water.

Trust me, the remaining Iraqis recall this vividly - and want to surrender in the worst way imaginable.

This will be a tough call, and it all depends on whether or not the Iraqis even hint at using chems on us.

If not, then we may just hit 800 strategic targets and take out the majority of their comm. Once that is done, that will be a major signal to "RUN!!" for those among the Iraqi ranks wanting to live.

They will surrender by the TENS OF THOUSANDs (if given the chance).

The Iraqi officers are beating the enlisted troops - the surest sign mutiny is but a breath away.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The special guard will support and defend Saddam. The ordinary soldiers and many of the commanders will surrender."

Desert Storm, second verse, much like the first. However, I suspect that many will surrender as soon as the bombs start falling instead of waiting for weeks in the trenches.

Hint to the ordinary soldiers: stay as far away from the tanks, artillery, rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft as possible and keep your head low and you will be warm and fed in a U.S. POW camp within days.

[ellery]

This is a brave man, as are all Iraqis who are trying to get the word out -- in the face of Saddam's torture and death -- that they WANT us to attack. Bravo -- with providence, we'll free you soon.

[fourdeuce82d]

Posted a macho bit earlier- "We-all's gonna blow the cr@p out'a all them-there Iraqians..."

Snooping around here and there, I came across stories about Iraquis surrendering...and kissing the boots of our troops.

Saw some video where some marine was trying to lift the guy up, telling him he didn't have to do that to surrender.

I wonder which has stuck in the minds of the Iraqi grunt troops more- the idea that we'll kill them, or that their "enemy" will treat them better than their own chain of command?

I'm all for pounding the ever-loving $hite out of the Republican Guard, the Mokhabarat, etc.- hope we keep in mind that a lot of the guys in uniform are, in effect, human shields for SH.

I dunno...post in hairy chested, tough guy anger...reconsider at leisure.

[CWOJackson]

There are many veterans of the last Gulf War in Saddam's Army. Most of them will remember the months that they were half starved, in sand bunkers being blasted by the U.S. Air Force, knowing they could no run or be killed by their own officers. How they were expected to commit suicide on the battlefield for Saddam with hardly any chance of inflicting damage on our forces.

These veterans also remember how many of them, in large formations, marched themselves into the welcome captivity of U.S. POW camps; often without guard, merely being given food, water and pointed in the right direction by U.S. troops.

Those same people will remember how well they were treated at the POW camps. They also remember how that when they got home Saddam was still in power, living like a king while they suffered.

As with most armies, these veterans will remember the lessons from the last war and teach them to the younger troops alongside them.

[ToTheStars]

if George Bush wants to give us freedom then we will welcome it."

I'm really going to enjoy seeing these folks liberated!