[The Wizard]

The scale of the special forces’ incursions, and their relative freedom of movement in Iraq’s western and southern desert, indicates that, in practice, a vast area of Iraq has already been taken by allied troops without a shot.

Marshal Bush strikes again

[MadIvan]

Marshal Bush strikes again

Indeed. "Strategery" works every time it's tried.

Regards, Ivan

[deport]

On the ground, too, the war has begun. Several thousand American, British and Australian special forces troops are already on missions inside Iraq, and are carrying out operations on a scale unprecedented since the Second World War. Among them are more than 300 SAS troops whose mission is to identify Iraqi troop positions and confirm that targets chosen from satellite images for the first wave of attacks in the air bombardment are what they look like from the air.

24/7 is about to happen but not on the Estrada nomination....