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ewing: And Tikrit defended by Saddams younger son Qusay doesn't look like it will put up much of a fight either.

You know, Saddam doing this is pretty shrewd.

The dregs of his army are deployed. He sent them to the desert with food for a few weeks, knowing the war will start by then. This means he conserved all of their food to give out the reported five-month ration to all the residents of Baghdad.

Capturing them and caring for them represents more manpower, transportation, shelter and food is required along some fairly long allied supply lines in a rough climate. No matter how you slice it, Saddam will slow us a little this way and require us to assume a greater logistics burden.

Saddam is doing this so he doesn't have to feed them and to slow us down by having to take these poorly equipped hungry soldiers off his hands.

I suppose we'll have to do the humanitarian thing and let them surrender to us. The only alternative would be for us to run away from them if they tried to surrender to force us to take care of them.

Even the French might start laughing if our soldiers started running away from enemy troops trying to surrender to them. I guess we're forced to accept their surrender.

Giving your troops away to slow down the enemy is pretty French. I guess Saddam has hung around with Jacques for too long.