It's been reported that a lot of Iraqi soldiers were simply disarmed and sent home. I'm willing to rely much more on the Coalition than the Iraqis for information.
This is a War not a pantomine.
Sending enemy soldiers home if they surrender, while there is still a war on, is nothing more than complete incompetance, or Propaganda.
Look what happened in UM Qasr. They reported 2 days ago that they had taken the town, but there is fighting today, maybe this was from some of the soldiers they sent home.
I hope Tommy Franks can justify the deaths of allied soliders to their parents and take full responsibility for his incompetance, if he did truly send them home.......