He commanded a 7th Cavcompany in Vietnam and he drove the 24thID right up the Republican Guards ass from Bazra and killed the crap out of them. Shwarzkopf should of let him keep going to Baghdad.
His opinion is that we will win but to win the battle of Baghdad it will cost 3000 casualties. That doesn't include door to door in Baghdad. I believe he's got it right.
I say we send another round of leaflets. We tell the Republican Guard, all 30-36,000 that are 30 miles from Baghdad, that this is their LAST CHANCE. If they do not capitulate, they will face utter annihilation.
We should then carpet bag B-1 bomb the entire Republican Guard, while they're in the desert. We need to exterminate them like a ant's nest that is in our house. And if they scurry back to Baghdad we need to keep bombing every one of them, until the whole nest is dead. If we allow any of them to live, we will end up having to fight them in door to door fighting at Baghdad.
If we take this tactic, we risk the hatred of everyone against us, but it will have the same type of effect as the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Those left in Baghdad will think twice about continuing to confront us. Many more will surrender.
Then I think we should continue surgical strikes and cut off Baghdad from the rest of the country. Keep a noose around their neck and close in litttle by little until they choke or give up. Time is on our side in this kind of waiting game. If that fails, we will at least have weakened them considerably, and then we go in.
I'm sorry to have to use such stark terms, but I think we are to the point of no return in this war. Today, our Apaches turned back, due to heavy artillery fire and were unable to make any significant gains. We must do what must be done, for the greater good of all.