[Pan_Yans Wife]

I too, wonder why they would expose themselves so easily as sitting ducks. Saddam may be crazy, but he isn't stupid. Do you think the head of the command and control is so damaged, that the generals thought we would fight them in hand-to-hand combat? Do you really think there is a danger of chemical weapons left in Baghdad?

[brewcrew]

Saddam may be crazy, but he isn't stupid.

You're assuming that he's still calling the shots....

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I too, wonder why they would expose themselves so easily as sitting ducks. Saddam may be crazy, but he isn't stupid.

Sometimes being dead, or critically injured, can impair your judgment.

[wideawake]

see my post 56. what do you think?

[Shermy]

Do you think the head of the command and control is so damaged, that the generals thought we would fight them in hand-to-hand combat?

I've seen Jazeera clips. there's a program on cable with news clips from various Arab stations. They are blasting the line from CNN that there are "great" victories. One popular myth repeated is the old farmer who shot down a helicopter with an old rifle.

I imagine the Arab radio says much the same. This prideful reporting might be encouraging wild and stupid resistance.

I doubt BBC or VOA is doing anything to counter the propaganda.

[Calpernia]

yes

[Flint]

What do you think the chances are that all of those trucks were filled with women and children and that the next TV footage the A-rabs are shown is their dead bodies. Along with some kind of drivel about the great sodaminsane was only trying to sheild his women and children from those Yankee infidels. That the Yankees had been told that all that was in the trucks were non-combatants and that they are so blood thirsty that they bombed them anyway?