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The advance to Karbala has probably outrun the supply line "tail."

I've been suprised that none of the breifers have made this point this simply. It can be taken as a sign of unexpected success, not failure that the spear-point moved so fast.

In addition to success on the battlefield, there might be more to our rapid run to the outskirts of Baghdad.........I think that first night, when we hit Baghdad/Saddam's bunker, we scared their Generals. They and our guys began to wonder how messy things might be or get if there was a civilian uprising in Baghdad wihtout our troops there. So, we raced northward, ignoring most of the standards in place during "typical" troop movements, in order to protect what could have been a really big mess in Baghdad.

Then Saddam emerged and either killed or scared the $hit out of those Generals that were conferring with our side and an interesting dilemma occured.....

Iraqis, ordered by Saddam's thugs began to fight (they had guns to their heads, held there by Fedayeens(sp)) and we had a bit of a mess on our hands that we could not really tell the world about, since, if we did, we potentially put our own guys at risk by even "suggesting" they had outrun their supply line......

It was all either a master stroke of genius by Saddam or pure luck. Either way, we did this for a reason, one which we cannot disclose at this time. It will all come out in the wash and the damn media will look like fools for it......Does this scenario sound realistic?