In new United States war plans, thousands of helicopter-borne troops and paratroopers would be flown deep into Iraq to seize oilfields, dams and banned weapons, and advance as far as Baghdad on day one of fighting, according to Pentagon officials. President George Bush met his top field commander, General Tommy Franks, on Thursday to review plans quite unlike those used in the last Gulf war. That began with weeks of aerial bombardment, but the US suspicion that Saddam Hussein will try to wreck his country rather than surrender dictates that ground troops would be involved in the fighting on the...