[ArneFufkin]

Drama is no longer a tool. Saddam is dead. There's no level of additional personnel force, weaponry or resource that will be THE straw. These entrenched guys are dead if they surrender, they are war criminals. The Republican Guard needs to be buried post haste. Then we go to Baghdad, and we root the bastards out. There are more Iraqi citizens than Hussein thugs to occupy their homes. The numbers game will always win. Who's going to permit somebody to hold their neighbots hostage, who is going to support and protect that animal?

There's no way to sue for peace with the remaining crowd. They have blood on their hands. They need to be betrayed, isolated and killed. One by one if necessary. The lower grade guys will come forward to give up their superiors if they are relatively clean and they value their lives.

A reign of terror needs an enforcement sanction. I don't believe Saddam and his psycho brood are alive. They are on an autonomic response level now. Where's THEIR bold gambit? Where's THEIR ace in the hole?

You get one sucker punch at Frank Shamrock. That's it. It's not worth it.

They're waiting for Kofi and Jaques to pull some diamond out of their ass.

[the_doc]

I think that a dramatic stroke may still have a role. For example, there are a lot of ignorant civilians, including non-Fedayeen paramilitary types, who might profit from a little education--like a MOAB dropped on the south edge of Baghdad.

Some of the stupidly nationalistic civilians who are resisting us (or refusing to resist the Fedayeen to death) will throw down their arms (or, better still, turn them on the Fedayeen) if they see that their resistance to the coalition is even more surely fatal than siding against Saddam's thugs.