[DoughtyOne]

We're fifty miles from Baghdad, and the couch potatoes are falling appart. Good Lord, we only started this one week ago.

[Red Dog #1]

Could you imagine all these Chicken Littles having to get through WW II? They would have given up all hope by the December 20th and urged Roosevelt to capitulate before we were over run by the Vichy French (I almost said Germans but I just can’t pass up a cheap shot at the French).

[WRhine]

I think Rummy has been right on this. This blitzing run towards Baghdad has caught Saddam & Co. off guard. Maybe this is why our forces have been able to cross just about every bridge in Iraq safely. Every strategy has its downside but reinforcements are on the way and casualties to date have been extraordinarily low. What's transpired to date is nothing short of SUCCESS.

[Archangelsk]

We're fifty miles from Baghdad, and the couch potatoes are falling appart. Good Lord, we only started this one week ago.

On the other hand, we knew that resistance was going to be light in the south and that the bulk of Iraqi defense was going to be closer to Saddam's power base. What we didn't account for was the 30K fedayeen - who are essentially Saddam's Special Forces - doing what SF traditionally does: disrupt the lines of communication.

Yes, we will win, but it will be longer and more costly than we thought.