Fighting Street to Street

The New York Times ^ | 09/27/2002 | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

[Texasforever]

and friendly fire casualties are not the things that assure the political welfare of an administration -

First it would not be "friendly fire" and second, you are assuming stiff resistance on the part of the Iraqi military and third you are also assuming that CNN will even be there.

[spodefly]

If we had the will to start the war in Iraq like described in the story, it would be a very short war ... unfortunately, Germany would totally hate us.

[Steely Tom]

"The Americans are good at bombing," one Iraqi official mused. "But some day, they will have to come to the ground. And then we'll be waiting. Every Iraqi has a gun in his house, often a Kalashnikov. And every Iraqi has experience in fighting. So let's see how the Americans do when they're fighting in our streets."

Let them hide in their churches, hospitals and schools. Let them wait for us to come into their wretched cities. While they're waiting for us to commit suicide, you know what we'll be doing?

We'll be drilling for oil in Kurd territories in the north, building pipelines to get the oil out (maybe into former Soviet republics to the north). We'll be setting up airbases to guard our new oil fields, with powerful radars, Patriot missle batteries, and maybe some surprising new theater defenses that Saddam hasn't even dreamed of.

And we'll be waiting for Saddamn's stupid hordes of lemmings to come kick us out. CNN will have lots of time to set up their cameras.

(steely)

[metesky]

Stop soiling your diaper in public. It's unseemly.

[Orual]

To understand why an invasion of Iraq may not be the cakewalk that the White House expects...

You're so out of touch, Nicky, the cakewalk was a dance that was introduced around 1890. Think you should adjust your clock to real time and try to envision a victory dance.

See #15 for the appropriate music.

[dighton]

Cruel mayhem alert.

[tm22721]

This time there won't be a UN or Clinton to nix the C-130 gunships as in Mogadishu. Those gatling guns will tear some new Iraqi a**holes.

BUMP

[SauronOfMordor]

Saddam's mighty legions and his Praetorian Guard will sit around the city playing pinochle by candlelight till the bottled water and camel Spam runs out. Agents provocateurs will be working via radio, pamphlets and rewards to undermine morale among the populace and provoke mass defections of Saddam's home defense troops.

Once we've occupied the oil fields, and start pumping oil and pocketing the profits, the cities become irrelevant.

We just provide that any women and children who want to leave may do so, and will be well cared for. Set up camps outside the city cooking large quantities of spicy food, and let the aroma empty the cities

[epow]

New York liberalatti

Liberalatti. The perfect term for NYC eliists who believe the entire USA hangs breathlessly on every word they think and say. I like it, can I use the term or do you have a copyright on it?

[dennisw]

You can use it for no charge. I dreamt it up and doing a search on google finds no hits for this word. IOW it does not exist in hyper-space.

[thescourged1]

Right on target.
Siege has worked for thousands of years. They'll get hungry eventually.