[Humbug]

"cant believe that these idiots dont know that there only hope for making this difficult is to bunker down in Baghdad??"

Maybe the bombing on their positions around Baghdad was starting to have devestating effects on them, or at least was definitely getting a little too close for comfort, and so they figured they'd rather try to do something, no matter how desperate a move it might seem, rather than just sitting around and wondering whether the next bombing raid would be the one that finally killed them all off.

If this is what is happening, then obviously it's great news for us and would indicate that the end game is in sight.

[Republic]

It just seems natural that the evil leaders in Iraq would move at least one large contigent out-hoping our ground troops backtrack to engage them....and what a perfect time to release chemical weapons.

[Toskrin]

I agree. The aerial assaults have tremendous psychological impact. We haven't really engaged any RG units ouselves - all of them have come to us, with the same result each time.

Those RG units are taking a pounding from the air, and have no one to fight back with. They scream at their commanders - "Why aren't we doing anything?" So they do what any reasonable person standing in a field of falling bombs does - they move. Only it is the wrong thing to do. They figure anything is better than getting slowly destroyed by bombs. Wrong again.