[wideawake]

Reuters - the London bureau of the Iraqi State News Service.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Bump to MadIvan - criticism here of the tactics in Basra. I have a question - are there any plans to bring more troops to help take that city? Praying there are!

[gov_bean_ counter]

British forces have besieged Basra, a city of 1.5 million people.

Some conclude that Basra will fall only if Saddam is toppled in Baghdad. Many even have their doubts about that.

So we get "many" out of a sample size of ? in a city of 1.5 million.

[Mister Magoo]

They could take Basra at any time. They are simply proceeding methodically to minimize casualties.

[oyez]

. "Saddam will come back."

It stands to reason that if Saddam is Purina Worm Chow those in charge of House Hussein will have kept his death a secret in order to keep the fear of Saddam alive. The location of Saddam's remains may be the must guarded secret on the planet.

[Cicero]

Funny how Reuters manages to put an anti-American spin even on Saddam's torturing and murdering his own people.

And I love it when they take a random Iraqi on the street and consult him about the difficulties of urban warfare. From the sound of it, that guy probably knows less about military tactics than Susan Sarandon.

[Liberals are Evil Socialists!]

Maybe we should ask the brits why not.