[Pilsner]

We're not refighting World War II.

If there is a war it won't look like the European Theatre, but it may look like the Pacific. Think of the U.S. Military "island hopping" across Iraq, and whenever possible leaving Iraqi Army, the Republican Guard, the Special Republican Guard and the Deluxe Republican Guard (if Saddam gets around to establishing one) dug in where ever they happen to be, while coalition forces sieze airbases and ground corridors. There may be a few unfortuante Tarawas where the Iraqi's defend something we have to take on the ground, but most of their troops who survive the war will have never been within a days march of any of our ground forces.

[Man of the Right]

I agree, though nobody's going to fight like the Japanese. The urban pockets will lack supplies or hope. Resistance will end when Saddam flees, or the pockets are overcome by a combo of the Iraqi army and people (Romania '89). He'll escape rather than die because he'll calculate he can regain power. As fast as the political environment changes in the Mideast, he may be right. He does have physical courage, evidenced by his participation in an assassination attempt against Kassem.