[mhking]

Saddle up!

[RoseofTexas]

Is this story the latest or the same story from last week? If it's last week's story, I heard it was a false report. Hmmm?

[tutstar]

I pray for our troops!

[BlessedBeGod]

One commander says he has 27 tanks; only 6 work.

Gee, didn't the French send replacement parts for the tanks, too? They're slipping.

[SamAdams76]

I have a feeling I'm going to be getting very little sleep this week. As luck would have it, I have a business convention next week in Orlando - I sure hope my hotel has FoxNews or I'm going to be majorly bummed out.

[Mixer]

This and the reports that a top ranking Kurdish ally of Saddam surrending leaves little hope for Saddam and anyone willing to tough it out. I always hoped that there would be low casualties if we did have to go in and these reports prove that there will be low resitance and our troops will have the area cleared in no time. Could this end up being easier then ousting the Talibums?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/866180/posts

[teletech]

These Iraqi soldiers are the smart ones. They will be treated fairly. I hope they ALL surrender. Why should they be killed to protect a madman!?

[Cvengr]

Everyone from the highest commanders to the lowest privates that remain are openly discussing plans to surrender en masse the moment war starts.

I see the French have influenced the Iraqis to stand alongside their strategic posture.

[PJ-Comix]

One commander says he has 27 tanks; only 6 work.

No wonder Iraqi Army morale is low. To sit in an Iraqi tank is an invitation to be fried alive.

[VRWC_minion]

This is going to make things much more dangerous,

[sweetliberty]

"Many members of the Iraqi regular army are already coming across to surrender"

Maybe they did learn something from the French.

[PoisedWoman]

This is a report from Turkey? Iraqis are going there to surrender? Or, where exactly might the "northern front" be?

It's probably true that most Iraqis can hardly wait to give up, but these prewar surrenders could also be attempt to decrease adrenaline in US troops.

[michigander]

Can't be true. See...

Saddam: We'll Fight US Anywhere in the World

They're trying to lull us into a false sense of security.

[Patriot1998]

I just heard that the forces are telling the Iraqi troops to go back because the war hasn't started yet!

[ewing]

Saddam has pulled 120,000 troops around Baghdad in 3 rings, looks like he is giving the rest of the country up.

[FreeTheHostages]

ROFL.

At least the Iraqis, unlike the French, had the common decency to wait until the eve of war before surrendering.

[oceanview]

This is all well and good, but its what happens with the WMDs and the missiles that is the key to this war, not what happens to a couple of front line miscreants who can't get a tank started. Its the WMDs and the missiles that can really hurt us.

[gitmo]

Offsides. 10 yard penalty.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Many members of the Iraqi regular army are already coming across to surrender.

I see the French military training worked very well.

[ApesForEvolution]

Bush stated today from the Azores that France (aka 'toilet truffles') "showed/played its cards (and the UN's as well)".