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The coalition strategy regarding Baghdad seems logical. We don't want to slug it out with fixed bayonets in hand-to-hand combat with the Republican Guard--no need to. We also don't want to amass a huge concentration of ground forces within range of chemical weapons. So, we bomb them to hell, each day and night. If the Guard moves against us, they become very visible, and vulnerable, as we bomb them to oblivion. If they retreat back to the city, we bomb them to oblivion. The Guard can continue sit where it is and be taken apart, bit by bit. The Guard is in a very tight--with no supply lines-- and deteriorating spot. No matter what they do, they are doomed.

In virtually every discussion about this war there is always the warning about hand to hand in baggeddead. Why? I would not send troops into the city. Capturing and purging the entire country except for baggeddead would be my plan. In fact, I would even start the process of establishing a new government and broadcasting it over tv as soon as I could. Cleaned up southern and norther regions with plenty of photo ops showing self government of cities and new supplies of food and water would be broadcast every minute. I would have northern and southern interests start marking out their federal states and inviting the citizens of the central region to come and be a part of the new government as soon as they could.