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2003-03-20 Iraq

US troops mount blitz to surround Iraqi port: Kuwaiti radio

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Posted by Steve 2003-03-20 11:49 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Heard it the same time you did, Steve. Also rumors of oil wells being torched.

If Saddam was smart, he wouldn't torch the wells and create a bigger rebuilding job for US firms. Of course, if he was smart, then he'd have been out of town ere this...

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-20 09:47:34|| 2003-03-20 09:47:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Saddam doesn't care. The 20 million Iraqis exist only to serve him in his mind. What does he care what happens to them after he's gone?

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-20 10:26:09|| 2003-03-20 10:26:09|| Front Page Top

#3 saddam (assuming he wasnt killed last night) does not accept that he will be gone. He thinks he can still draw US into a quagmire, and when that happens we'll go home (in which case he WILL have triumphed)since vietman, the most troops we have lost in war and won was about 200 in GW1 - in beirut we lost more than that and left - based purely on past statistics it would seem the magic number is killing at least 300 US troops - we here may know things are different now, but I dont think Saddam knows. The oil well stuff is part of that.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-03-20 10:36:16|| 2003-03-20 10:36:16|| Front Page Top

#4 It only took--what? 18?--for us to abandon Somalia. I think GWB has a little more backbone than Clinton did, however.

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-20 10:53:38|| 2003-03-20 10:53:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Dar - i dont recall Republicans screaming for us to stay in somalia, nor do irecall dems calling for us to stay in Beirut in '84. Whats different now is our national realization of the strategic environment.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-03-20 15:38:08|| 2003-03-20 15:38:08|| Front Page Top

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