Old Weird Ward
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Friday, April 04, 2003
- - - - - Iraq - - - - -
From Kuwait to Baghdad's International Airport, a little matter of a lousy 300 miles (more or less), in less than two weeks. American and British combat dead under 100.
Compare that to any major conflict of the 20th Century. WW1, WW2, Korea, Viet Nam. Even Gulf War I wasn't so easy.
Of course, now we're looking at Baghdad itself. That is likely to be a large-scale pain in the posterior. House-to-house is ugly, nasty, dangerous, and bloody.
Looking at the 20th Century record of house-to-house, should Saddam's bully-boys choose to fight, I wouldn't be surprised by US/UK dead in the hundreds, or even in the thousands.
Or, if Saddam is really dead (which I doubt - he wouldn't risk his own precious skin), the whole business might collapse at any second.
Maybe.
But I'm not counting on it.
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