[kach22i]

Originally posted by m21sniper
That is hardly the case.

We had a complete and total inability to either A) secure our own LOCs(Lines Of Communications, aka "Supply lines"), and B) we completely lacked the pesonnel to secure the over 50,000 suspected WMD and governmental sites that were critical to the overall objective. This does not even include the thousands of conventional weapons dumps that went unguarded after the war.

We all watched "Victory" being looted before our eyes on CNN. The truth is the post war looting did several times the damage to the Iraqi infrastructure than the shooting part of it did.


First, thanx for the kind word, but, you should really read the books Cobra II and Thunder run.

The actual fight to, and into, Baghdad, was an utter blood bath. It was only because of the complete tactical dominance and unparalled protection levels of the US Army Heavy forces that we did not suffer many times more casualties.

The Iraqis however, were slaughtered at a wholesale pace.


The war was lost before the first shot was fired due to insufficient force levels and NO(as opposed to Poor) post-war plan.


I highly reccomend you read the book Cobra II by ret. General Bernard E. Trainor.

It's a real eye opener.

This is good stuff, you could write this kind of thing all day and I would read it.