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Hey, our president is fantasizing, by gawd so can the rest of us.  So 
here goes. ;)

The question in most minds tonight is 'What is Saddam going to do?'.  
Well if I were he, and had taken the stance he has I would look for a way 
to stay alive AND fighting.  Sounds impossible against such force as is 
aligned against the ass, but not completely hopeless.

First he is a leader of the Bathist Party, a multinational group of 
nationalist arabs.  Syria is Bathist controlled.  Note that in THIS Iraq 
war, unlike the first, Syria is NOT an ally.  So, there is the 
possibility that it may hold usefulness for the Hussein clan.

Hussein has at the most conservative estimates 3-4 billion dollars salted 
away, and there is no indication that the U.S. has been successful in 
finding and tieing it up.  

Now lets say Hussein pulls in all his most loyal troops into and around 
Baghdad and Tikrit.  While to the south he mines the roads and bridges, 
blows the oil wells and then orders his regular army to surrender(which 
most concede is a forgone conclusion anyway), but he orders them to do it 
in such places and numbers as will actually impede the US forces in their 
headlong rush to Baghdad.  This is a highly probable manuever.  Now Us 
forces finally arrive at the gates and are greated by the last of the 
truly loyal Royal Guards, well ensconched in homes, schools hospitals and 
all other places on the publicized 'no hit' list by the US.

US troops will have to fight door to door and when about one third in 
control and concentrated in a small area, the city; they will be suddenly 
hit with bio-chem weapons in huge amounts.  Chaos, massive civilian 
deaths and even with protection a number of US deaths.  The city goes 
nuts, the US cannot control both the 3-4 million citizens and fight the 
remaining Iraqi holdouts.  The media has a field day, the world comes un-
glued and condemnation of the US turns to actual reaction in the form of 
tariffs, and other economic tools.  American businesses abroad become 
targets for anyone with any grudge at all against America.

Amid all this turmoil, Hussein and sons escape quitly across the Syrian 
border, where they have already secretly stockpiled weapons and bio-
chems.  A small elite corp of Royal Guards make it as well.

He remains underground for days, weeks perhaps a few months.  then 
suddenly more and more guerilla action is noticed in Iraq, destabilizing 
further the country.  The US announces tht Saddam is in the vicinity, 
probably Syria.  What can the US do?  Damn little, for the world will not 
sit by idly this time and allow the US to unilaterally take on Syria.

What is more cogent is that the US forces will be so thinned out by 
Afghanistan, Korea, and Iraq ( remember that the Kurds, the shiites and 
the al Qaida types will all be making war upon the US or each other as 
well as Turkey.

Result?  Hussein becomes the main supplier for the regions terrorists, a 
thing he was not before, and also becomes the tribal war lord for the 
worlds nationalist arabs.

Fantasy? Perhaps, but not impossible, and there is a good chance at least 
some of this will come to pass.

If such does happen, I hope with every fiber in my being that the 
American public remembers just who the son of a bitches were who screwed 
this operation up so badly are.

Monte