Mideast Ground War Begins
I guess our President considers dumb humans cheaper than smart bombs. Surely one of his advisers was smart enough to tell him that a ground war was the move Saddam Hussein most wanted. By withstanding a full-out war with the combined forces of the West, Hussein can consider himself the most successful Arab military leader of the past 50 years.
All Hussein has to do is outlast an impatient and foolish President Bush. Hussein has already seen his modernized Iraq crumble, but now will get to see Americans and the allies suffer real losses in revenge.
If only 100 Americans are killed, it will not be worth the cost. What if 1,000 die? Or 10,000? We should have continued the air war that produced virtually no allied casualties.
GARY DAVIS, Culver City
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