This article is in response to the mindless blather from TV "experts" (i.e. failed Colonels & pissed off ex-Generals) dissing the Rumsfeld/Franks war plan. Don't ya just love the experts pronouncing us out of supplies, besieged by geurilla attacks and bogged down in a "quagmire" (70s flashback ensues) while in reality we're advancing on Baghdad and encircling the city?

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''The U.S. advance on Baghdad is something that military historians and academics will pore over in great detail for many years to come,'' British Air Marshal Brian Burridge said Monday. ''They will examine the dexterity, the audacity and the sheer brilliance of how the U.S. put their plan into effect.''
Already, military analysts are comparing the advance to Gen. George S. Patton's brilliant attack across northern France in the autumn of 1944.
Instead of getting bogged down in pitched battles for cities along the road to Baghdad, U.S. forces raced directly to their main objective, pausing to fight only when given the chance to exact a heavy toll on the Iraqis. The speed of the assault and the intensity of the accompanying air campaign gave Iraqi units little opportunity to retreat and regroup; the U.S. advance quickly gobbled up the Iraqi rear.

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