Thursday, March 27, 2003

OK. I lost. Next time I want to be the South at Gettysburg, would someone please tell me to go outside and play instead. I had most of my artillery on top of Cemtery Hill until the afternoon of day two. The Northern artillery was incessant. I got surrounded and decided to go drink beer and watch the Iraqi news coverage. Artillery makes all the difference. It whithers you down. Probably the same way our air power is going to wither down all the Iraqi troops outside of Baghdad. This is not Vietnam. There are no trees. But do we need to actually enter the city? Why not just establish a permieter around Baghdad, rebuild the rest of the country, and wait for Baghdad to decide they've had enough? We could deliver food, water and medicine to the edge of the city under truce flags for years. Why inflict the pain of an attack on a city of 5 million? I vote for a siege while supplying them with basic necessities. 11:24:44 PM

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