Gautam, I don't have the time to adress this in full (I just got a teaching job on the side, and its proving more challenging than I had anticipated), but let me ask you this: what do you think would have happened if the Iraqi army proved to HAVE some spine, and decided to turn their cities into fortresses and engage Allied troops at every turn, and contest every shopfront, every street intersection? While I don't neccessarily want to denigrate the achievements of our troops in the field, but a big part of our success, and why casualties during the actual offensive were so low, is in a certain extent because the Iraqis chose not to challenge us so stiffly, and a large segment of their army abandoned their duty.
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