From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Bushwhackers' commitment to holding the Iraqi elections as scheduled now seems in the same general ball-park as Hitler's order (during the last phases of WW2) that German troops never retreat. Obviously, there are major differences, but in both cases there's an effort to make symbolic commitments in hopes that somehow sticking to one's guns will solve the problem.
As I recall, toward the end of the Battle of Stalingrad German commanding general Friedrich Paulus spent hours just lying on his bed staring at the wall. I wonder what the morale of US commanders in Baghdad is these days.
Carl
