On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:02:04 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
(Jack Linthicum) wrote:



We expected a war from March to way past December?

No, we expected the actual war to last a few months, and continued
operations to last for years.


I don't think anyone expected such a collapse-- most serious
predictoins I read expected a fairly easy field war, followed by some
ugly city fighting, as Saddam tried to suck the U.S. into a Berlin
style slugfest.