In article ,
Charles Gray wrote:

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.

I made some fairly optimistic predictions on the order of the ground
campaign taking as little as six weeks, and people thought that was just
silly...

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