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...council sent copies of the resolution it passed last week, which expressed "its hope for rapid Allied success in fulfilling the United Nations' mandate with a minimum of civilian, American and Allied casualties," to state and federal lawmakers...
...completed in five days. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saddam's expectation of victory showed he was "living in another world," and predicted his troops would yield within three or four weeks. While few others were daring (or imprudent) enough to offer a precise timetable, many military and civilian officials described the potential conflict as lopsided and brief. British Defense Minister Tom King told the House of Commons in December, "It will be short, sharp and quick, and the casualties on the allied side will be kept to a minimum...
Saddam can seek shelter in a palace bunker some 40 miles out of Baghdad, but allied forces are unlikely to find him there. During wartime, the Iraqi leader makes a habit of hiding in civilian areas. A Shi'ite opposition leader recalls that his cousin's family was rousted by soldiers at dawn several years ago. The group was sent to Baghdad's Al Rasheed Hotel for the next 24 hours before being permitted to return home. Only then did government officials tell the family that Saddam had spent the previous evening in its quarters. In thanks for the coerced...
...through the first three weeks of actual war, might pile up quickly, though probably nowhere near as high as Saddam Hussein's propagandists suggest. But how many soldiers' deaths are likely if the attack begins next week, the week after, a month later, two months later? How many Iraqi civilians might die in the meantime from U.S. bombing? What number of casualties, and over how long a period, can the U.S. stand without a disastrous loss in public support for the war? Conversely, how many more Iraqi civilian deaths, real or alleged, can the Arab world witness without an almost...
Already the Saddam government is daily escorting foreign journalists to bombed-out homes, schools and the like, scenes that are running almost nightly on American TV. The allies insist they are going out of their way to avoid civilian targets, and the record bears them out. Baghdad's own figures on civilian casualties, while hopelessly confusing, are remarkably low, given the length and intensity of the bombing. But there is no way to entirely avoid the killing of civilians, and Saddam seems to be trying to provoke more by putting military installations among them -- placing antiaircraft guns...