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...Cruising at 25 m.p.h., the patrol shredded the enemy--killing perhaps more than 1,000 Iraqis--who dared take it on. Timid Iraqis waved cautiously from side streets, only to watch the invading forces rumble back out of the city. This was a mission not to take territory or wipe out an army but to make a point: Our tanks can penetrate your defenses at will, in broad daylight. "We drove through downtown Baghdad today," says a senior U.S. military official, "to show that we could...
...course, when you get to that point, you really don't need a popular revolt. A Shia uprising was supposed to wipe out the Baath Party and destroy any paramilitary cadres along the line of the coalition advance. American forces accomplished both of these missions. Still, the Afghanistan model called for a popular revolt, and in An Najaf last week Special Ops soldiers set out to recruit...
Today, the outcome of the war in Iraq is certain: Coalition forces will eventually destroy Saddam Hussein’s regime, wipe out Iraqi Baathism for good and liberate the country. It will be a “total” victory in every sense of the word. But even though the outcome is certain, the path to that outcome is still uncertain. The coming days may yet bring more U.S. and British casualties, particularly as Coalition forces enter Baghdad, and undoubtedly some civilians will be killed as well. Despite such tragedies, we must remember, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...backseat of president John F. Kennedy's limousine was a leather pit of horror, flecked with bits of flesh and a crust of drying blood that a grim young Secret Service agent was trying to wipe up with a sponge. He seemed hesitant, cowed by the task. On the front seat of the Lincoln lay the crushed red roses that Jackie Kennedy had been carrying. It was a certain and brutal end to a great national drama, but none of the people milling around on the driveway of Parkland Hospital that day wanted to allow the curtain to fall...
...look at the dry-wipe board in the Bright Hockey Center press box told you where the Harvard men’s hockey team stood in its quest to make a second straight NCAA tournament appearance...