The 300-mile coalition advance to the outskirts of Baghdad in not even five days of ground war was arguably the fastest in military history.
In that time, coalition forces secured all of Iraq's southern oil fields. The 500 oil-well fires many feared were contained to less than a dozen. The massive oil spill into the Gulf, planned by Saddam Hussein, was foiled. The missile launchers in Western Iraq, which could have ignited a disastrous war with Israel, were taken out of commission. Strategically vital cities, including Umm Qasr and Basra, were contained or captured.
There is every reason to believe that we are killing at least 100 enemy soldiers for one American life lost. Thousands of precision-guided bombs were sent into Baghdad -- attacks so accurate that even the Iraqis set civilian casualties at about 200.
It smells like. . . like. . . (Takes deep Breath) Victory.
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