The conflict in Iraq is beginning to turn into an all out, rough and tumble war now...so much for shock and awe the first night, I'm getting day it day 4 or 5...mostly because although one Iraqi division surrendered, the whole campaign was moving much too swiftly and easily to be believed. The port town of Umm Qsar that supposedly fell Saturday has apparently done nothing of the such (although Marines have eliminated a pocket of strong resistance near port facilities) and heavy fighting is being reported in Nasiriya...although Basra is encircled and troops are rushing toward Baghdad....I suspect by Wednesday the rose colored glasses will come off...we will be bogged down in urban warfare, making Somolia and Bosnia look relatively tame by comparsion.