Reply #20: My theory: Insurgents planning rope-a-dope

[Barrett808]

Given that it will be impossible to protect 9,000 voting stations, and that US forces we be deployed extraordinarily thinly to attempt this feat anyway, I expect the insurgents will make some token attacks to fulfill delusional Rumsfeld expectations. But they will actually target US bases, maybe even the Green Zone, in a very real offensive across the country.

They know the elections are irrelevant to their purpose of outright military victory, but the election charade provides a convenient and potentially devastating distraction for US forces.

Imagine a few US firebases falling to insurgents, just as Iraqi police stations have fallen: Hundreds of US troops killed and captured, videos of GIs begging for their lives under threat of beheading or waterboarding.

Then it will be mellow.