"People say to me, ‘You are not the Vietnamese. You have no jungles and swamps,’ " Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is quoted as telling a University of Warwick researcher six months ago. "I reply, ‘Let our cities be our swamps and our buildings our jungles.”’
How did the sands of the Iraqi desert turn so suddenly into a quagmire? How did an Iraqi military that we pictured in fixed positions on Kuwaiti border or arrayed along "highways of death" (as in 1991) awaiting incineration by Apache helicopters and F-16s suddenly morph into an incipient guerrilla force?
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