McGrath:

It is not a given that tens upons thousands of US servcie men and women will not be killed. Should, the US be incorrect that the Iraqi people will rise up against Saddam, and the Iraqi armies pack into the population centers, there could very well be massave American casualties. And urban street fight, with the Iraqi army holed up and mixed in apartment buildings with civilians could present a nightmare from the perspective of military science. If that occurs, the US will loose this war either from just loosing the stomach for it as thousands of Amercian kids are killed or from the massive counter-reaction of a world watching nightly TV clips of Iraqi women and children dead.

Bobert