If the effort to make Saddam Hussein lose power and face becomes too severe, the U.S. could turn his image from that of a humiliated tyrant to that of a victim of superpower bullying. The Iraqi army is in full retreat. Saddam has announced that he is ordering it out of Kuwait . Arab forces appear confused, battle-weary and leaderless. Prisoners are growing rapidly. U.S. casualties are minor; however, we still have not faced the elite Iraqi Republican Guard . The U.S. is intent on putting an end to Saddam as both a military threat and an Arab hero without making him a martyr through U.S. overkill. U.S. officials are prepared to cope with a hostile Saddam after the liberation of Kuwait but are hopeful that forces within Kuwait will topple him within months or weeks .
The Iraqi army is in full retreat. Saddam has announced that he is ordering it out of Kuwait . Arab forces appear confused, battle-weary and leaderless. Prisoners are growing rapidly. U.S. casualties are minor; however, we still have not faced the elite Iraqi Republican Guard . The U.S. is intent on putting an end to Saddam as both a military threat and an Arab hero without making him a martyr through U.S. overkill. U.S. officials are prepared to cope with a hostile Saddam after the liberation of Kuwait but are hopeful that forces within Kuwait will topple him within months or weeks .