War plan calls for up to a quarter million troops - Will you answer the call?

[Is Don on the phone?]

The Times reported that Saddam is preparing thousands of civilian volunteers to fill "martyrs' brigades" and sacrifice their lives to bombs and advancing troops. Some of these volunteers would hope to slow the American-led offensive by acting as suicide bombers or fighting in neighborhood defense squads, but their true strategic goal would be to generate anti-American feelings in the region.

As if we needed hordes of dead Iraqis to generate anti-American feelings in the region.