Reuters seems to be doing one of the better jobs reporting the war, unlike the CNN and Fox News embedded propagandists. This Reuters report portends a much longer and more difficult war than many had predicted.
Avoiding Big Pitched Battles, Iraqis Slow Advance
DOHA, Qatar (Reuters) - Iraqi forces apparently operating in small pockets or hit-and-run raids held up the U.S.-led advance into Iraq in at least four places on Sunday and captured their first U.S. prisoners on the fourth day of the war...
In Kuwait, former oil minister Ali al-Baghli, a Shi'ite, said he suspected the time taken to capture Umm Qasr might undermine any faith ordinary Iraqis had that the Americans had the ability to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The picture, despite some Iraqi surrenders, was of a more spirited fight by Iraq's troops than some analysts had predicted, slowing the invading forces' sweep from Kuwait through southern Iraq toward Baghdad.
"We are astonished that there is still resistance in Umm Qasr after all this time. It is a very small place.
"If it takes them this long to capture Umm Qasr, how long will it take to capture Tikrit or Baghdad?"
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