content: Bluster. Cointel sealed the deal - imagine your personal cell phone getting a call letting you know how accurately we knew your position and the compliment of your unit - then offering you the chance to walk away. You have lost communication with your own commanders and half your subordinates. an 8th of them are dead Already (from hellfire missiles and 'other' things that came from outside your country) and the rest are just gone because network switches just stopped working. A few crucial network cables have been hit. The sky is still blue outside and you don't even see any smoke. Just walk out - allow the transition to happen and you can sign up for the new army when Saddam is gone.  What happened subsequently was for the television (mainly gung-ho Americans with nuclear hard-ons). It was also to allow soldier dogs like Stormin' Norman and his men to stretch their legs, dust off their artillery, zero their scopes and learn the limits of their field batteries. (as in radio power supplies) But when you let battle monkeys loose - they cause more mayhem than the scope of their task (Highway to Hell). And then instead of celebrating their easy win - those poor cointel guys have a new war to fight with the remnants of American media who still believe in the 4th Estate. (Now better considered part of the 5th Column)