By March 22, 2003, “the 3rd Infantry Division was 150 miles into Iraq, and Saddam’s army was either being defeated or dissolving. …Unprotected Iraqi civilian fighters were throwing themselves on armored formations. Mostly, they were being slaughtered. …[Army Major General James] Spider Marks concluded that Saddam loyalists were pointing guns at the civilians’ backs: You either attack the Americans or you die right here. The Iraqi people were simply and deeply fearful.”
– Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 152