How wacky is this?
Michael Wilson in the NY Times - Marines Ponder Reports of Iraqis' Premature Surrender:

WITH MARINE TASK FORCE TARAWA, west of Amara, Iraq, April 8 ? If enemy troops decided to give up, but there was no opposing force to surrender to, did it really happen?

A group of Marine battalions from Task Force Tarawa swung east today toward Amara, near the Iranian border, to confront the 10th Armored Division of the Iraqi Army and determine whether it intended to surrender.

But on the initial approach to the city, there was no Iraqi division to be found.

"Apparently the 10th Armored capitulated yesterday, but they didn't have anybody to capitulate to," Lt. Col. Glenn Starnes of a Marine artillery battalion said. "The locals around there are saying they stacked their weapons, parked their vehicles and walked away. Right now, there is no enemy that we know of."

Of course there's this too (hat tip: The Command Post) from Juan Tomayo for Knight-Ridder - Iraqi military commanders unaware of location of U.S. troops:

Maj. Gen. Sufian al Tikriti left Baghdad on Sunday in a white Toyota sedan, in uniform and alone except for a chauffeur.

Just outside the city, the Republican Guard general came upon a Marine Corps roadblock, where he died.

His sudden death, and a great deal of other evidence, suggests how little Iraq's military knows about the whereabouts and movements of the U.S. and British soldiers who invaded their country three weeks ago.

"I think they are basically clueless," said a senior officer of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF).

But then there are the rabid thugs and terrorists Saddam has been supporting for years. John Keegan provides a fine analysis of the oddities of Saddam's armed forces.