ah, the old "I never REALLY said that" defense.

I guess you weren't serious in this one either oOo:

[quote:7bb6f]that whole towns population needs to be rounded up and shot in the back of the head nazi style after we burn there shit hole town down[/quote:7bb6f]


I hope you realise that Mosul is not a "town" but a major city of about a million citizens,
if the military followed your advice, the average Iraqi would (rightly so) think that the US is even worse than Saddam and that they have nothing to lose. There are enough AKs and RPGs still out there to make it very painful for us if a popular uprising takes place. We are quite lucky that so far resistance was from limited groups.

Our ONLY option now is to minimize civvie casualties and collateral damage, repair Iraq ASAP (it is imperative to restore electricity and water), and make the average Iraqi see that we are indeed better than Saddam and that they can help us make a prosperous Iraq. If we can do this we essentially take the manpower pool away from the resistance adn we win. If we follow your advice, we're fucked up teh ass with an RPG