[technomage]

Damn it!!

It is time to get serious there. Let our military do it's damn job W!!!

This is eerily similar to Nam in one respect: Politics is getting our men and women killed, and coalition partners men and women killed.

You cannot have a successful politically correct war!!!! Do what needs to be done to WIN and deal with the political consequences later!!!

[SouthernFreebird]

18 and they're ready to bug out???

[Ciexyz]

Kudos to our Italian friends for holding strong. Unfortunately, they also find that they're being blackmailed by Al Qaeda with the threat of future terrorism at home. We can say "Grazie" that the Italian nation is making a contribution to the development of a new and free Iraq.

[Let's Roll]

Of course it triggered calls for the return of their troops - that's why it was done.

[Cicero]

Since the U.S. barracks was blown up in Beirut many years ago, this has been an obvious thing to watch out for.

There shouldn't have been any way for a large truck to get near a barracks, IMHO.

[SandRat]

6 will get you 10 that the clamor is coming from the Italian Communist Party.

[PoorMuttly]

Fight ON !

[Polybius]

The killing of at least 18 Italians in the worst attack against the Italian military since World War II on Wednesday provoked a furious reaction from opposition parties, who demanded that Italian troops be brought home even as the government insisted they would stay on.

That's all it takes for a Western nation to lose a war to a handful of men...............A loss of national will fueld by that nation's political opposition party.

[pfflier]

This precisely what the terrorists want. They commit some vile deed then rush to CNN eagerly awaiting the real-time recon. The press is handing them the PR and the info they need to continue like an after action report.

This is WWIII and this behavior would have been unthinkable in WWII, but then they had FDR, not a "damned Republican" in the Whitehouse.