The Iraqi citizens MUST understand That US forces will engage the enemy whereever they are. The safest thing they can do is to "out" the enemy when ever possible. Middle eastern thugs hiding among civilians is nothing new. Over 270 sites of mass burials have been uncovered in Iraq, many victims bound and blindfolded. US forces will engage the enemy where ever they are, civilians will get hurt. There's a contrast here, get it?
They might help, if they had good reason to believe that our presence is a war for their liberation and their self-determined sovereignty.
At this moment, that is a long stretch.
Because we have so few people in Iraq, our small numbers must take drastic action.
When we should have many, many, small patrols in the boonies, working with the locals --- boonies being the bush, as well as the tight streets.
We need a whole lot of people to cover the territory.
Iraq can neither be freed nor tamed from the turret of an M1 tank.