[TexasCowboy]

"That's a damn good ratio if you ask me."

Sorry, I disagree.

You've been there and I haven't, but with the firepower we have there is no reason anyone with an RPG or mortar should have gotten that close.
We are trying soooo hard to limit collateral damage, but that's part of warfare.

[txradioguy]

"You've been there and I haven't, but with the firepower we have there is no reason anyone with an RPG or mortar should have gotten that close."

They don't have to get that close. a 60 or an 82mm mortar can be concealed in the back of a Toyota pick up and can be fired from up to a kilometer away. Safely out of the line of sight of the Marines. It's an indirect fire weapon similiar to artillery.

122mm rockets can be fire from up to 2 klicks away. Again safely out of range of our Infantry.

Thanks to the libs and the partisian press we are FORCED to limit collateral damage. IMHO there are NO real innocents where any Iraqi is concerned. Anytime Haji can be paid $50 to go hang three mortar rounds at the local coalition troops on any given night NO ONE should be treated as a non-combatant.

But unfortuneately, our ROE over there won't allow us to act that way.

[Ramius]

Where'd you get this idea that we can conduct warfare without casualties?

Wars are won by breaking the spine of the enemy before they break yours. That's when the pain of fighting will stop, and not before. Fighting wars hurts on many levels. It is an ugly business, and many many very good men will die before we are done.

We don't have to like it. But we do have to finish it.

I think it is quite possible that today is the beginning of the end for the resistance in Iraq. In a way it is the last fight in the fish when it sees the net. It's over for them, and now we're proving it to the last holdouts. At least I hope so.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I basically agree with your statement, however, I thought this was about terrorist, Al Quida, Saddam and Weapons of mass destruction? Now we are in the streets, going from town to town fighting Iraqi street gangs? It seems the goal here is becoming out of focus, blurred.

They are talking about this right now on the west coast blow torch station KFI. Many of the callers are asking the same damn thing.