FWIW, we're all ignorant of what's really going on. The Marines do not release details very readily, and we have no idea how many casualties are being suffered, nor do we have much info about what our side is using or doing in the fighting.
The last thing we need is for people on this thread to run around screaming and waving our arms about PC, butt-kicking, and all manner of crap.
It would behoove you to recall that it is U.S. Marines who are engaged in battle. They are Bad-Ass Mother F***ers who know very well how to obliterate the bad guys.
Calm down, and have faith in our fine troops.
Put Saddam back in power and after he fills a couple hundred more mass graves with those criminals they can start wailing and crying again for liberation. What a laugh we will have then. Then they can shove their filthy Hawza and marji'iya up somewhere else.I am so dissapointed in Iraqis and I hate myself for thinking this way. We are not worth your trouble, take back your billions of dollars and give us Saddam again. We truly 'deserve' leaders like Saddam.