[Iscool]

I don't think they expected us to respond with the kind of force that we did," said Lopez, 40, of Chicago.

I'm as surprised as they were...I didn't think they could suck the U.S. Marines into such a trap...Started at 8 am...No air support til 4 pm...What's up with that??? No tanks to take out the sniper nests (houses)??? I know it's easy to be an armchair General but still, something doesn't seem right here...

[oceanview]

i don't understand that aspect of it either. I mean, I can understand why B52 strikes aren't being called in, but where are the helicopters, the A10s, the close air support stuff.